Crataegus laevigata 'Pauls Scarlet'

Pretty.

So heavy with flower...it looks bright red from a distance.

Is that it in the background as well?

Yes..This is a mature tree and the branches hang just about 2ft from the ground on this one.

Sounds nice!

I will put up the full tree. I like it, if only I had room for one.

Look forward to seeing that but please don't do the Limbo to get a good pic :/

:)))

i saw one of these at Great Witley on Monday ~ lovely tree, a bit special i think.

They look beautiful with long grasses and wildflowers underneith

wild flowers and grasses are lovely everywhere and i see that more and more places are making a feature of them.

beautiful:-) i have a rambling rose called Pauls Scarlett, then again the shop could have put the wrong name tag on it!

No, we had a Pauls Scarlett rose, too, Dawn. I think they just run out of suitable names.

Sure, they look wonderful with wild flowers :))) I am just curious why it blooms now. In my book there is written that C. in Wales usually bloom around 1st of May (Celtic festival beltine). I would like to see, if anybody on this page would travel there, to see Cratageus from Glastonbury. Quite famous one...

I've heard of the famous Glastonbury thorn, Katarina, which is Crataegus monogyna 'Biflora', and is supposed to flower on Christmas day, and then again in late spring - which would be around May time - I hadn't heard it was supposed to be the first of May, though.

Thank you, Gattina for help with English name of C. :))
Well, I just wrote, what I have read from experts on trees and from Friends of Trees in the U.K.

The odd thing about it is supposed to be that the cuttings that they take from it only flower twice if they are in Glastonbury...don't know how true that is.

You probably know its relationship/legend to Joseph of Arimathea, Pimpernel?

I do Katarina. :)

So? You have explanation :))))

Lol..yes maybe.

Yes, He was supposed to have brought a sprig from the holy land and planted it at Glastonbury. Oliver Cromwell's revolutionary soldiers uprooted the original tree in the 17th century because they thought it was a source of superstition, but at least one other has been planted in it's place. A (flowering) sprig is sent to the monarch every Christmas.

In fact, Pimpernel, I do not believe to that legend. Tell me, why he should travel so far from Palestine?

Wanderlust?

Hahaha. No. Man like him do not leave their country. At least not so far.

Ah, in my opinion if you have no doubts, then you have no need of faith. Believing despite the doubts is where faith lies ?

What it has to do with faith, Pim? Lol. This legend was born in the 12. century and is not written neither in Bible, nor in scrolls.