Re: Filbert questions
- Subject: Re: Filbert questions
- From: J* G* a* O* P*
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:45:31 GMT
The message <3.0.32.20011030072649.007a6860@pop1.attglobal.net>
from "Gerry/Bob O'Neill" <eoneill@attglobal.net> contains these words:
> 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.
> 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
I think it's likely to be what is more usually called Corylus maxima
'Purpurea'. Either way, it's likely to get about 20' tall maximum and
spread of about 15'. It tends to be rather shrubby in its habit
("shrubby mass" describes it well) though I think you could perhaps
train it to a single trunk. Shapeliness is not its chief virtue though.
No horrors that I know of but it seems rather expensive. You can get
small ones which establish well for about £3 here (UK)(Is that under $10?)
Janet G
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