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 ...

Corylus avellana "contorta" is an unusual deciduous shrub that appears best in the winter landscape. Known as Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, it is named for the early 20th-century comedian, Harry ...

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 ...

In that decade, Ferraro Rocher’s factory has quadrupled in size and it now processes 24,000 tons of those goodies’ primary ingredient, after chocolate: hazelnuts. But the company has to buy over 90 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract An experimental rooting system was developed to study in vitro adventitious root formation in hazelnut cotyledons. Experiments involved a) ...

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 ...