Corylus avellana
Hazelnut
Common names: Hazel, Common Hazel, Hazel shrub
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Description
The hazelnut is a native, robust shrub that blooms in early spring with yellow catkins. It is wind-pollinated and performs best when at least two shrubs of different varieties are close together. In autumn the ripe nuts fall from the husk on their own.
Care instructions
Plant the hazel in autumn (November week 45) in a sunny to partially shaded location with loose, nutrient-rich soil. Prune it every few years in winter (February week 8) by removing the oldest ground shoots, so the shrub remains airy and productive. Collect the nuts in September (week 37) when they fall brown from the fruit cups.
Soil & site
Soil pH
Soil type
loamy, humus-rich, well-drained, nutrient-rich
Feeding
Medium feeder
Pruning
Companion planting
Good neighbors
Companion planting is partly traditional gardening lore. Where the reason is known, it is given.
Varieties
5 varieties‚Corabel’
You will find Corabel a modern French breeding from the INRAE program, protected by plant variety rights.
‚Hallesche Riesennuss’
An old, robust-growing hazelnut tree with large, elongated nuts that was already valued for its yield in the 19th century.
‚Rotblättrige Zellernuss’
The red-leaved filbert is both an ornamental and a productive shrub: its foliage comes out deep wine red, and the husk of the nut is washed with red as well.
‚Webbs Preisnuss’
A proven English variety (originally *'Webb's Prize Cob'*) known for heavy and regular yields.
‚Wunder aus Bollwiller’
This robust Alsatian cultivar (also known as *‚Merveille de Bollwiller’*) carries very large, roundish oval nuts and is…
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From the magazine
Turkish Hazel: A Slim Street Tree, a Grafting Rootstock and Nuts on the Side
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Weaving natural fences: willow, hazel and deadwood
Your winter prunings are fencing material: willow rods strike root and turn into a living fence, hazel poles stay dead and last 5 to 10 years as a weave, brushwood becomes a Benjes hedge. Weaving technique, cutting season CW 46 to 9, service life honestly counted, and what neighbour law has to say about it.
Hazelnut in the garden: pollination, pruning and harvest
The hazelnut is a manageable shrub for almost any garden. Why you need two varieties, how to rejuvenate rather than shape it and what helps against the weevil.
Harvesting, drying and storing nuts without mould
You harvest nuts at fruit fall, not off the tree. How to dry walnut and hazelnut correctly and store them cool so they do not go mouldy or rancid.