Diversity of Hawthorn

Each year, plants, shrubs and trees flower better or worse depending on weather patterns. 2025 was characterised by a warm, sunny and dry spring, which will have assisted some plants and retarded others. Hawthorn was a chief beneficiary, for its flowers were so great that they were causing branches to droop under their weight. Occasionally, hawthorn bushes are bedecked entirely in pink, despite their being surrounded by more common, white-flowered neighbours, like that photographed, above, on Brogden Lane. Reasons for this evaded my cursory, online research, though the pinkness adds even more variety to the overall beauty.

The godless world in which we live and the ubiquitous equality industry which runs the show frequently trumpet the word ‘diversity’ in every available sentence and mission statement. Yet it was the Creator God who determined to make such a diversity of plants, animals, people and objects. We Christians delight in varied coloured flowers, stars, creatures and human beings, because God made them all and saw that they were good.

For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine. Psalm 50:11-12, NKJV