Rowan Pomes

Back to school so was looking in the garden for today's blip - noticed the rowan tree has fruit on it. Apparently not berries but pomes...

In Scotland, the rowan was often planted at the gable end of a house to protect the occupants from bad luck; many old croft-houses have their gnarled old rowan tree still standing sentinel over the ruins...it may have been to do with keeping a ready source of berries nearby for making rowan berry jelly...a good source of vitamin C in the dark, lean winter months. This rowan tree is at the gable end of our house.