Hawthorn is often grown as part of a native hedgerow where its clusters of white flowers are a distinctive sight in spring later in the year these become bunches of red berries greatly sought after by birds hawthorn has another useful quality 45 with thorny branches it grows into a dense and inpenetrable thicket making it an excellent choice for a secure boundary supplied as 604590cm 402445353441 bare root hedging plants height 8m 402641 spread 8m 402641