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Hawthorn, Wild Form (Crataegus monogyna) potted tree, Organic
$21.00
Please note: regarding 2024 hawthorn stock, the trees are on the small side. Your tree will need to be planted up to a gallon pot and kept that way for a year before transplanting to the landscape.
Family: Rose (Rosaceae)
Hardy to Zones 4 to 8
Crataegus monogyna is a small to mid-sized deciduous thorny bush to small tree to 30 feet tall, although it can be kept trimmed to desired size and even does well as a hedgerow species. Tree prefers full sun to part shade and deep, moist to mesic soil of average fertility. No compost or fertilizer is needed or recommended. Space trees 30 feet apart or if making into a hedgerow plant 5 feet apart. A giving plant to bird and beast alike. Traditional usage (TWM): maladies of the heart. Hawthorn is considered to be an adaptogen for the heart. Tree has a beautiful fountaining habit, and the fruits are really good to eat fresh, dried, or in confections (but remove the seeds lest they remove a tooth).
2-year-old potted tree
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Sara –
Hi! Im on a waiting list for the monogyma potted tree and I’m wondering if I need to do anything else? It says to order by 11/19/23.
Thanks!
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Richo Cech –
Hi Sara, thanks for staying in touch. The hawthorn trees will be shipped starting spring 2024. When you get the e-mail from the waitlist, which will happen in January, you can reserve one at that time. Meanwhile you don’t have to do anything else. richo
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Sara (verified owner) –
Hi Richo, I just got my 3 plants yesterday, Ty! what kind of soil/brand do you recommend?
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Richo Cech –
Hi Sara,
Any standard OMRI approved potting mix will do. You can use “black gold” or the equivalent.
Richo
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slynneb68 –
Hey Richo,
When I receive the plant do I go ahead and transfer it to a gallon pot and keep it outside or should it be kept inside during cold months?
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Richo Cech –
hello slyn, we recommend up-potting all of our stock to gallons right away. We have to keep everything in small pots due to shipping realities. Up-potting is your surest way of increasing the size and utility of the stock you get from us. Hawthornes are extremely cold-tolerant and can be potted up and left in a sheltered position outdoors through the winter and placed to landscape the following spring. Really these things need to be a foot tall or so before they can withstand the rigors of outplanting. If you are in a very cold zone, mulch around the gallon pots in the fall to make sure the plant overwinters successfully. That is, deep mulch all the way up to the rim. richo
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slynneb68 –
Thanks! I live in zone 7b sometimes it shows a just 7 for some reason
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slynneb68 –
Hey Richo,
I’m on the waiting list for the Hawthorn potted tree as well as others do I need to go ahead and place my order now and pay for it?
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Richo Cech –
hi slyn, thanks for keeping in touch! Hawthorn trees are potted up in our nursery and will be sold in the spring of 2024. Please order and pay at that time. Richo
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normasceales (verified owner) –
I bought the potted hawthorn tree eventually can I keep it to grow no more than 10 or 15 feet?
Thanks!
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Richo Cech –
Hi Norma,
Thanks for writing. YEs, you can prune the tree to keep it short. The way these tend to grow, is the side branches stay at the same height except for the leader. When the leader reaches 10 feet, lop it off! Richo
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normasceales –
Can I make a menstrum and or a shrub with the dry berries?
What is one way you use the dry berries?
Thanks
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Richo Cech –
Hi Norma! One way is to make the tincture of whole dried berries. 1:5 (50A:40W:10GLY) Suggest reading page 190 of “Making Plant Medicine.”
richo
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Laura –
Hi
Can Hawthorn, Wild Form (Crataegus monogyna) potted tree, Organic be grown in a pot? If so what size and do you recommend a plastic pot or the bags. I live in Massachusetts Zone 6a I plan to move from my current residence in the next couple of years so hoping I could keep it in a pot for a few years. Should I start with a smaller pot and then size up over time or just start in a large pot? Also could it live forever in a pot? In order to get the right location I may need to do that.
Thank you very much in advance.
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Richo Cech –
Hi Laura, Thanks for contacting. We’re currently sold out on wild hawthorn trees but will have them again in the spring. I recommend planting the seeds now in a gallon pot, or hitting waitlist and getting an established tree in spring. Anyhow, yes, the tree does well in pots. The salient factor is whether a tree sizes itself to the pot or tends to overgrow and then suffer–hawthorne sizes itself to the pot. Yes, it is best to work them up in successively larger pots. Start with a gallon pot, then 3 gallon, then go to a grow bag or 5 gallon pot. Eventually you might want to go to a half drum. That would be roomy enough for a multistemmed hawthorne that would flower nicely and bear fruit. richo
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laura.mangels –
Are yields of hawthorn fruit (including wild form, but also others) increased with a second plant for cross-pollination? And if so, would it have to be two of the same species, or could two separate hawthorns species cross-pollinate? Thank you!
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Richo Cech –
Hi Laura, hawthornes yield great without a pollinator. They are not only self-fertile, but apomictic, they do not hybridize. richo
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Tina –
Hi, when will this Crataegus monogyna start to flower and fruit? Thank you.
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Richo Cech –
hi tina, realistically, it will probably take 3 to 5 years. r
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Maria Gray –
I live in central Florida zone 9b will this plant grow in the zone>
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Richo Cech –
hi maria, i want to say yes. we have these listed to a zone 9. reason being they can burn out with too much heat. maybe a shady or northern aspect? r
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Justine –
I live in a windy dry area of s. California zone 9B. Would these plants do well here? I really want one for its heart health benefits.
