{"id":21421,"date":"2024-02-19T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21421"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T10:29:41","slug":"corkscrew-hazel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/corkscrew-hazel\/","title":{"rendered":"Corkscrew Hazel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Corylus avellana 'Contorta' by Stadtkatze, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stadtkatze\/4177114426\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4001\/4177114426_4e49afc64f.jpg\" alt=\"Corylus avellana 'Contorta'\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Corylus avellana Contorta<\/strong> is also known as Harry Lauders Walking Sticks or Corkscrew Hazel<\/li>\n<li>This is a slow growing deciduous shrub that can grow to 20&#8242; high when mature.<\/li>\n<li class=\"a-spacing-mini\"><span class=\"a-list-item\"> Yellow catkins droop from bare twisted stems in February before small green leaves appear. I have never collected any nuts from my tree. <\/span>Propagation is best done by layering branches.<\/li>\n<li class=\"a-spacing-mini\"><span class=\"a-list-item\"> Corkscrew Hazel has a distinctive appearance with curious, twisted branches but occasionally throws upright succors. I have just pruned out my succors from the graft. I got 10 long straight poles of hazel to use as supports.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"a-spacing-mini\"><span class=\"a-list-item\"> The shrub is very hardy and easy to grow. I was given mine from a neighbor about 10 years ago. \u2018Contorta\u2019 has earned an RHS Award of Garden Merit <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"a-spacing-mini\"><span class=\"a-list-item\"> A superb feature for winter borders, woodland areas and oriental planting schemes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Corkscrew Hazel looks best in winter and from February-March there are pendant male catkins on the bare branches.<\/li>\n<li>When in leaf the mid green leaves show an ugly deformed appearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corylus avellana Contorta is also known as Harry Lauders Walking Sticks or Corkscrew Hazel This is a slow growing deciduous shrub that can grow to 20&#8242; high when mature. Yellow catkins droop from bare twisted stems in February before small green leaves appear. I have never collected any nuts from my tree. Propagation is best done by layering branches. Corkscrew Hazel has a distinctive appearance with curious, twisted branches but occasionally throws upright succors. I have just pruned out my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/corkscrew-hazel\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421","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=21421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21425,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421\/revisions\/21425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}