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Hawthorn top half dead?

  • 07-08-2020 9:04pm
    #1
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭


    I planted a whole bunch of bare root trees for hedging earlier this year and most of them are doing well.

    However two of the hawthorn I had given up hope on as they seemed be grey/dead, now have shoots from the near the bottom of the tree.

    Should I leave them do their thing, or prune off the top where I it looks dead/grey?

    The other hawthorns are doing fine.

    The trees we 2-3 ft bare root if that makes any difference.


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yes, cut off about half way down and see if the wood looks dead inside. If it is green/white - ie living - then stop, but if it is dead cut a bit further down till you are just into live wood, it will soon catch up. I had some tiny silver birches, only a couple of feet high, and two of them got accidentally cut in half, but new growth - new leaders - have sprouted and they are catching up fast, all in a few months.


  • #3
    SnowyMuckish
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    I find hawthorn is very resilient. It’s almost impossible to kill in my garden. It can withstand a lot of hard pruning. I would go down to a set of shoots and cut back hard above them, you’d be surprised at how quick it will bounce back.


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