They'll love any white or cream coloured flowers so blackthorn blossom ... in bundles or as single plants from late autumn to early spring. Some companies supply hedging mixes.

Many of these flowering hedge plants provide valuable shelter and ... For a barbed hedge that is slightly on the wild-side, Blackthorn or prunus spinosa is an excellent choice.

blackthorn, sweet briar, dogwood and spindle tree is my recipe of choice, with the occasional holly and honeysuckle added to leaven the mix. When planting, take out a trench 18in wide and 8in deep ...

Many caterpillars only eat the leaves of one kind of plant, so planting a range of species in a hedge, such as hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, barberry, beech, spindle and privet, will encourage a ...