English Hawthorn Bonsai

Long 2 5 cm and clad with glossy dark green 3 to 5 lobed leaves.
English hawthorn bonsai. The hawthorn is plant that grows like a shrub in most cases and it takes many years to develop thick trunks. Additionally it is quite easy to achieve a fine ramification on hawthorns. Its outstanding feature is its flowers hardy in zones 5 7. Hawthorn has to be our finest native deciduous species for use in bonsai however there is always some trouble in paradise the species exhibits two characteristics that often conspire to spoil our enjoyment and reward for the work we expend.
Hawthorn is fully frost hardy and extremely tolerant of a wide range of conditions. They are well armed with thorns 1 in. Award winning crataegus laevigata paul scarlet english hawthorn is a small low branching deciduous tree with a dense rounded crown of ascending stiff zig zag branches. Hawthorn growing on the edge of the welsh mountains.
It has little fall color and the fruits are not showy. With small leaves craggy bark fine twigging flowers fruit and the possibility of some autumn colour in warm years english hawthorn is a spectacular species for bonsai and one of the finest deciduous trees for bonsai cultivation in the world. For bonsai it has a number of good characteristics.