Nut Trees

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Pre-Order Bareroot Trees For 2025/26 Winter Planting Season

Hazelnuts (Corylus varieties), Chestnuts (Castanea sativa), and Walnuts (Juglans varieties) are indeed types of fruit trees, botanically speaking, and they all taste good together with chocolate.

Hazels are one of the easiest trees to grow, suitable for any garden; the only challenge in some areas is keeping the squirrels off them.

Walnuts mature into large trees, and do not crop so well in exposed or frosty sites.

Sweet chestnuts produce probably the most delicious nut of any tree in the UK.

Buying Nut Trees

Barerooted nut trees are delivered between November and the end of March, the winter planting season.Selected varieties are available pot grown year round.

• Order now, pay later: we don't charge your card until before delivery
• When your order is ready: your mail order fruit trees are delivered by next working day courier (not the next working day after ordering!)
• Friendly support: if there is anything wrong with your plants when you inspect them, Contact Us within 5 working days

All bareroot plants are covered by our Refund Guarantee, so you can give them a whirl with complete confidence.

Nut trees are very easy to grow and tend to be disease free. 

Which Nut Trees Should I Choose?

For the average garden, the comparatively small, even shrubby, hazelnut varieties are far and away the most popular.They can make a wonderful, wildlife friendly hedge or tall windbreak.

Given full sun, they crop heavily with few problems on almost any soil, including wet sites that waterlog in winter; on poor soils, a yearly mulching is important to keep the soil moist. They are very shade-tolerant, but won't crop well in less than half a day of sun.

For serious nut production, we don't recommend the wild common hazel, Corylus avellana, or wild Filberts (Green or Purple): use cultivars like Cosfords, which we have grown with a single "short leg" trunk. Cultivated hazelnuts are called Cobnuts.

Walnuts are big trees, not suitable for a small garden.

• The Common English Walnut, Juglans regia, (it's really Persian, like all the best fruit!) has the best flavour, and its shells are much easier to crack. The tree is considerably slower growing, and its timber is relatively soft.
• The Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, has an earthier, more pungent flavour that makes it less popular for eating raw, and more useful for processing into flavourings. The husks are messy to remove (wear gloves!) and the shells are tough, but as a survival food it is more nutritious than its cousin.  The tree is much faster growing, and its hard timber is prized.

Sweet chestnuts, Castanea sativa, are also big trees, and of the three species, have the most delicious nuts, which are more like a protein rich grain in culinary terms. 

What type of nut trees can grow in the UK?

Only three edible nuts grow really well in the UK: the Walnuts (Common and Black), Sweet chestnut, and hazelnut or cobnut. Almonds can crop well in the warmest parts of the South and West, but an overcast Summer will ruin that year's harvest.