Bird charmer in full bloom
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Rowan
Rowan; mountain ash Harilik pihlakas
At the moment though mostly pollinators are attracted. To many people the bunches of rowan flowers don’t smell very pleasantly, but tastes differ and rowans with a sea of flowers look magnificent.
All know the rowan leaves, with their leaflets in an odd-pinnate or feather-like arrangement. The leaves are about twenty centimetres long, with eleven to fifteen leaflets whose undersides still have a velvety fur at the flowering time.
The undemanding but light-loving trees don’t bother about soil fertility – they often grow on pebbly islets as the only tree or shrub, and who else has brought the rowan berries there in their bellies but birds.
Such seeds that have passed the gut, and with a supply of fertilizer, will by the way grow better than fruits that have spilled from a bird’s beak or from the trees. In Estonia there are at least three Pihlalaidu, „Rowan islets“...
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