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Red Hawthorn Tree - Crimson Cloud / Punicea
Browe all of our other ornamental Hawthorn trees & bareroot hedging here.
A small to medium sized native, deciduous tree, Crataegus Crimson Cloud is a Midland hawthorn.
Crimson Cloud is weighed down each May with huge numbers of mostly red blooms that appear in rounded clusters, making the tree hazy with colour and fragrance.
The edges of each flower are deep pink-red, with white "eyes" in the centre.
They have an unusual, rich fragrance that is very popular bees & butterflies.
Like all hawthorns, Crataegus Crimson Cloud is thorny and popular with nesting birds looking for a safe place to rear their chicks.
The fruit, known as haws, have decent decorative value, being small, shiny red and carried in bunches all over the tree.
They add to the interest of the autumn display and hang onto the branches after all the leaves have fallen, providing food for birds like finches and tits.
You can grow Crimson Cloud Hawthorn almost anywhere, including chalky soil and pretty wet places - just as long as it isn't actually a swamp.
They are happy in poor soil, polluted spots by a road or industrial site and are good to plant in very exposed, windy sites.
They are not quite salt tolerant enough to plant directly on the coast, but will thrive in sandy soil only a short distance inland.
Being a small woodland tree, they don't mind growing in shade but they will produce fewer flowers.
Adult trees should reach about 10-12 metres, 35 feet, high.
Crimson Cloud was actually bred over in America, though its parents were brought there from Britain.
You would have a very tough time telling it apart from Crataegus laevigata Punicea, which was cultivated here in the 1820's.
This tree won the RHS Award of Merit in 1990, which is a prize given to cuttings of plants on display for their beauty.
Please watch our tree planting video for full planting instructions.
How Standard Trees are Measured:
All the plants in the ornamental trees section are graded as standards, which means that they are measured by their girth in centimetres 1 metre above ground level (basically, their trunk's waist measurement). They aren't measured by their height, which will vary.
So, a 6/8 standard has a trunk with a circumference of 6-8 centimetres and an 8/10 standard has a trunk 8-10 centimetres around.
This measurement makes no difference to the tree's final height. Most standards are between 2 - 3.5 metres tall, but this is just an average. We cannot tell you how tall your trees will be before we deliver them.
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Delivery: Any order with a standard sized tree in it has a basic delivery charge of £12.55 + vat.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
You can choose the delivery week that suits you during checkout and we will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.
Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.
Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.
Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted trees must be watered in dry weather while they are establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.
Our nursery has been supplying large ornamental trees to gardeners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying specimen trees online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.
Your 12 Month Guarantee
If any plants die within a year, we replace them if you have followed our instructions. You only pay for
the delivery of the replacements.
Place an order for £250 excluding VAT and delivery and we deliver it for FREE!
Bare-root Plants are only delivered in the winter season, from November to March. Pot grown plants can be delivered all year round
Advantages of Bare-root plants:
You pay less for the same size plants.
You can carry and plan them easily.
You only plant them in winter, so they need less maintenance after
planting. The rain will water them for their first few months.
You get the biggest selection: Many trees are not sold pot-grown.
They are "asleep" in winter - this is the best time to transplant any tree.
They use fewer fertilisers & fungicides, less water and fuel in their production & delivery.
Advantages of Pot Grown plants:
Pot grown plants can be delivered & planted all year round.
Plants with tender roots & larger specimens must be delivered in pots.
Plants in pots can be kept for months longer if there is a delay in planting.
Our Advice to You:
If you can't wait to get planting, order Pot grown plants now.
If you are not in a hurry, order bare-root plants for delivery this winter. Simply add them to your basket and choose a winter delivery date that suits you during checkout.
This will reserve your plants before they sell out.
We won't charge you until the day before delivery, so cancelling your order is always easy.
If you are only ordering chemicals and other small items, delivery is £3.50
Our delivery charge for most bareroot plants is £9.49 + VAT.
If your order contains any standard sized trees, fruit trees or pot-grown plants, then the delivery charge is £12.55 + VAT in TOTAL.
If you live in the Scottish Highlands or the Isle of Wight, there will be an extra charge of £15 + VAT on top of the appropriate basic charge, as listed above.
If your order is over £250 exc. VAT, there will be no delivery charge.
If you are uncertain, just add items to your basket which will calculate the basic shipping charge for you.
