| The country people were shunning the fruit because flies, which settled on dead rabbits with myxomatosis, also alighted on brambles. |
| In medieval times it was the belief that Jesus crown of thorns was blackberry brambles. |
| But this was fuchsia, big as you please, escaped from Irish gardens to the roadsides to intertwine with native brambles in tangled hedgerows. |
| To the right is a wilderness, abandoned to brambles, ground elder, bindweed and buddleia. |
| The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees. |
| To confirm his thoughts, a stag passed by the clearing in which the pine stood, and was caught by its antlers in thick brambles. |
