Yamadori
Stonecrop
Juniperus communis
Off a Cairngorm slope in 1991, under licence
Literati · 91 cm · c. 320 yrs
Price on request
Yamadori
The Gower Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna · Common hawthorn
Shaped by forty years of one prevailing wind
Windswept, and not by anybody here — every branch runs the same way because the Atlantic put them there. Flowers white, fruits red, and has the coarsest, most convincing bark of anything in the nursery.
£16,500
Available
No tree leaves here on the strength of a photograph. Come and walk round it first — we will hold anything for a fortnight while you decide. Delivery is by hand, in our own van, anywhere in the British Isles.
Every tree goes with a year of aftercare: repotting when it wants it, winter cover, and a standing invitation to bring it back if it sulks. Most people use it. Nobody has ever been charged for it.
Arrange a viewingor ring the nursery on +44 1273 841 209
Through the year
- SpringWhite flower along every windward branch
- SummerSmall dark leaf, thorns you will find
- AutumnHaws, heavy and red
- WinterBark, and the shape the wind left
The tree
- Style
- Windswept · fukinagashi
- Age
- About 180 years old
- Training
- In training since 2003 · 23 years
- Height
- 69 cm
- Spread
- 104 cm
- Pot
- Unglazed rectangle, British, Walsall
- Keeping it
- Hawthorn sulks after repotting and then forgives you entirely. Prune after flowering, and accept that it will put out one insane vertical shoot a year.
Where it came from
Lifted from a field boundary on the Gower in 2003 when the hedge was grubbed out for a fence line. The farmer wanted forty pounds and a hand with the digger. Twenty-two years of recovery and refinement since, almost all of it spent not interfering.
Alongside it
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