Word Finder - brambles

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Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.

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Any thorny shrub.

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A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

He didn't see his path or notice the brambles snagging his clothing.

Brambles provide food for people as well as for wildlife.

Like some other Brambles, this grows well in partial shade.

Having reached the soil, the tips there form curious thickened ends similar to those so frequent in wild British Brambles, and, taking root, form new plants.

The Danes then left the area, flinging Edmund's head into thick brambles nearby.

Last night I picked a whole box of blackberries from the wild brambles that grow over the hedge.

Links to photographs of your efforts are also very welcome, even piccies of dead brambles.

The ubiquitous brambles have spread thickly along the top.

Pegasus can be used for breaking up the soil or clearing brambles and nettles.

The thick brambles cling to the site of the YMCA halt platform, a wooden contraption which has left absolutely no trace behind.

The new European rules primarily ban lawn treatments which kill dandelions, nettles and brambles.

Other shrubs include wild honeysuckle, brambles and holly The animals that live here include spiders, caterpillars and butterflies.

The route was illegally obstructed and overgrown with brambles and other vegetation.

They filled the gap from the autumn brambles and damsons to the early rhubarb in spring and cooking varieties were the most valued.

In summer he used a scythe to keep the ditches and banks clear of brambles and grass.

A young WREN was calling somewhere amidst the thick tangle of BRAMBLES.

Nest in dense reeds, tangled brambles or tall grass tussocks.

Above-left we see the aforementioned gates and the thicket of brambles now serving to further protect the entrance to the bridge.

Commonly called raspberries, brambles plants are deciduous or semi-evergreen, trailing and often prickly shrubs which form a complex group known as Rubus fruticosus.

Brambles are found throughout the British Isles and some of the species from America and its habitats are woods, scrub, hedgerows, heaths, waste ground, and banks.

Brambles grow best in a wide range of soils but do best when planted on well-drained, deep, fertile soil that is high in humus . It requires full sunlight.

Brambles, are fairly drought-tolerant and are sometimes grown without supplemental irrigation.

Among the best native Brambles are the beautiful double varieties of R. fructicosus, which flower late in summer.

Some of these cover the earth in many gardens with Roses that are little better than Brambles.

The full-bodied wine begins slightly tight but then opens up, offering a round, well-balanced mouth of ripe berries, brambles, pepper, and a hint tobacco.

The wine opens quickly with an opulent perfume of ripe cherry fruit, a floral bouquet and earthy brambles.

There's a good dose of strawberry, cherry, and dark berry flavors that is supplemented with cinnamon spice, pepper, brambles and oak essence.

The palate is cheered by strawberry and raspberry flavors compounded with violets, brambles, and a tweak of toasted oak.

The nest is usually made of honeysuckle bark, often in brambles.

I t was also reported that overgrown brambles and hedges were also a problem on the roadside.

Meet Howard at the motorway bridge where he is cutting back brambles.

Work involves helping with the animals, hedging, fencing, clearing brambles & bracken.

Can you recommend the best way to remove brambles which are growing in with a box privet hedge please?

The area was characterized by thickets of scrub and brambles, interspersed with open glades.

Katie was close.  Toby could sense her.  He ignored the branches whipping his face and the brambles tripping him.  Instead, he just ran, the screams of demons in his ears.

Katie started in the direction of the woman's voice.  She stumbled over fallen, slick wood and brambles she couldn't see.  Whatever magic that had cleared a path for her was gone.  She struggled through the jungle before calling out, "Can you hear me?  I can't see much.  You'll have to say something, so I can find you."

It is a matter of familiar observation that the ends of the shoots of brambles take root when bent down to the ground.

The occurrence of hybrids in nature explains the difficulty experienced by botanists in deciding on what is a species, and the widely different limitations of the term adopted by different observers in the case of willows, roses, brambles, &c. The artificial process is practically the same in hybridization as in cross-fertilization, but usually requires more care.