corkscrew hazel
Susie Thompson
hazel that's beginning to take over our patio before we start spending a
lot more time sitting out in the garden. Is it too late to prune it? If
it's ok to prune, can the prunings be used as cuttings for rooting
purposes? It's really squiggly and contorted and consequently very
decorative. If I can propagate some more, they'll make a welcome
addition to the hedges around the garden. At the moment it's festooned
with catkins, which look wonderful when they dance in the light breezes
we've had over the past few days.
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Susie Thompson
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Pete The Gardener
"Gina Astle" <gina....@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> i planted a corylus avellana contorta (corkscrew hazel)about this time
last
> year and now i need to move it .will it come to any harm ?if so when or if
> would be the best time to move it . thanks
>
You would be best waiting until it has gone dormant in the autumn. If you
can't wait that long then do it now, dig the hole for it before lifting,
water the hole, dig up the Corylus with as much root and soil as possible,
and replant in the new hole immediately with a little general purpose
fertiliser worked into the soil. After planting water in and water regularly
through the summer. Don't move it when there is a drying wind or when frost
is expected.
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brian cass
Susie Thompson wrote in message ...
>I'm really going to have to cut back the 10 feet high and wide corkscrew
>hazel that's beginning to take over our patio before we start spending a
>lot more time sitting out in the garden. Is it too late to prune it? If
>it's ok to prune, can the prunings be used as cuttings for rooting
>purposes? It's really squiggly and contorted and consequently very
>decorative. If I can propagate some more, they'll make a welcome
>addition to the hedges around the garden. At the moment it's festooned
>with catkins, which look wonderful when they dance in the light breezes
>we've had over the past few days.
Our twisted Hazel (the plant, not my daughter of the same name) seems to be
grafted onto an ordinary Hazel root stock, so I have to be careful to cut
out any "straight" shoots coming up from the bottom. This makes me suspect
it might be a poor performer on its own root stock? But I've never tried to
propagate it by cuttings - what have you got to lose by giving it a go? If
it works, please let me know.
Brian.
Gina Astle
john taverner
<cass...@dircon.co.uk> writes
>
>
>Our twisted Hazel (the plant, not my daughter of the same name) seems to be
>grafted onto an ordinary Hazel root stock, so I have to be careful to cut
>out any "straight" shoots coming up from the bottom. This makes me suspect
>it might be a poor performer on its own root stock? But I've never tried to
>propagate it by cuttings - what have you got to lose by giving it a go? If
>it works, please let me know.
>
>Brian.
>
>
I have had my hazel for 19yrs. I cut it back in late summer and give the
bits to friends who are flower arrangers. ( Notcutts sell at £2.oo
each!!!
I have peanut feeder in it, and all birds love the protectiveness of the
leaves.
jt
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Kay Easton
>>I'm really going to have to cut back the 10 feet high and wide corkscrew
>>hazel that's beginning to take over our patio before we start spending a
>>lot more time sitting out in the garden. Is it too late to prune it? If
>>it's ok to prune, can the prunings be used as cuttings for rooting
>>purposes? It's really squiggly and contorted and consequently very
>>decorative. If I can propagate some more, they'll make a welcome
>>addition to the hedges around the garden. At the moment it's festooned
>>with catkins, which look wonderful when they dance in the light breezes
>>we've had over the past few days.
>
>
>grafted onto an ordinary Hazel root stock, so I have to be careful to cut
>out any "straight" shoots coming up from the bottom. This makes me suspect
>it might be a poor performer on its own root stock? But I've never tried to
>propagate it by cuttings - what have you got to lose by giving it a go? If
>it works, please let me know.
I tried a couple last year, and one at least still has green buds on it.
I don't know whether it has actually rooted, and it's a bit soon to dig
it up and see, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed ..
--
Kay Easton
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Susie Thompson
<k...@scarboro.demon.co.uk> writes
>I tried a couple last year, and one at least still has green buds on it.
