Benefits of patience

[Jimny14]

Or being too busy to do what you think you want to.

We moved in to our house a few years ago in August and enjoyed the late summer making plans for the garden. We needed to sort out the hedge at the back of the house as it needs to be stock proof and was mainly taken over with Ash and elder. This took priority over other stuff which was on the plan.
My father in law was puzzled about why there was a hawthorn tree planted by the front gate and suggested turning it in to fire wood and replacing with something more attractive.
Also there's a cabbage palm in the back garden which is a little incongruous in our garden as there are no other similar plants in our garden.
Anyway the hawthorn flowers every spring as in the picture (the first spring we were in we worked out why the hawthorn was kept) and the palm is flowering for the first time this year so its got a red version as a friend for the future which has just gone in.

[Jay-ell]

Of course there's also all the berries on the hawthorn for the birds (or yourself in you fancy)

[burnie]

A native plant like the Hawthorn is so beneficial to your local environment and it looks great too, I like the autumn leaf colour as well.

[Snoop Puss]

Beautiful tree, Jimmy. Glorious.

[Jimny14]

I don't disagree at all with the benefit to wildlife of the hawthorn that's why we reinstated the overgrown boundary hedge. It's now a couple of hundred feet of mixed hedging mainly hawthorn, field maple, Hazel a little viburnum opulus, a Holly, some lilac has reappeared through it and of course brambles, and wild rose are making their presence known too.