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Richo Cech –
hi justine, we have these listed only as hot as Zone 8. You’d probably only have luck with it in a shady and moist area protected from the wind. They are super tough, though. richo
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Ashton (verified owner) –
What is the fragrance of hawthorn in bloom?
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Richo Cech –
Hello Ashton, We get mixed reviews on this. Many consider it to be almond-like, sweet and dense. It is actually used quite frequently in perfumery. Others dislike it. It is a fragrance deep and pervasive, extraordinarily attractive to native pollinators. Richo
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Kade Zeman –
i am interested in getting 2-5 trees. Is it economical to keep these trees in a greenhouse ( Walipini), at least from a labor perspective? Also, do you have any trees that have been carried over a year or two? If so, what are the prices?
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Richo Cech –
hello kade, the trees are outdoor acclimatized and would soon outgrow your walipini. they are tough permaculture allies that are meant to be planted outdoors. They’re already 2-year-olds, some of them are 3-year-olds, you can request the largest tree available when ordering by using the “order comments” field at checkout. But for all practical purposes, once planted, these are all going to size up equally well. If you’re local, we can arrange for gallon size or larger trees, but these are too large to ship. richo
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Jaime Goodman –
I’m interested in purchasing a particular variety of hawthorn called Crataegus pinnatifida. Can you help?
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Richo Cech –
hello jaime, i believe that is the Chinese hawthorne, and its a good one. we used to have it and no longer have it. i don’t know where to get it, we have discontinued trade with china, they do not tend to follow usda guidelines. richo
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Patrice Hunter –
HI there, Can I grow the English Hawthorne in a large pot at least for a while? I am in a townhouse and think the soil outside is sprayed. Thanks
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Richo Cech –
hi patrice,
definitely, i personally have quite a few of them in 5 gallon pots and they are very, very nice. Miniature, gnarly, full of flowers this year. r
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Svetlana Petrowizky –
Do hawthorn flowers smell bad?
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Richo Cech –
hello svetlena, this appears to be a matter of taste, where some people say they smell musty, while others describe the odor as sweetly vanilla-like. To a pollinator, it is a very attractive smell. I love making the tincture of hawthorn leaf and flower and find the scent quite nice. r
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Heather –
Hi! Will you have any of these this year?
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Richo Cech –
Hello Heather, I am sorry i don’t know the answer to that. We do have a nice planting but they are deeply rooted in and we may need to work with them next year not this year. Please hit “waitlist.” Richo
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Angela –
Hi Richo! Will you have any Hawthorn trees for sale this year for 2022? Thanks so much!
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Richo Cech –
hi angela, the tree is purchase-able at this link, you can put it in your cart, i would not wait too long to do so, these are selling very fast. r
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Stephanie –
What would happen if I tried to grow this beautiful tree in zone 9? San Diego, CA Mountain valley area.
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Richo Cech –
Hello Stephanie, Some sources list this as an acceptable species all the way up to zone 11. I’ve tried to be conservative about recommending Crataegus monogyna in warmer winter areas because my experience is that they are healthier when they get a cold winter dormancy. If as the name “mountain valley” suggests you do have treed slopes then this might be a better habitat for a hawthorne tree than say a desert valley floor with alkaline soils. It might make sense to visit a local nursery and see which if any hawthornes are being provided for local planting–there may be more heat-tolerant species and cultivars out there. Richo
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Adrienne –
Hey there! How old are these $15 potted hawthorn plants?
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Richo Cech –
Hello Adrienne, These are currently marked out of stock because they are in the field and haven’t been set to pots. 4-year-olds. hit “waitlist” and as soon as we have something we think will work well for you, we’ll enable and an e-mail will go out to you so you can order. richo
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Kira –
Are either of the hawthorn varieties you offer suitable for espalier? I’m hoping to train one at least semi-flat to a trellis with schisandra on either side. Not sure if the wood is at all flexible, or if they would take to that type of pruning. (Zone 6 NY)
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Richo Cech –
Hi Kira,
Thanks for staying in touch. The wood of hawthorn is extremely flexible and the plant can be trained extensively. I think the downside could be that it tends to resprout with multiple stems from any cut so you’d end up pruning it frequently. However I do not think this is a stopper. I worked with hawthornes throughout the winter and early spring. I had a whole field of them. I had to prune them back hard in order to send them to people, as they were already shoulder-high in the field and it would have made the boxes too long to send them without pruning. But I planted a number of the heavily-pruned trees in 3-gallon containers in order to assess how they came out of the heavy pruning, and what I found was, that they were able to thrive, and many of them sent out a primary leader that is now, again, shoulder-high. You can choose any branch you like and tie it back to a trellis and get it to do pretty much anything you want. Richo
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Kristie Reed –
I’m looking for a hawthorn for zone 7a, Oklahoma. The smaller the better. Main use is to make teas. What would you suggest?
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Richo Cech –
Hi Kristie,
Yes, I would suggest the English Hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata/oxyacantha) potted tree. It is smaller right now and can be trimmed back as it grows. Don’t forget the value of the leaves and flowers for making tea–much easier to make tea with those than with the berries.
Richo
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Steve B –
Hello, I have a planting location that is a South exposer with summer shade in the mid afternoon – zone 9 with a slight effect of zone 8. Would it be likely to successfully grow the English Hawthorn.
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Admin Richo Cech –
Hello Steve,
I get this question a lot and I wish I had experience trying to grow medicinal hawthornes in zones 8 and 9. I mean, there’s really no harm in trying, but it is warmer than the plant is listed for, and the trees may suffer. Shade and plenty of water would be helpful.
Richo
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