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Lyndylu25Lyndylu25 Posts: 13
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Our wonderful Hawthorn. I know it has been growing here for the last 55 years at least. I know it was cut back about 40 years ago. It's a haven for the birds. It makes my heart sing. It's between terraced back to back houses. I just hope no one ever cuts it down. 

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  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Wow!
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Stunning - my fave native tree.
    Pretty leaves, beautiful scented flowers, bright red berries and beautiful autumn foliage.
    I love em

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Love the look of hawthorn and there are some large specimens around us but I dont find the scent appealing.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    I love the heady scent of 'May' as we use to call it when I was young. 
  • lilysillylilysilly Posts: 511
    That's a lovely tree. I love them too but they don't smell nice to me. We have loads around here and the air becomes very pungent. I'm sure I read somewhere that the blossom smells rather like decomposing animal flesh. 
    Do all Hawthorne trees have the same scent as the wild variety?
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    That's a beauty
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Lyndylu25Lyndylu25 Posts: 13
    Thank you, I love it. I love it anytime of year, but I especially look forward to it blossoming in the spring. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I love it, the blossom, the perfume, the berries, the shape ... and the part it plays in shaping our traditional rural environment, from huge blowsy pillowy trees to neatly laid stock proof hedges and all the permutations in between ... and of course it’s massive contribution to our wildlife ... sit by a hawthorn full of blossom and listen to the hum of bees, then in the winter it’s covered with visiting waxwings, stripping all the berries. 

    On top of all that spare a thought for hay fever sufferers ... family legend has it that in 1950 Pa passed a hawthorn in full blossom on a sunny day in May ... he sneezed and spent the next three days in hospital with concussion 😱

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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