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Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
Examples of hawthorn in a Sentence
The hawthorn serves as a stock for grafting other trees.
The wood of the hawthorn is white in colour, with a yellowish tinge.
It is given to a supposed hybrid between the Hawthorn and the Medlar.
Hawthorn berries are used in Europe as a heart tonic.
Encourage birds by planting trees and shrubs with berries like hawthorn, rowan and cherry.
A talisman made from Hawthorn wood will enhance your ability to release love, open the heart and align yourself to your spiritual development.
Japanese Hawthorn (Raphiolepis) - R. ovata is a beautiful Japanese shrub, hardy in southern districts, and with a little winter protection may even be planted in cold parts.
It has silvery leaves divided into a number of small leaflets, and clusters of white flowers like the Hawthorn, followed by red-brown berries.
You may find dietary supplements such as turmeric, nettle, grapeseed extract, or hawthorn included.
Oral preparations may include extracts of hawthorn berry, blackthorn, or licorice root, while topical preparations to relieve itching typically include licorice or German chamomile.
Hawthorn berries are claimed to contain power antioxidants that can help to protect the body from free radical damage.
Hawthorn berries are rich in bioflavonoids and antioxidants.
It includes blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose and other plants which should offer a rich habitat to hedgerow birds such as song thrushes.
I drew this hawthorn blossom at Barbara's mom's.
Using shrub species to act as a barrier between wood and roadside (holly, hawthorn, hazel, dog rose, buckthorn ).
Conventional harrows were ineffective on the rough terrain but harnessing Doug Joiner's horses to drag a severed hawthorn bush worked.
In Rome, Greece and Britain, the Hawthorn becomes a tree of enforced chastity.
Playing took me as far away as Australia where I played solo cornet in the top brass band Hawthorn.
Its also a good time to trim or cut back deciduous hedges such a hornbeam or hawthorn.
The second EDEN is a turbine torpedo-boat destroyer, launched at Hawthorn Leslie's Yard in 1903.
Typical plants are ' Pink lady ', common hawthorn, common holly, firethorn and common gorse.
Birds eat the haws on the hawthorn bushes and deposit the remains across the common, surface planting them for germination in the summer.
We will be removing hawthorn from the chalk grasslands and laying a hedge.
The hedges contains hawthorn, hazel, field maple, spindle, rose and holly.
The Glastonbury Thorn is simply a sport of common hawthorn, unusual but not unknown elsewhere.
An old hawthorn hedge A mixture of species within a native hedgerow is an excellent habitat for small birds and mammals too.
Scrub regeneration includes hazel, elder, hawthorn and sallow.
The understorey is a sparse layer of elder, hawthorn with some regenerating cherry.
All the other ancient forest trees in quantity - small leaved lime, hornbeam, sessile oak, midland hawthorn.
This shrub layer may include hazel, hawthorn or blackthorn.
Hedges of hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose, hazel and guelder rose have also been planted.
I have knelt at the feet of great teachers, but I have also knelt at the twisty branches of the hawthorn hedge.
Fields within basin enclosed by dense, hawthorn hedgerows with numerous, well-spaced hedgerow trees; hedgerows on margins are predominantly gorse.
Herbs that may be helpful An animal study showed that an extract of hawthorn significantly reduced the number of experimentally induced arrhythmias.
Hawthorn preparations are the subject of German Commission E monographs.
Hawthorn is the best hedge, followed by holly, yew and wild privet.
The hawthorn hedges along the lanes have been sculpted by the wind into huge quiffs.
The key cardiovascular-supporting agent in this tonic is hawthorn. which contains a bioflavonoid, or plant chemical, called rutin.
At the southwestern edge of the wood there is an area of hawthorn scrub surrounding a small area of flower-rich grassland.
Hawthorn and blackthorn scrub has covered areas of the banks turning them into a haven for warblers and spotted flycatcher.
Spittle Mere also has a breeding colony of crested newts while the hawthorn scrub provides cover for nesting songbirds.
The walking was easy, as the Elham Valley Way followed the Nailbourne through farmland and hawthorn thicket to the next village.
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Rowan, hawthorn, holly and hazel grow beneath to form an understory, with alder and willow in the damper areas beside streams.
Berwick Crescent - 3 The bankside vegetation in this area includes hawthorn, willow and alder.
We find the living British species of Rhamnus, maple, sloe, hawthorn, apple, white-beam, guelder-rose, cornel, elm, birch, alder, hornbeam, hazel, oak, beech, willow, yew and pine, and also the spruce.
Hazel thickets on the lower slopes give way to mixed woodland of ash, birch, hawthorn and rowan.
A single HE fell in a turnip field west of Peake House Farm, Hawthorn, causing no damage.
Hawthorn has been effective in treating angina, atherosclerosis and high cholesterol.
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