Re: Filbert questions

This site has some good info:
 http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/c/corave/corave3.html

Hope it helps.  Sounds like suckers from the understock on grafted plants are
the only real problem.

Good luck!
Barb (zone 6/7 southeastern PA)

Gerry/Bob O'Neill wrote:

> Our local nursery is having a clearance sale, and one of their offerings is
> a purple-leafed Filbert (Corylus avellana purpurea, I think) that is marked
> down from $129 to $49. I have wanted one of these for years, ever since I
> saw one at the Greensboro, NC Arboretum. Unfortunately, I can find no info
> on it, and the nursery people weren't much help (doesn't that just fry you,
> when the nursery that sells the plant doesn't know about them?)..
>
> Anyway..The tag says that it is hardy either to Z3 or Z8, can't make out
> which. I assume it's Z3 since it is doing well in Greensboro, but still...
>
> What are the mature dimensions, roughly? The one at Greensboro is a large
> shrubby mass, with almost a weeping habit as I recall (8 ft high by 10 ft
> diam or so, but I don't know if this is mature or not).
>
> What are it's rooting habits, deep or shallow? I want to establish a bed
> around it. Or am I better off using it as a lawn specimen?
>
> Anything else critical, such as "You'll be sorry?"  ;-)
>
> Gerry
>
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