"K" wrote in message
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Des Higgins writes
Hawthorn is a bit prickly but is native and birds like it; it has nice
flowers and fruits (again for de birds);

Not much of either if clipped as a hedge

it is fairly slow growing but maybe a bit hard to keep neat?

About 2 ft a year. The real pain is not the clipping but the collection of
all the bits - they are vicious things to come across while weeding or
walking bare foot.

Last house we were in we had 60 feet of Pyracantha so after that, the 60
feet of hawthorn we also had was tame and cuddly but I take yer point (very
prickly stuff).

Des




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Kay