Posted by
clintbrown (Medina, TN - Zone 7b) on Feb 23, 2013 10:30 PM concerning plant:
These look especially nice in winter after snow.
Posted by
chuck7701 (McKinney, TX (DFW) - Zone 8a) on Mar 22, 2015 10:53 AM concerning plant:
Planted a small one about 3 feet years ago in a sunny location, but soil was too dry. Almost looked diseased. Moved it to am area with more consistently damp soil, and it has grown fabulously. Now about 6 feet tall and wide. Cut and dried branches make great additions to decorative flower arrangements. In zone 8, the hot and dry summer air of these past few drought-type years has seemed to burn the leaf edges, even when watered well.
Looks more striking in winter without the foliage.
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Mar 4, 2020 3:08 PM concerning plant:
I see this contorted cultivar of the European Hazelnut (Filbert) every once in a while in the Midwest or Mid-Atlantic in the USA. I once planted three plants that were about 3 feet high and B&B in a circular island in the driveway and road on the south side of Hinsdale Hospital in northeast Illinois back in the early 1990's. They did fine, but my grounds department boss kept receiving complaints that the plants were wilted. The reason for this is that the leaves are sort of contorted like the stems and look wilted, but aren't. I was ordered to get rid of the contorted filberts, so I gave them to an employee that was always happy to get free things. Nowadays, I'm not really into any bizarre cultivars because I have embraced a more naturalistic horticulture.
I remember one large shrub about 8 feet high in the back yard of a senior citizen community in southeast Pennsylvania that every year needed pruning to remove a bunch of straight growing suckers that came up around the plant and I think even came from below the graft union. That particular plant really put out the suckers a lot, which endangered the grafted contorted cultivar scion of the plant.
Posted by
goldfinch4 (Ripon, Wisconsin) on Oct 2, 2011 4:53 AM concerning plant:
My original plant was only about one foot high. It took quite a while for it to put on any size, but now it's beautiful. I live in an area where we get a lot of snow and when the twisting, contorted branches are covered in snow, this is a gorgeous shrub! In the summer, it really isn't a showy plant. The leaves are nothing special and the catkins are insignificant. Mine does sucker, but the suckers are also contorted. It is susceptible to Eastern Filbert Blight.
