Common Walnut, Large Trees

Juglans regia: Bareroot Common Walnut Trees in Standard Sizes

The Common Walnut tree, Juglans regia, is large, and slow-growing, spreading widely into a shaggy, round headed specimen when mature. Its leaves are aromatic when they are young and turn a rich golden yellow in the autumn. It produces delicious nuts in the autumn, starting about 10 years from planting.

They will grow to about 30 metres and can sometimes spread wider than that.

We also deliver younger walnut saplings, and black walnuts, Juglans nigra.
Browse our large garden trees, or all of our trees.

Delivery season: Walnut trees are delivered bareroot during late autumn and winter, approximately November-March inclusive.
Choosing a size: Small trees are cheaper, easier to handle and more forgiving of less than ideal aftercare, so they are best for a big planting project. If instant impact is your priority, or if you are only buying a few plants for use in a place where it is convenient to water them well in their first year, then you may as well use bigger ones. All our bareroot trees are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

Features:

• Height: 30m
• Crops October
• Soil: Any well drained, sunny
• Naturalised in South
• Bareroot delivery only: November-March

Growing Walnuts

Clay soil in warm areas is fine, light and well drained is recommended in the North, also shelter.

Using long sticks, ideally with smooth or padded tips, to rattle the branches when the nuts are nearly ripe in late September and early October helps to save your crop from the squirrels.

Growing trees tall and straight for timber is effectively the opposite of growing them open and branching for the biggest accessible crops. Timber trees are grown close to other trees and have side branches removed. Trees for nuts are grown in the open and have their central leader cut at a manageable height, and wide branching is encouraged.