Your description of rowan trees in winter is simply magic! You're absolutely right it's a unique sight!
As for making some use of the rowan berries, vodka is also the most popular. We call it Rowan Cognac. It tastes very delicious. I haven't heard about making jam, I'll ask some people, maybe they know something about it. I think it tastes great with roasted meat.
Yes, this rowan tree is endeed execptionally large, that's why I took the pains to take a photo of it.
In winter the rowan trees really look marvelous. All leaves gone only bunches of burning-red [as u rightly said] berries topped with white, fresh snow...unique sight, indeed, especially when the snow is half-way up the tree trunk.
Do you make any use of the rowan berries. Here, besides making delicious vodka, some people also make jam [konfitury] and serve with roasted meat.
A wonderful view! This rowan is rather huge and looks really impressive! The rowans in my region are smaller. I enjoy looking at them in late autumn when all other trees are bare and only rowans are so beautiful with their burning-red berries!
Well...birds eat them and the Poles make rowan vokda, also called Polish Cognac. The berries are ready to be eaten or processed after the first frost, then they are sweet and soft...migrating birds love them, our native birds look at them with disgust.
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Maybe the beautifullest rowan tree i ever seen!
Hi, Rys!
Your description of rowan trees in winter is simply magic! You're absolutely right it's a unique sight!
As for making some use of the rowan berries, vodka is also the most popular. We call it Rowan Cognac. It tastes very delicious. I haven't heard about making jam, I'll ask some people, maybe they know something about it. I think it tastes great with roasted meat.
Oi Galina,
Yes, this rowan tree is endeed execptionally large, that's why I took the pains to take a photo of it.
In winter the rowan trees really look marvelous. All leaves gone only bunches of burning-red [as u rightly said] berries topped with white, fresh snow...unique sight, indeed, especially when the snow is half-way up the tree trunk.
Do you make any use of the rowan berries. Here, besides making delicious vodka, some people also make jam [konfitury] and serve with roasted meat.
A wonderful view! This rowan is rather huge and looks really impressive! The rowans in my region are smaller. I enjoy looking at them in late autumn when all other trees are bare and only rowans are so beautiful with their burning-red berries!
So the native birds only love the rowan vodka? LOL :-P
Oi Noa,
Well...birds eat them and the Poles make rowan vokda, also called Polish Cognac. The berries are ready to be eaten or processed after the first frost, then they are sweet and soft...migrating birds love them, our native birds look at them with disgust.
I never know a rowan tree. Is the berry edible?