A very muddy dog walk earlier today but lovely to see the hawthorn bushes starting to flower. Already made a mental note of where the big ones are so I can come back later in the year to collect the haws (berries) to make some haw-sin sauce.
Also noted where the biggest earlier flowering blackthorn bushes are for some sloe gin ready for Christmas. All of these pictures are of the hawthorn, by the way.
How do you tell the white flowered bushes apart? Well apart from the blackthorns usually flowering earlier and being all gone by the time the hawthorn starts; the blackthorn flowers before developing leaves whereas the hawthorn has had leaves for ages and flowers after they are beautifully green.
Both the young leaves and the flowers of the hawthorn are edible, by the way.
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