hazel nut 'Kentish Cob'

hazel nut

• Position: full sun
• Soil: fertile, well-drained, preferably chalky soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: February to March
• Flower colour: golden-yellow catkins
• Other features: large hazel nuts
• Hardiness: fully hardy
  
  A tree-like shrub that has elegant, golden-yellow catkins in late winter, followed by mid-green, heart-shaped leaves. The delicious, edible nuts that follow will ripen in mid-August. This variety needs a sunny garden for the large hazel nuts to ripen.
  
  
• Garden care: Prune dead, diseased and damaged wood in March and apply a 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted organic matter around the base of the plant. Suckers should be removed from the base of the plant as soon as they appear.
  
  

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