- Eventual Height: 25m
- Eventual Spread: 25m
chestnut 'Marhlac'
chestnut
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size: 7 litre pot
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available to order from summer 2012
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- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: deep, loamy, well-drained soil with a slightly acidic pH
- Rate of growth: fast-growing
- Flowering period: April and May
- Hardiness: fully hardy
If you like the idea of roasting chestnuts, then this handsome tree will provide you will bucket-fulls when it has had a chance to become established (usually after 5 or more years). It is an early to mid-season hybrid variety, which is a vigorous grower, and it will produce large, mahogany-red nuts, that store well after being harvested. It is partially self-fertile, so does not need a pollination partner, but it will produce an even bigger crop if there is another chestnut planted nearby.
- Garden care: Remove crossing or wayward branches when dormant in late winter or early spring. When roasting the nuts, make sure you prick them first to stop them 'exploding'.
- Eventual Height: 25m
- Eventual Spread: 25m
chestnut 'Marhlac' - chestnut
masses of large, mahogany-red nuts
