These Doyenne du commice pears are growing on a 20 year old hawthorn. The scions were cleft grafted in April 2010.
So far so good!
This Medlar ‘Nottingham’ was budded onto a self set hawthorn in April 2010 and is growing away nicely. The first growth at the beginning of the season got knocked off but it soon regrew and has put on 55cm of growth.
The tree is growing through a hard gravel pathway. I think this is the type of situation where a hawthorn rootstock will be useful!
