Where To Buy Corkscrew Hazel

This corkscrew hazel is ideal for the middle of a sunny border where its winter outline can be fully appreciated or planted in large containers.

Where to buy corkscrew hazel.

In february and march the bizarrely contorted stems of this small hazel are draped with golden yellow catkins. Buy corylus avellana contorta corkscrew hazel online from jacksons nurseries. Buy corkscrew hazel corylus avellana contorta unusual twisted stems. 2 corylus collection click here.

The corkscrew hazel was discovered in an english hedgerow in the mid 1800s by canon ellacombe a victorian era gardener. Corkscrew hazel usually grows wider than tall and can easily be kept to four feet 1 2 m high and wide with light pruning. Carry on browsing if you re happy with this or find out how to manage cookies. I just looked closely at the plant and saw what looked like a fungal disease.

Some of the leaves on the branches did not open this spring on one side. The obovate wavy leaves hold their color for most of the growing season before dropping in winter to reveal the twisted branches. In late winter and early spring a mass of weeping yellow catkins unfurl. Buy from 24 99 at the rhs plants shop.

The leaves which are mid green and twisted appear later. The corkscrew hazel has flourished until now and is 6 by 5 with main branches at least 6 in girth. This unusual and resilient deciduous shrub has the most amazing twisted stems and branches earning it the common name corkscrew hazel. Guaranteed best value low prices fast delivery special offers.

Buy from 24 99 at the rhs plants shop. With its deep maroon purple leaves on twisted corkscrew branches the red dragon contorted filbert is guaranteed to please with outstanding form texture and color. In summer the branches bear a tangle of broadly ovate green leaves followed later by nuts. The royal horticultural society is the uk s leading gardening charity.

It acquired the nickname harold lauder s walking stick in the early 20th century. Harold lauder was a popular scottish entertainer who used branches from a corkscrew hazel as walking sticks. Gardenality is a gardening centric site made by gardeners for gardeners with tools that enhance any gardening for the expert to the weekend gardener.