Imports of hawthorn are putting native hawthorn trees and hedges — as well as cotoneaster, apple, pear, and rowan — at risk and must be halted immediately say environmental groups.

The truth, of course, is that even the simplest hedge will take some time to develop and may require regular watering in its first years, and while native hedging looks best when a bit unkempt and ...

Q: We were planning on using a native hawthorn as a boundary hedge around our country garden. But a friend has warned us off it, saying that there’s a disease spreading throughout Europe that ...

Hawthorn hedges provide nesting sites for songbirds and safe corridors for small mammals. Hazel supports a wide range of insects and fungi, its nuts feeding red squirrels and dormice.

THERE’S always something magical about that week in the middle of May when the hawthorn starts to blossom.

Imagine walking through the Irish countryside, greeted by a tapestry of wildflowers, ancient oaks, and the gentle hum of bees. Yet, beneath this beauty, a silent struggle plays out: centuries of ...

Indian hawthorn is best in sun. Water deeply, apply an organic fertilizer around each plant, and water again. Spread a quality compost along the hedge, and mulch with pine needles or native bark ...

The village of Hawthorn Woods has added more plants, shrubs and trees to the preserve, and also is clearing non-native buckthorn and working on oak regeneration plans. Sheryl DeVore/News-Sun ...

Hedges are a haven for wildlife, providing irresistible supplies of food and shelter. They harbour a great diversity of species from invisibly tiny organisms to insects, beetles, spiders, birds ...

I grew up with a whacking great hawthorn hedge at the end of our suburban garden, and I always loved its flowering, not least because the long evenings had come by then and the May blossom added ...

He plans to craft furniture using trees from native Irish hedgerows, such as blackthorn, hawthorn and crab apple. "It will be a series of small cabinets. In Ireland, we have become completely ...

John Manley, Politics Correspondent. A relative late comer to journalism, John has been with The Irish News for close to 25 years and has been the paper’s Political Correspondent since 2012.