Really Wild Flowers

Blackthorn

Prunus spinosa

Blackthorn is one of the first trees or shrubs to flower each Spring.

Food source

Larval

Volume discounts

40 - 90

-£1.35

100 +

-£4.00

Postage

Minimum order is 30 hedging plants - can be a mix of species.

£12.90 for 10

Qty 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200

 

Full description

The fruit of Blackthorn are sloes which can be used to make sloe gin. 

Blackthorn can be grown as part of a hedge or left to form a small tree. 

It is the food plant of various moths and used by birds to nest in.   It is also the caterpillar food plant of the Black Hairstreak and Brown Hairstreak butterflies and the latter lays its eggs on the Blackthorn shoots - so please only trim one side of the hedge each year.  The eggs are white and the size of a pinhead.

Bare-root plants 40-60cm.

PLEASE NOTE: Minimum order for Hedgerow Plants is 30 plants.  (This could be 10 each of 3 different species.)  If ordering in addition to a Hedgerow Collection, then any number can be ordered.