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Common Walnut - Juglans Regia - Standard Trees

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Common Walnut - Large Standard Trees

A large, slow-growing tree, the Common Walnut spreads widely into a shaggy, round headed tree when mature. Its leaves are very aromatic when they are young and turn a rich golden yellow in the autumn. It produces delicious nuts in the autumn, starting about 5-10 years from planting.
These are the largest size of walnut tree that we deliver, you can also buy younger sapling Common Walnuts here. We also grow Black Walnut trees.
There is an old saying: "A woman, a dog and a walnut tree; the harder they are beaten, the better they be", which is as true of walnuts as it is wrong about the other two! Using long sticks, ideally with padded tips, to rattle the branches when the nuts are nearly ripe in late September and early October is the best way to save your crop from the squirrels.
Walnut trees are often grown for their superb timber, which is valuable whether it is straight grained or wavy. Seasoned walnut wood doesn't warp or swell, so it is used for the highest quality pieces of furniture.

Growing Common Walnut Trees
These aren't the hardiest trees and while they will grow in the North, they are unlikely to make many nuts unless they have a really sheltered position that isn't prone to frost. They don't like cold clay soils, preferring lighter earth with good drainage that warms up quickly in the spring. The do not grow well in the shade.
Walnut trees will grow to about 30 metres and can sometimes be even wider than that, so make sure your trees have space.

Most people think of Common Walnuts as native trees and they are often called the English Walnut. The truth is that their native range is from Greece to Japan and they are most commonly found growing wild in Iran, Iraq and Syria. The first walnuts were brought to Britain by the Romans and they were preserved and bred by monasteries during the Dark Ages that followed the collapse of Roman power.

Please watch our tree planting video for full planting instructions.

How Standard Trees are Measured:
All the plants in the ornamental trees section are graded as standards, which means that they are measured by their girth in centimetres 1 metre above ground level (basically, their trunk's waist measurement). They aren't measured by their height, which will vary.

So, a 6/8 standard has a trunk with a circumference of 6-8 centimetres and an 8/10 standard has a trunk 8-10 centimetres around.

This measurement makes no difference to the tree's final height. Most standards are between 2 - 3.5 metres tall, but this is just an average. We cannot tell you how tall your trees will be before we deliver them.



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