A Hawthorne question

[goosey]

Last year I bought a Hawthorne - Crataegus. It wasn't too big and I planted it in a pot and it put on loads of foliage.
This year it has attracted lots of micro moths and insects (the reason I bought it) but it hasn't got any flower buds again. What should I be doing which I am not, to get flowers I wanted it to be a bee and hoverfly magnet?

[tcvarlh]

Hi goosey
do you know which Hawthorn it is? There are buckets of them.

Crataegus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
or talk to these folks
hedgenursery.co.uk

I'll talk to my uncle, he grows some var. Perhaps he can help. It'll be next week earliest tho' as he's abroad at the mo'.
h

Originally Posted by goosey

Last year I bought a Hawthorne - Crataegus. It wasn't too big and I planted it in a pot and it put on loads of foliage.
This year it has attracted lots of micro moths and insects (the reason I bought it) but it hasn't got any flower buds again. What should I be doing which I am not, to get flowers I wanted it to be a bee and hoverfly magnet?

[goosey]

Thanks tcvarlh. I have just found out the ticket that came with it and it is Crataegus monogyna.
I hadn't realised there were so many.
Thank your Uncle from me won't you .

[paul m]

C. monogyna is the common European hawthorn (most Crataegus spp are N. American) however many varieties and hybrids have been bred by horticulturists. Some of these may not produce aignificant seed/fruit.

Have you pruned the shrub at all? This sometimes affects rates of flowering?

[goosey]

Originally Posted by paul m

C. monogyna is the common European hawthorn (most Crataegus spp are N. American) however many varieties and hybrids have been bred by horticulturists. Some of these may not produce aignificant seed/fruit.

Have you pruned the shrub at all? This sometimes affects rates of flowering?

No, I haven't pruned it. When I bought it last year and asked at the nursery for a Crataegus, the chap asked if I wanted white or pink flowers and I said white - so I presume it should flower, but when?
It's a shame as when I have been out and seen ones in flower they are alive with insects and I am missing them .
Apparantly they are pollenated by midges and there are pleny of those in the garden.

[dmclean3]

Goosey, over here in Kent the blossom on the hawthorne is fantastic we have an avenue of trees in Deal that are of the variety C. monognya Hy; Pauls Scarlet with beautiful scarlet flowers,
Dunc

[goosey]

Originally Posted by dmclean3

Goosey, over here in Kent the blossom on the hawthorne is fantastic we have an avenue of trees in Deal that are of the variety C. monognya Hy; Pauls Scarlet with beautiful scarlet flowers,
Dunc

Thanks Duncan - that makes me feel a whole lot better !