Thread: Help - choosing a tree for my back garden
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Old 27-02-2012, 08:49 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Help - choosing a tree for my back garden
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Plain old hawthorn can make a very beautiful and reliable tree,
interesting all year round ands submits to any amount or pruning and
shaping. If you want to push the boat out get one of the fancier
species with bigger berries, like Crataegus orientalis.

Thanks for this suggestion. I was unaware of the Crataegus orientalis
variety. Very pretty leaves - I like that. Very slow-growing though, I
suspect, are they?

Maybe not as fast as native C monogyna. C Prunifolia is relatively fast
but the long thorns may not be appropriate for the location (handsome
though they are)

You'll find a small specimen grows away faster than a larger one.

Janet

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