Your gardening questions answered: We were planning on using native hawthorn as a boundary hedge around our country garden
Q: We were planning on using a native hawthorn as a boundary hedge around our country garden. But a friend has warned us off it, saying that there’s a disease spreading throughout Europe that’s killing hawthorn trees and hedges.
There have been 17 cases confirmed in Ireland in 2023 including in urban areas, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the countless kilometres of native hawthorn hedges that are such a defining and integral element of the Irish landscape as well as for the free-standing “sceachs” or fairy trees nurtured for generations.
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