Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna
Hawthorn is a traditional, classic, deciduous British native hedge.

Soils

Hawthorn can grow on most soil types as long as they are moist and well-drained. Sensitive to salt.

Location

Hawthorn is tolerant of heat and is also frost hardy.

Annual Growth Rate

Hawthorn growth rate is 15-25cm a year

pH TOLERANCE

Hawthorn will grow in slightly acidic to alkaline soils.

Root Structure

Hawthorn has very hard roots that are deep and wide spreading.

Potential

As a hedge, hawthorn is impregnable and makes an excellent security barrier. It is ideal for roadside boundaries and natural landscape projects.

Annual Trimming

Tip: Always make a final trim of hawthorn hedge in the autumn.

Characteristics

When travelling through the British countryside, the roadside hedges will almost certainly be hawthorn or a plant mixture which includes hawthorn.

Hawthorn hedges have been historically used by landowners and farmers for centuries to create dense, thorny branched boundaries to their fields and properties.

Hawthorn is fast growing, hardy and undemanding and adaptable to almost any soil type and location, inland and coastal.

Hawthorn produce masses of beautiful fragrant white blossom in May

Tip: Hawthorn are horse friendly hedges and can therefore be used in paddocks for the containment of livestock.

Price & Availability

Season

Spring - Summer

Instant Hedge

Pricing

1.2m –

1.5m –

1.8m –

2.0m –

Hedge Elements

Pricing

1.2m –

1.5m –

1.8m –

2.0m –

2.5m –

3.0m – 6.0m+ –

Hedge Plants

Pricing

0.8m –

1.2m –

1.5m –

1.8m –

2.0m –

2.5m –

3.0m – 6.0m+ –

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