by Alison Bentley
During my travels through Scotland and England in August I could not stop myself from studying hazelnut trees!
I never came across a commercial orchard, but there were plenty of hedge-rows of plain hazelnuts, or mixed species including hazelnuts.
I was studying what age wood the nuts were on. The pattern I was seeing was small wood=small nuts. Definitely a huge range of varieties. Where trees had been cut, there was definite evidence that nuts were bigger and more plentiful on second year wood.
Hedge-row hazelnuts growing in Aviemore, Scotland (top left and top middle).
Hazelnuts growing on the railway verge in England. Strong growth, big nuts. (Photos top right and bottom left and right).
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