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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.




God, not half !

They puncture bicycle tyres and they are lethal if you want to pick them
up, though I shred mine quite easily. They are a good security hedge and
fairly free of diseases.

Nightmare to put wire netting along the bottom as the dogs can get
through to next door if they feel so inclined, even with the thorns!


Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk