What is white hawthorn?
White hawthorn, commonly called White Haw or dotted hawthorn, comes from the Eastern United States and Canada. It is a medium size tree and part of the Rosaceae plant. It is identified under the name of the Crataegus punctata and produces the state flower Missouri.
The tree can grow 20 to 30 feet (about 6 to 9 m) high with the same spread of the canopy. White Hawthorn is a deciduous tree that releases leaves at the end of autumn and remains bare through the winter. At the end of spring, small, snow white 0.5 inches (about 1.7 cm) flowers, followed by a small round fruit of 0.75 inches (about 1.9 cm) in summer.
Hawthorn trees, including White Hawthorn, belong to the Rosaceae family and are closely related to apples, pears, cherries, peaches and apricots. Unlike their edible relatives, Hawthorn's fruit is considered ornamental due to their small size, hardness and general unlimability for people. Hlohorna fruit provides an important source of food for birds and mammals.
White Hawthorn is growingpreferably in a place in full sun. It can be cut into a small tree of the landscape or have its mature height and spread, which provides shade in summer and autumn. Like the other hawthorn, White Hawthorn has a sharp spine on the branches.
As an ornamental tree of the landscape, White Hawthorn is ideal for providing fresh green leaves, abundant late spring flowers and decorative summer and autumn fruits. It also provides shade and visual interest. It can also be planted as part of the planting or withdrawal of the screen and trimmed to maintain the shape of the hedge. Bílý Hloh, tolerant of urban conditions, is also suitable for lining of the city streets and parking spaces.
Spring is the best time to set a new white Hloh in the landscape, because it will have the whole summer to become before winter. The suitable is also breathless, depending on how Hawthorn arrived from the kindergarten. For example, ornamental trees tend toTo come to pots with maternity flowers with attic balls around the roots, often wrapped in a bag for a bag. Pots of hawthorn and those with attic balls wrapped in a bag can be planted anytime between spring and fall. Bare root trees have the best chance of success when they are planted in spring.
pruning should be done at the end of winter or early in the spring before new buds of the leaves appear. All dead wood and broken branches should be removed using pruning scissors for smaller branches and saw for larger branches. The trees can cut to maintain the desired shape and size.