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Bilberry bushes

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  • 22-06-2021 10:57pm
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    MeadowMaker
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    Restoring some meadows and currently cutting back gorse on old stone walls to expose some bilberry bushes

    I read on these bilberry bushes and how in old times the berries were a prized berry and often were exported to France,

    Does anyone know if the bushes on old hedgerows were planted or just came about naturally?


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    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,239 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    MeadowMaker wrote: »
    Restoring some meadows and currently cutting back gorse on old stone walls to expose some bilberry bushes

    I read on these bilberry bushes and how in old times the berries were a prized berry and often were exported to France,

    Does anyone know if the bushes on old hedgerows were planted or just came about naturally?

    They are a native plant but grow in boggy ground I the wild.

    If the ditch is good, they may well have been planted. I've never seen them outside the bog


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    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Danzy wrote: »
    They are a native plant but grow in boggy ground I the wild.

    If the ditch is good, they may well have been planted. I've never seen them outside the bog

    Funny, we would have them down here in ditches. I have never seen them anywhere else only ditches :)

    Afraid I can’t say if they were planted or not. I have a feeling that weren’t planted though...


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    Freejin
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    Think we know them as Hurts around here. Would see them on ditches,never in bogs


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    Feisar
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    We had them along a drop beside a bog and by bog I mean an old disused bog that was only ever hand cut on. Used to mash them up with a bit of sugar and slather them all over my Granmother's soda bread. Jaysus that's taking me back.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Freejin wrote: »
    Think we know them as Hurts around here. Would see them on ditches,never in bogs

    ha, we used to call them hurts as well - where abouts are you, as a mater of interest?
    I'm in Cork, wondering if they were called hurts elsewhere...


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    _Brian
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    We have them here locally on the bog on the mountain.
    There was a hotel locally called The Bilberry and a festival on the Mountain.


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    Freejin
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭Freejin


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    ha, we used to call them hurts as well - where abouts are you, as a mater of interest?
    I'm in Cork, wondering if they were called hurts elsewhere...

    Cork as well!


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