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Celtic Rowan Art, Folklore & Meaning

14/1/2021

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Beautiful Celtic Rowan art prints and products with optional Celtic Tree Calendar version and a look at rowan history, folklore and meaning...
Celtic Rowan art by Lotti Brown
Celtic Rowan art
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The beautiful rowan is one of our most beautiful and colourful trees – with frothy white blossoms in spring, delicate feathered leaves, and colourful red autumn berries.

It’s also traditionally considered as one of most magical trees!

The name ‘rowan’ is thought to come from the Gaelic word ‘rudhan’ meaning ‘the red one’ – and/or the Norse ‘run’ meaning ‘rune’, ‘a secret spell or charm’.

The Gaelic ogham for rowan is ‘luis’ meaning ‘flame’, ‘herb’ or ‘great many’.

Celtic Tree Calendar rowan art - 21 January to 7 February
Celtic Tree Calendar version - 21 January to 17 February
Rowan - Celtic Tree Calendar version prints & products

We’ll look at some more common names for the rowan, together with their folklore and meaning in a little while, too…
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Celtic Birch Art, Folklore & Meaning

17/12/2020

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Celtic birch art with a Celtic Tree Calendar version available - plus a look at the folklore, history and meaning of the birch tree...
Celtic birch tree art
Celtic birch tree art
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​Birch is one of our most beautiful native British trees and one of the most mystical!

Birch is often seen as a ‘pioneer tree’...

It was the first tree to start to recolonise the land after the last Ice Age and is, even now, often the first to start to grow on cleared lands or wastelands...

And it provides nourishment for the plants and trees that come after to allow the natural ecosystem to regrow.

​Because of this, birch is often associated with renewal and new beginnings.
Celtic Tree Calendar art - birch - 24 December to 20 January
Celtic tree calendar art - birch - 24 December to 20 January
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Nature Lover Gift Ideas

20/11/2020

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Nature lover gift ideas for friends and family who love nature, plants, trees, flowers, wildlife and birds.

Give the gift of nature and inspire a love of our natural world with these pretty and colourful nature lover goodies...
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Ornamental Tree Hangings

Ideal Christmas decor or a Christmas stocking-filler gift...
Ornamental tree hangings
Ornamental tree hangings
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Beautiful ceramic ornamental hangings for tree, wall, doors, and more - makes an excellent stocking filler or gift for a friend...
  • printed both sides
  • comes with a red ribbon
  • optional gift pouch available
Holly and ivy tree hangings
Holly & ivy nature tree hangings
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Celtic Elder Art & Folklore

18/11/2020

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Celtic elder art and tree calendar art - plus a dive into the folklore, history and meaning of the elder tree...
Celtic elder art
Celtic elder art
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Elder is one of our smaller hedgerow trees, growing wild in many places and self-seeding often.

It’s a tree that humans have used for thousands of years - and has a lot of folklore and superstition attached to it…

It’s thought that the name ‘elder’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon words ‘ellaern’ meaning ‘hollow tree’ and/or ‘aeld’ meaning fire, as the hollow twigs were used to spark a fire into life by blowing air into it.
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The Anglo-Saxons also used the words ‘eller’ and ‘kindler’ to refer to the wood of the elder, so we can see how the word ‘elder’ started to evolve.
Celtic tree calendar art - elder
Celtic Tree Calendar version --- 24 Nov - 23 Dec
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Elder

Celtic Tree Calendar: 24 November to 23 December​
  • Latin name: Sambucus nigra
  • Irish/Gaelic name: Ruis
  • Common names: Ellhorn, Lady Ellhorn, Hylder, Alhuren, Eldrum, pipe tree, sweet elder
  • Language of Flowers meaning: zealousness
  • Qualities: regeneration, fertility, healing, otherworld, balance, wisdom, knowledge, calm, winter, witches, wise women, cooling, fairies, crone goddess,
  • Associations: Elder Mother, Lady Elder, Lady Ellhorn, Holda, Cailleach

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Celtic Fern Art & Fern Folklore

26/10/2020

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Celtic fern art prints and products (also with a Celtic tree calendar version) - plus a look at fern folklore...
Celtic Fern Art Prints
Celtic Fern Art
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The fern is one of our oldest surviving plants...

​Ferns were around even before the dinosaurs and date from the Mesozoic era (at least 66 million years ago).

The most common British wild ferns are:
  • Male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
  • Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)

​But there are over 40 wild fern species including the Maidenhair fern and the Moonwort fern...
Celtic Tree Calendar art - fern
Celtic tree calendar art - fern - 28 October to 23 November
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Fern

Celtic Tree Calendar: 28 October to 23 November
  • Latin name: Dryopteris, Pteridium, and others
  • Irish/Gaelic name: Ngetal
  • Common names: adder's spit, adder's tongue, great fern, snake fern, basket fern, dead man's hands, lucky hands, St. John's hands
  • Language of Flowers meaning: sincerity (flowering fern meaning: fascination)
  • Qualities: magical, invisibility, healing, perpetual youth
  • Associations: invisibility, buried treasure, St. John,

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Celtic Ivy Art & Ivy Symbolism

28/9/2020

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My Celtic Ivy art - plus I explore the ivy symbolism, stories, myth, meaning and folklore that's shaped the way we understand ivy today...
Celtic Ivy artwork by Lotti Brown
Celtic Ivy art by Lotti Brown
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The beautiful ivy is an ancient, native British plant and is far more than that shady creeper that’s often overlooked while it’s steadily colonising the quiet places...