>I don't know whether it has actually rooted, and it's a bit soon to dig
>it up and see, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed ..
I wonder if things would work better if I could pull off some heeled
cuttings rather than pruned lengths? Would pulling off heeled lengths
at this time of the year do too much damage to it? With the amount
that's got to come off the corkscrew hazel, surely just one of the
cuttings might root?!?
I'll have a go at cuttings/prunings at the weekend, and see what
happens, unless someone tells me that it's inadvisable. Is there any
point in putting rooting powder or any other similar compound on them,
would it help or hinder things? I think that this hazel must be on its
own rootstock, because in the 12 years that I've had it, there have
never been 'straight' new growths coming up from the bottom. Kay, if
I'm lucky enough to end up with a forest of corkscrew hazel some time in
the future, I'll let you know :-)))
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I have tried many sorts of cuttings of it at various times of the year, and
the best I did was semi ripe cuttings using Indolo-tri-butic acid at 15'000
ppm and after 10 months I had large calluses on stems but no root. I should
have sliced these half away and put them to root again but didn't think till
it was to late.
But one day I WILL root them. I don't like being told that I cant do
something.
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Kay Easton
<clou...@nospamcloudsley.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <DOvStAA6$z14...@scarboro.demon.co.uk>, Kay Easton
><k...@scarboro.demon.co.uk> writes
>>I tried a couple last year, and one at least still has green buds on it.
>>I don't know whether it has actually rooted, and it's a bit soon to dig
>>it up and see, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed ..
>
>I wonder if things would work better if I could pull off some heeled
>cuttings rather than pruned lengths? Would pulling off heeled lengths
>at this time of the year do too much damage to it? With the amount
>that's got to come off the corkscrew hazel, surely just one of the
>cuttings might root?!?
you can always pull a heeled cutting off a pruning!
Susie Thompson
<toto...@mail.pacificcoast.net> writes
>I don't believe the books are right. Nearly every Harry Lauder's that
>I've seen has those damnable suckers, but a few plants turn out to be
>sucker free. My guess is that they were propagated by either cuttings
>or layers.
>
>Has anyone tried planting a grafted specimen with the graft union well
>below the soil line? This is an old trick for grafted tree peonies
>that gets them onto their own roots in time. Maybe it would work with
>the corkscrew hazel.
>
Thanks for all the advice and comments. After reading Rodger's comments
above, tomorrow morning I'm going to have a good look around the base of
the corkscrew hazel, which has several smallish 'trunks'. I've never
had a 'straight' sucker come up from the base of it during the 10 or
more years I've had it. It'll be interesting to see if there are any
squiggly growths are coming up from beneath ground level - if there are
I'll see if I can extricate one. Will let you know what I find.
Rodger Whitlock
<da...@abacusnurseries.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> All the books say that the only way to propagate it is by grafting.
I don't believe the books are right. Nearly every Harry Lauder's that
I've seen has those damnable suckers, but a few plants turn out to be
sucker free. My guess is that they were propagated by either cuttings
or layers.
Has anyone tried planting a grafted specimen with the graft union well
below the soil line? This is an old trick for grafted tree peonies
that gets them onto their own roots in time. Maybe it would work with
the corkscrew hazel.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Susie Thompson
<clou...@nospamcloudsley.demon.co.uk> writes
> After reading Rodger's comments
>above, tomorrow morning I'm going to have a good look around the base of
>the corkscrew hazel, which has several smallish 'trunks'. I've never
>had a 'straight' sucker come up from the base of it during the 10 or
>more years I've had it. It'll be interesting to see if there are any
>squiggly growths are coming up from beneath ground level - if there are
>I'll see if I can extricate one. Will let you know what I find.
>
found four or five likely looking longish shoots (with squiggles) coming
up from the base of the original corkscrew hazel. Is it too late this
year to try removing and growing them on? Help, please. TIA