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Author Message   Sheilak  My Weather Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 04:21 pm EST :    Someone has offered to give me some Hawthorn trees. I wasnt sure what they were so Ive done some googling...the flowers are beautiful! Does anyone here have them? Do you love them, hate them??? Any reason why they wouldnt make a good addition? Thanks Sheila Sheilak - PA, Zone "5 and 6"   Treelover  My Favorite Photo My Garden Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 05:35 pm EST :    Hawthorn come in many forms,but a popular one has tight double pink red flowers(Paul's Scarlet) and attains the height of a typical park tree,nothing too big,ideal for gardens. They're usually grafted onto hardy stock though which means you may get suckers of the stock growing around the base-they need to be removed. The wild Hawthorn,or Maythorn( Crataegus monogyna) attains a similar height but has single white flowers,a lovely smell of spring but is of an untidy habit. They generally start off as a bush,and can be kept that way,or grown clipped as a hedge,but if left to their own devices will attain tree status but don't have the nice clean profile you get from a park tree,hence the fancy cultivars! I like em both but would have a wild one for the harbinger of spring flowers and the berries for the birds. Watch out for the thorns that give them their name(tho some in the genus Crataegus don't have any). Treelover - County Durham,UK, Zone "8/9"   Kniphofia  Supporting Member My Favorite Photo My Garden Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 11:27 pm EST :    The US cultivars available may not include our common May. But I had Crimson Scarlet in my Maine garden and loved it. I remember a hawthorn at the bottom of my garden in Yorkshire and can honestly say that it was beautiful every day of the year. One of my favourite trees. I'd grab your friend's offer with both hands! Kniphofia - Northumberland, Zone "7"   Treelover  My Favorite Photo My Garden Posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 - 04:07 am EST :    Here's how our native Hawthorn usually looks. Like me, scruffy but useful ;) (there's Elder(Sambucus) mixed in with that too) Treelover - County Durham,UK, Zone "8/9"   Kniphofia  Supporting Member My Favorite Photo My Garden Posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 - 12:13 pm EST :    Here's a hawthorn with berries I saw yesterday going up to Kielder. Kniphofia - Northumberland, Zone "7"

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