Comments on: Hawthorn: Hedge Plant Portraits

By: julian

julian — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:59:25 +0000

Hi Jo

You can either plant other deciduous plants into your hawthorn hedging that have some interest at other times of the year (dog rose has hips into November/December), dogwoods have coloured bark all through the winter etc.

Alternatively you could just interplant with holly – we would suggest plain old green holly as the variegated types tend to look a bit brash with hawthorn. Some will be male, some female and you will have leaves, flowers and berries at times when the hawthorn is looking a bit dull.

I think I recognise your email address – did you buy hawthorn whips from us a few years ago? If so it would be great to see how they have grown up….

Best
Julian

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:05:24 +0000

My garden is protected on 2 sides by a very well established Hawthorn hedge. I really enjoy the Hawthorn for 7 months of the year, but do find the bare branches and whips very dull from autumn til spring. is there any evergreen hedging plant that you could recommend for introducing alongside?
Many thanks
Jo

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:14:22 +0000

Hi Joanna Yes you do, but not now. Probably the best thing to do is to read our the instructions the Ashridge Trees website on how to prune a hawthorn hedge at clipping a hawthorn hedge. Let me know if you need any more info. Good luck Julian

By: joanna

joanna — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:21:51 +0000

Hello there – i planted a hawthorn hedge last winter and i have been told i need to cut it back. Do i & if so by how much and when?

thanks
jo

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:23:18 +0000

I could not agree more. We have a hawthorn hedge that my dad planted. He took a lot of trouble and four years later it looks fantastic.