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European Filbert (Corylus avellana)

Exposure: Full sun to part shade. Zone 3.
Soil: Grows best in well-drained, loamy soils with regular moisture.
Growth habits: Medium to fast growing multiple stemmed shrubs or small trees growing from 12-20 feet tall and often forming a dense thicket. Hazels have quite ornamental catkins through the winter that fill out and color up in early spring. The nuts develop in late summer and can be harvested up to one month before they would be ripe on the plant and ripening indoors to avoid them becoming wildlife food. Hazels are a host plant for the truffle, our most delectable mushroom. Two matched varieties are needed for nut production.
Landscape uses: Makes a reliable shrub for foundation plantings, shrub borders or hedges. It makes an excellent companion plant in the orchard or shrub border due to its ability to fix nitrogen.
Edible/Medicinal properties: Produces small to medium-sized, flavorful, very nutritional nuts that go so well with chocolate. The wood is highly valued for crafts for being tough, flexible, and durable for use in wattle fencing or basketry.

$45.00/5 gal

Available Varieties

‘Delta’ – Newly released variety with complete immunity to Eastern Filbert Blight. Late flowering, pollinates with Clark, Lewis, Tonda di Giffoni & VR 431. Small round nuts.

‘Gamma’ - Blight immune. Productive of medium-small nuts. An excellent pollinator for Yamhill, Barcelona, Lewis, Clark, Santiam, Delta & Tonda di Giffoni.

‘Jefferson’ - immunity to Eastern Filbert Blight disease and high resistance to big bud mite. Produces a heavy yield of large flavorful nuts that fill their shells well. Similar to the standard Barcelona variety, but with fewer blanks and with a low incidence of shriveled kernels and moldy nuts. A late bloomer. Pollinates with Yamhill and Gamma.

‘Lewis’ - Very excellent blight resistant cultivar. It produces commercial quality flavorful nuts that ripen very early. Pollinates with all varieties except Jefferson.

‘Purple Fortin’ - purple catkin flowers in winter and purple foliage in spring and summer fading to bronze. Purple clusters of nuts mid-late summer.

'Red Fortin' - red catkin flowers in winter and red foliage in spring and summer fading to bronze. Clusters of nuts in flared red husks ripen mid-late summer. Nut isn't covered by husk like it is for Purple Fortin.

‘Rosita’ (pollinate with Purple Fortin) - deep red foliage that lasts well into the summer

‘Yamhill’ - The best kernel variety that is available at this time that has complete immunity to Eastern Filbert Blight. A small tree, productive of nice round nuts that are early ripening. Pollinates with Barcelona, Gem, Halle's Giant, Delta, Gamma and Tonda di Giffoni.

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