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The Thorn and the Oak Are Friends I was reading the summer edition of The Irish Garden recently when I came across a feature written by Colin Stafford-Johnson. Many people will know him from The Wild Gardener, in which he returned to his childhood garden and began creating a place for native plants and wildlife. In the feature, he mentioned an old Irish saying: the thorn and the oak are friends.