Hall’s Giant Hazel Back To List Description: Hall's Giant, also known as Merveille de Bolwiller is a traditional variety. Produces a very large attractive nut with glossy rust-brown shell. Resistant to nut gall mite. Excellent quality and great flavour. Very easy to grow, great for beginners. History: France Hazel Growing Tips: Best grown on shallow, less than fertile soils. The nuts can be stored 'wet' in winter in moist sand and will remain edible and in good condition until they germinate. All varieties contain healthy mon-saturated fats. After coppicing, sturdy vigorous one year shoots are used for basket weaving, hurdles, and the top of newly laid hedges or pegs for thatching. Make sure you harvest the nuts daily to avoid the attention of hungry vermin! All hazels have separate male and female parts on the same tree (monoecious) but need cross pollination from another variety. There are no fully self-fertile varieties, partial at best. Pollination Partners: Filbert Cosford and Hazel Gunslebert. Attributes Uses: Cooking Uses: Eating Picking month: Mid September Back To List Find a local stockist by selecting your county: Select a CountyAberdeenshireAngusArgyllshireAvonAyrshireBedfordshireBerkshireBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCardiffCarmarthenshireCeredigionChannel IslandsCheshireClwydConwyCornwallCumbriaDenbighshireDerbyshireDevonDorsetDumfriesshireDunbartonshireDurhamEast LothianEast SussexEssexFifeGlamorganGloucestershireGwentGwyneddHampshireHerefordshireHertfordshireHumbersideInverness-shireIsle of ManKentLanarkshireLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonLondonderryManchesterMerionethMerseysideMid GlamorganMiddlesexMidlothianMonmouthshireMontgomeryshireMorayshireNorfolkNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshirePembrokeshirePerthshirePowysRenfrewshireRoxburghshireRutlandShropshireSomersetSouth YorkshireStaffordshireStirlingshireSuffolkSurreyTaysideTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest LothianWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWigtownshireWiltshireWorcestershireYorkshire Search Discover these similar varieties… Gustav Zeller Hazel More recent commercial selection producing two or three times the crop of the old Kentish Cob with much larger fruit. Full Details Ennis Hazel A very large nut of super flavour and texture. Compact tree habit. Full Details Gunslebert Hazel Very heavy and reliable crops of medium-large nuts with good texture and strong nutty flavour. Full Details Corabel Hazel Large nuts with sweet flavour. Vigorous upright tree with abundant catkins and heavy, regular crops. Full Details
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