ONE of the winter highlights in my garden is the gnarled silhouette of the "corkscrew hazel" - Corylus avellana 'Contorta'. In low sunshine, the pale sky provides the perfect backdrop for its dark and ...

Tino shows us how to prune a hazelnut tree for better nut production. Hazelnuts (Corylus avellana cv.) are a great looking tree, will grow in most soil types, and cope with frost. But best of all they ...

Our native hazel (Corylus avellana) has golden catkins and snuff-brown hazelnuts enclosed in a brown-paper collar. Imagine instead pink catkins followed by claret-coloured nuts enclosed in a much ...

Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick (Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’) is an ornamental filbert grown for its twisted, gnarly stems. Unfortunately, a devastating fungus disease has moved into our area that can ...

It has been so cold and frosty in the garden recently that no time, save for a quick walk around, has been spent outside. It’s frustrating to look out from the house to see the lawn once again white ...