Examples of hawthorn

• The fact that hedges were usually made of hawthorn, a form of organic barbed wire, takes on an added significance here.

• In my view, to replace an oak or a beech with a hawthorn or a conifer would degrade the landscape to an unacceptable degree.

• However, it is clearly more expensive to plant such a hedge than a straightforward hawthorn hedge.

• In large parts of countryside, traditional hedges are growing out to form a line of straggly hawthorn trees.

• Among the many indigenous species to be planted will be oak, ash, field maple, hawthorn and blackthorn.

• Of the deciduous species, it looks as if hawthorn will be suitable.

• The hawthorn hedge stood on an extremely dangerous corner and in a bottleneck—and the railings are going up in exactly the same place.

• What is happening is that a thick hawthorn hedge has been removed and iron railings put up in its place.