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Flower |
Foliage |
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Plant Name Click to Exit to Comparison Page or or link to |
Crataegus monogyna from Rosaceae Family |
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Common Name |
Common Hawthorn (Syn. May, Quick, Quickthorn) |
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Soil |
Any soil except waterlogged |
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Sun Aspect |
Full Sun or Part Shade |
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Soil Moisture |
Moist |
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Plant Type |
Rounded Deciduous Tree |
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Height x Spread in feet |
30 x 25 |
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Foliage |
Glossy dark green above and paler beneath with numerous thorns on the branches |
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Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit |
Fragrant White in May followed by spherical, glossy, dark Red Haws |
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Comment |
Rounded to broadly spreading form. Pruning Group 1. Trim hedge after flowering or in Autumn. This and other cultivars are available from Coblands Nurseries Ltd, Hedges Direct and Palmstead Nurseries Ltd. Hedges Direct is completely dedicated to hedges - in all sizes from 30cm to 3m - growing and selling bare root hedging, cell grown plants, pot grown shrubs or root ball plants, which are evergreen or deciduous. |
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Flowers from Hothfield on 18 May |
Single Leaf from Cuxton in Kent on 10 September |
Fruit from Cuxton in Kent on 10 September |
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Hedge |
Hedge |
Hedge in North Yorkshire in June |
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