USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 °C (-20 °F)
USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F)
USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F)
I was introduced to homemade sloe gin while serving in the military in the UK. It is a wonderful thing bearing little in common with the ...Read More
Similar to Hawthorn and often grows alongside it; the two trees have very similar flowers but blackthorn flowers about 6-7 weeks before h...Read More
The fruit even now in December there are here in Bosnia (but the snow has fallen and can not pick them any more). I like to eat it fresh,...Read More
I am a forester based in the UK - some of our work includes the clearance of shrubs such as blackthorn - I have experienced skin infectio...Read More
This is a suckering shrub/small tree native to the UK and Northern Europe. It is much used as a hedging plant, forming an impenetrable th...Read More