Those walls, hedges, tree trunks that thrive with life while we’re looking the other way…

Like bramble ivy may not, strictly speaking, be considered a tree – but, like bramble, the ivy is part of the delicate ecosystem of trees – reaching into hedgerows, twining around trees to provide shelter and sustenance for animals, birds, and insects...
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Celtic Tree Calendar Ivy art by Lotti Brown
Celtic Tree Calendar version for the month of ivy - 30 September to 27 October
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And climbing walls and buildings where, far from common misconceptions, it actually seems to prove beneficial keeping buildings dry and warm in the winter and cool in the summer – and it’s certainly seen as very lucky to have ivy covering your home!

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Celtic Hazel Art & Hazel Meaning

4/8/2020

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My beautiful Celtic Hazel artwork - part of my Celtic Tree Calendar collection - plus I take a deeper dive into hazel folklore, history, tales and hazel meaning...
Celtic Hazel artwork by Lotti Brown
Celtic Hazel art by Lotti Brown
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​The hazel is a small tree, most often seen in hedgerows these days, and much different in stature than a mighty oak...

But in its own way, no less important!

Hazel has been an extremely important tree for hundreds of not thousands of years...

And has been of great use to humans...

Let's explore our human history of the hazel...

​Our stories, beliefs, folkores and more...
Hazel - Celtic Tree Calendar art
Also available in a Celtic Tree Calendar version with dates for the hazel month 5 August to 1 September
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Celtic Holly Art - Holly Meaning & Symbolism

7/7/2020

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My Celtic Holly art - plus a look at holly folklore, tales, meaning & symbolism...
Celtic Holly artwork by Lotti Brown
Celtic Holly artwork by Lotti Brown
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​For many of us in the Western world, the holly is a tree with associations with Christmas.

And it’s true that the holly does come to the fore at this time of year...

​And traditionally it has very important associations with midwinter.

But holly is not just for Christmas!

And we’ll see how, in years past, the holly played an important role in our society at all times of the year...
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Holly art - Celtic Tree Calendar version with dates 8 July to 4 August
Holly art - Celtic Tree Calendar version with dates 8 July to 4 August
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The Celtic Tree Calendar

30/6/2020

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What is the Celtic Tree Calendar? 
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  • It’s a celebration of a year of trees - a calendar idea that allocates a tree to a month (or period of time) similar to the zodiac idea that we’re all familiar with.

  • The months are actually based around lunar months of 28 days so there are 13 months and 13 corresponding trees in each year.​
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  • The Celtic Tree Calendar that’s widely used is based on Robert Graves’ idea of a Celtic Tree Calendar put forward in his book ‘The White Goddess’.
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Celtic tree artwork
Celtic Tree artwork - click here to see...
The Celtic Tree Calendar is actually a beautiful idea – focusing our attention on our different trees and appreciating their beauty as well as their natural history and the parts they’ve played in our own social and cultural story…

I love the idea and I’ve based my latest Celtic Tree Project around the 13 tree months – although I also intend including other favourite trees later (so hopefully your own favourite tree will be there before too long, as well…).

​I'll show you my Celtic Tree Calendar artworks project at the end of the post (or you can scroll down now if you can't wait!!)...

It’s certainly a wonderful idea and it’s really captured the public imagination. I think it’s a great way for us all to feel more connected with nature…
Celtic Tree Calendar - celebrating a year of trees
Celebrating trees - the Celtic Tree Calendar

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Celtic Oak Art - Oak Meaning & Symbolism

9/6/2020

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My Celtic oak art – plus oak meaning, symbolism, myth and stories…
Celtic oak art by Lotti Brown
Celtic Oak artwork by Lotti Brown
Celtic Oak Art (standard version)
Oak Celtic Tree Calendar art 10 June to 7 July
Celtic Tree Calendar Oak Artwork by Lotti Brown
Oak Art - Celtic Tree Calendar Version
The oak is traditionally seen as the ‘King of the Forest’ or the ‘Father of Trees’. It’s a native British tree that at one time was incredibly widespread – in the time of King Henry VIII one third of Britain was covered in oak forests.

The trees are slow growing - producing hard, valuable timber – and can live to over 700 years old, sometimes 1000 years or more.
We have two native oak trees in Britain – the English Oak (Quercus robur) and the Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea).

These are very similar.
The main differences are:


English Oak:
Acorns grow on stalks
Leaves do not
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Sessile Oak:
Leaves grow on stalks
Acorns do not
The oak is called ‘a garden and a country’ as it provides a whole ecosystem of life from small ferns and other plants growing in its nooks and crannies to fungi, lichen and (rarely) mistletoe – as well as being home to numerous insects, birds, and even small mammals.
An oak tree is a whole ecosystem
An oak tree is a whole ecosystem
Acorns are said to be ‘man’s first food’ in the legends of several different cultures – and humans have used this tree for building, furniture, healing, and food, as well as the tree having symbolic, social, and cultural importance throughout the ages.

Let’s explore our relationship with the oak tree…

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