From a distance, the clusters of bright orange berries on these trees, scattered throughout my neighbourhood, look like miniature jack-o-lanterns or plastic candy buckets.
Apparently, what I call a Mountain Ash is also known as a Rowan Tree. Or a Whispering Tree. Witchwood. Witchbane. Witchen. To name just a few. According to folklore, this was the tree on which the Devil hanged his mother. It was also kept in houses to guard against lightning and planted on graves to keep the deceased from haunting and used to protect against assorted types of evil.
A Halloween tree on so many levels.
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