Blackthorn flowers appear before the leaves and the Hawthorn leaves appear before the flowers.
Blackthorn flowers appear before the leaves and the Hawthorn leaves appear before the flowers.
In England, in May, you can't
miss the Hawthorn. It is an extremely common tree in the English countryside,
especially in hedges. Hawthorns are virtually synonymous with hedges. As
many as 200,000 miles of Hawthorn hedge were planted in the Parliamentary
Enclosure
period, between 1750 and 1850. The name 'haw' derives from 'hage', the
Old English for 'hedge'.
The tree gives its beautiful
display of flowers in late April/early May. It is known as the May Tree
and the blossom itself is called May. Source.
22
September 2022
I
cycled the Downs Link from Old Shoreham
to the Cement Works in the last of the dry weather of the parched summer.
Hawkweed Ox-tongue dominated
patches of the uncut
verges. A Southern Hawker patrolled
Erringham Gap,
Downs Link
Hawthorn
was abundantly in berry amongst the hedgerow
boundaries of the former railway track.
Early May 2022
Adur Levels at Old Shoreham
Hawthorn
Blackthorn
near
Slonk Hill Farm
16 September 2021
Hawthorn on Mill Hill
12 September 2021
Sloe
Berries (Blackthorn)
Upper
Beeding
19 May 2021
Hawthorn on Mill Hill
17
May 2021
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Hawthorn in Old Shoreham
Hawthorn
on the town side of the A27
near Holmbush
These
smaller than normal flowers were the first of the year.
Blackthorn on Mill Hill
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Hawthorn on the downs near Holmbush
22 March 2021
Blackthorn at Upper Beeding
19 March 2021
Blackthorn at Old Shoreham
2020
12 May 2020
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Mill
Hill from the western towpath of the River
Adur
The
silver blossom is the Hawthorn
Hawthorn, Downs Link (Mill Hill in the background)
Shall
I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou
art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough
winds do shake the darling
buds of May,
And
summer's lease hath all too short a date.
(Shakespeare's
Sonnet 18)
4 May 2020
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Hawthorn
was splendidly in blossom, best seen
from the western towpath north of Old
Shoreham. I think the peak blossom is yet to show though.
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April 2020
Hawthorn
April showers bring forth May flowers.
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22
April 2020
Hawthorn
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April 2020
The first Hawthorn of the year flowered on the verges of the footpath section of the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham. The Blackthorn at the same location had disappeared reduced to a solitary flower.
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19 March 2020
Blackthorn was flowering in the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham, one bush ahead of the rest.
18 March 2020
Blackthorn at Cuckoo's Corner
At Cuckoo's Corner, the Blackthorn bush was profusely in flower.
16 March 2020
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Blackthorn
Mill
Hill Copse
April 2019
Hawthorn
Top
of Chanctonbury Drive, north Shoreham
Blackthorn Hawthorn
22 April 2019
First
Hawthorn
Buckingham
Road, Shoreham
8 April
2019
Blackthorn
dominated the white blossom plentiful in the hedgerows and amongst the
scrub on the downs. Cherry Plum
had virtually finished and so had the early Blackthorn, but Hawthorn was
yet to flower in the wild.
Blackthorn
29 March 2019
Blackthorn
Blackthorn
was in flower and Hawthorn was
in leaf at Cuckoo's Corner on the Coombes Road.
28 March 2019
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Cherry Plum
Blackthorn
was simultaneously in flower near the
Waterworks
Road, Old Shoreham.
The
sepals are reflexed (like in the Bulbous Buttercup)
in Cherry Plum.