{"id":12108,"date":"2015-09-27T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2015-09-11T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T14:09:15","slug":"hazel-root-and-branch-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/tree-root-and-branch\/hazel-root-and-branch-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazel &#8211; Root and Branch Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>waiting for photo &#8211; if you have a suitable image let us know<br \/>\n<\/em><a title=\"Hazel DSCF8046 by hedgerowmobile, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hedgerowmobile\/328145048\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/144\/328145048_7efb9971fc.jpg\" alt=\"Hazel DSCF8046\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Corylus are large shrubs or trees that produce nuts. The common &#8216;hazel&#8217; is native to the UK and is often found in old hedge rows.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features of the Hazel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Latin name<\/strong> &#8211; Corylus avellana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height<\/strong> &#8211; up to 40 feet<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type of tree<\/strong> &#8211; Deciduous<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leaves <\/strong> &#8211; Green, round and double toothed<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flowers<\/strong> &#8211; Male long catkins female small bud like with red stigma on same tree.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fruit <\/strong> &#8211; Nut surrounded by husk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bark<\/strong> &#8211; Silver-grey to pale brown<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family<\/strong> &#8211; Corylaceae related to beech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Origins and Distribution of the Hazel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Found throughout Europe and North Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Thrives in woodland and hedges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Uses and Attributes of the Hazel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hazel has the ability to produce multiple stems.<\/li>\n<li>Extensively used for coppicing to make hurdles, hoops for baskets and woven wattle .<\/li>\n<li>Valuable for the crop of edible Hazelnuts<\/li>\n<li>Hazel stems can be split lengthways and bent back on themselves to make a hedge.<\/li>\n<li>Used in the garden as pole and sweetpea supports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Hazel flower by Deanster1983, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33465428@N02\/5413490045\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5252\/5413490045_2d46159d16.jpg\" alt=\"Hazel flower\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Gardeners Tips for the Hazel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Two trees are needed for fertilisation if you want nuts.<\/li>\n<li>Tall straight stems can be used to support plants in the garden.<\/li>\n<li>Useful as a tall screening shrub or small tree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other types of Hazel and key species<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Corylus colchican produces a nut called a Filbert..<\/li>\n<li>There are 15 species of Hazel but the common hazel produces most of the nut crop.<\/li>\n<li>There are a number of cultivars now available.<\/li>\n<li>Corylus avellana &#8216;Contorta&#8217; is called the corkscrew hazel and is grown as an ornamental shrub or small tree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"A lot of nuts - 73\/365 by Wahlander, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wahlander\/3988019100\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2528\/3988019100_970591b322.jpg\" alt=\"A lot of nuts - 73\/365\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Hazel comments from elsewhere<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/nuts-for-uk-gardens\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=hdcaT7SwFsq-8APh0p2bCw&amp;ved=0CBAQFjAG&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNEsQCHm2aa3fW-PEZpBU08aLb6BWQ\">See<\/a> growing nuts in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>After coppicing the growth of successive new stems leads to the formation of a large base, or stool, which can be up to 6 feet in diameter and in this way hazels can live for several hundred years.<\/li>\n<li>Hazel is an important host for lichens and provides food for some moths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about our series on British tree reviews with a bakers dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12342\"> fact sheets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nHazel DSCF8046 by hedgerowmobile CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nHazel flower by Deanster1983 CC BY-ND 2.0 This hazel flower is a female &#8211; the male flowers are the well known and much more obvious &#8220;Lamb&#8217;s Tail&#8221; catkins. I think this flower resembles some sort of Sea Anemone!<br \/>\nA lot of nuts &#8211; 73\/365 by Wahlander CC BY-NC 2.0<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The common &#8216;hazel&#8217; is native to the UK producing a good crop of nuts and trees are often found in old hedge rows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tree-root-and-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}