{"id":611953377606,"date":"2025-11-11T15:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/uncategorized\/hawthorn-hedge-plant-portraits\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:42:27","slug":"hawthorn-hedge-plant-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/hedging\/hawthorn-hedge-plant-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn: Hedge Plant Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you will pardon the Cockney, Hawthorn is the &#8220;cherry hog&#8217;s flowers&#8221; of a hedge plant. Most of the hedges near us (be they hawthorn, beech, whatever) come from us &#8211; not surprisingly as Ashridge Nurseries sells over 2 million plants a year of which a large proportion end up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/products\/hawthorn-hedge-plants-crataegus-monogyna\">hawthorn hedges across the UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the possible exception of yew, no other hedge plant has the dignity and good temper of hawthorn. It is almost unflappable.<\/p>\n<p>Next to our packing shed is what ought to be an abomination of a hedge. Solid hawthorn, planted on a bank of what can only be described politely as &#8220;subsoil&#8221;, weed-infested, unclipped. What you might call neglected or, if it were a small child, abused. And yet here we are on 5th January 2009, and this long-suffering hawthorn hedge is still covered in haws. They were dripping with frost this morning and looked simply stunning as I walked to work. Closer examination showed a few buds are beginning to stir, and I have complete confidence in saying that the seriously hard frost we got last night will have left them as perfect as ever.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a mile away is a small ex-council house (I believe it is now privately owned) whose exquisite small garden is open to the public one day a year in June. In the interests of the Gardeners Benevolent Fund, I am afraid you will need to buy the Yellow Book of Gardens Open to the Public in England &amp; Wales to find out where it is. Anyway, in June, when a Hawthorn hedge is neither in flower nor in full berry, this little garden&#8217;s boundary hedge is a tight clipped, razor-edged, utterly immaculate thing of beauty. 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Trimmed and tended, it\u2019s equally stunning, forming a dense, elegant boundary hedge that\u2019s a joy in any season, offered by professional growers you can trust. If you\u2019ve space in your garden and haven\u2019t planted one yet, it might be time to discover why the humble hawthorn hedge is such a classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":613787866074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"Hawthorn Hedge Plant Portrait \u2013 Resilient UK Favourite","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Hawthorn's unflappable nature makes it a top choice for UK hedges. 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