Don’t over-prune - Hawthorn trees do not respond well to hard pruning, so avoid getting too carried away with the pruning tools. The tree will perform better when approached with a lighter touch.

A: Although hawthorn trees can contract some diseases, like rust fungi, what you’re describing is feeding damage from an insect. This is the classic symptom for hawthorn leafminer, a type of sawfly.

The hawthorn tree stands alone in the valley, I remember her shape against the sky, Branches twisted with memories of the wind. Her roots clutch at the stony earth, Bony fingers in the unyielding ...

The Washington hawthorn is a good, small, ornamental tree and one of the best for wildlife, providing food, shelter, cover and nesting for many kinds of birds and wildlife.

And since this tree has never been found to occur naturally outside of Tennessee, that left only one known wild Harbison’s Hawthorne in the world, until Hart’s discovery.