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Tree ID & Care
I believe after googling and checking images, I think this may be a 'Corkscrew Hazel'
Is this correct? And are the leaves supposed to be a little crinkly. The leaves look a little like it's in need of some TLC!
As you can see from the rear view, it's quite bare. This tree was completely swamped with things growing through it and behind it which have now been removed.
Do you recommend I do anything to it? I'm not sure if it's healthy or not.
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wish my hair would do the same
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
corylus avellana contorta , if you want the common name. It often sends up straight suckers from the rootstock, but yours hasn't. Give it time and , as pansyface says, it'll sprout back out on the other side, unlike your hair.
It did have straight suckers running straight up, or branches. Not sure of the correct name
. I cut them off last week when I tidied things up. I actually thought they must have been another type of hazel growing around it!
Are you supposed to cut the straight suckers back and if so should this be done at a certain time of year?