Crataegus laevigata 'Crimson Cloud'
NEW! This small, rounded, thorny tree provides a wonderful blanket of colour during the spring. In May it produces a mass of lightly scented, small, single, crimson-red flowers with pronounced white centres which are popular with bees and butterflies and contrast beautifully against the glossy, dark green, deeply-lobed leaves. In the autumn the foliage turns to warm shades of yellow and bronze and the tiny red berries (haws) that appear are much loved by birds. The tree is extremely hardy and will do well in most locations including exposed, coastal sites.
Height x spread in 10 years: up to 4m (13ft) x 3m (10ft).