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[Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>]

Hi,

Firstly, thank you very much for each of the replies on hawthorn as a hedgerow against deer.  I just had a thought: what about American plum?!  A single planting can result in a dense, suckering clump with thorns.  I'm not looking for formal, aesthetics, etc. 

I've seen photos of American plum growing into a monoculture of its clonal rootsuckers and, unlike the hawthorn issue, I don't have to worry with P. americana about space underneath the crown - there is no space because it forms a mess of a bush with the height of a shrub-tree - looks as dense as Rosa multiflora (exotic invasive).

Plus, from what I understand so far, it is not symptomatic of x-knot disease, typically.

What do you think?

Steve