The deciduous hawthorn tree is often called a May tree as the glorious white may flowers fill the hedges during the fifth month of the year..  The white flowers turn pink as they mature and one my fellow Wednesday walkers told me that wine can be made from them.  I think I will wait for our vines to mature before I try to become a vintner.

Some snippets from Google folklore wisdom…….
On 30th April, May eve, hawthorn could be used in love divination. A girl would hang a branch of it from her signpost and in the morning her future husband would come from the direction which it was pointing. If the branch fell there would be no marriage. Hawthorn is connected with marriage rites and used to be placed in a bridal garland. It is a symbol of fertility, love, marriage, hope, fruitfulness and spring.

Hawthorn is also associated with witches. In the Channel Islands folk believed that witches met under the solitary hawthorns and that it was dangerous to sit under a thorn on May eve as the tree could transform itself into a witch. I am not one to argue with folklore!