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Recent Examples of wildwoodRight until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began:
There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
This tree is notorious for being highly invasive, often cross-pollinating with other pear varieties, resulting in dense, thorny thickets that disrupt local ecosystems.
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SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
29 Apr. 2026
Its large, thorny stems creep out from the base of the plant to form a thicket.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Apr. 2026