Also Known as "Corkscrew Hazel"...
For Jim, and to introduce my corylus to its bigger cousin in Kentucky.
My corkscrew hazel lives in an old kiln saggar.
I used to sell saggars as garden pots, back in the day, I bought them wholesale from Acme Marls, in Stoke-on-Trent.
hey soubriquet... a thing of beauty is a joy forever. mine will be 20 in a week or so and it was a mere 18" tall when i got it. it almost blocks our front steps because i can't bear to trim it back too much. acquaintances grouse but they just don't understand. yours in that saggar pot is probably on it's way to being a bonsai corkscrew.
ReplyDeleteIt lives in a saggar mostly because when I got it I couldn't decide what to do with it. I come and go by the back door, very rarely the front. I could, I suppose, let it free there, but.. I have a few things in pots at the back, they make me smile.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first came here, there was an apple and a willow there, but I really needed the off-street parking, so I levelled it and knocked the wall down.
I've planted a eucalyptus though. I confidently expect that this year it will start to launch toward space, in twenty years it will be over eighty feet high. But who knows? in twenty years, where will I be?
I'd like to be a johnny appleseed and do guerilla plantings in random places.
I want a eucryphia.
i admire this little corkscrew. i can hear it huffing and puffing as it strains to hang its catkins: "I'll hang my catkins wherevers I pleases, dammit." and it does. pleases.
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