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Cosford Hazelnut / Cobnut Trees

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Corylus avellana

  • Height: To 4m
  • Any well drained soil: poorly fertile, light and sandy or rocky is best
  • Great crop for inferior soils
  • Yellow catkins on the branches in winter
  • Harvest: September
  • Bareroot delivery only: November-March
Choose a plant form
Bareroot
What to expect
Choose a size
  • Maiden: Unbranched tree, the most basic starting size, which you can train into the other forms (apart from mini patio trees; we only sell Little Miss Figgy), including wire-trained cordons, fans, and espaliers.
    • Some maidens are pre-cut to 80cm, ready to become a Bush, or 130cm, ready to become a Half-Standard.
  • Bush: Branched tree with a short trunk about 60cm tall.
    Will grow to about 3m. Ideal for any size garden.
  • Half-Standard: Branched tree with a trunk about 120cm tall.
    Will grow into a full sized, "normal" tree, about 4m. Ideal for orchards & large gardens, easy to mow underneath.
Bush
Bareroot
£32.99each
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10 +
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£ 32.99
£ 29.99
£ 26.99
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Despatched From November 2025

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Description

Corylus avellana 'Cosford': Bareroot Hazelnut Trees on Single "Short Leg" Trunks

Cosford is a "quality over quantity" variety, probably the most widely cultivated hazelnut for harvesting, and the plants on this page are grown as cropping trees on a short leg or bush trunk, not as hazel hedging. They have a relatively easy to crack shell.
Hazels have nice Autumn colour and pretty yellow catkins on the bare branches in winter, which open around February as an early food source for bees.

Browse our nut trees, fruit trees, or ornamental garden trees.


Delivery season: Hazelnut trees are delivered bareroot during late autumn and winter, approximately November-March inclusive.

Features:

  • Height: To 4m
  • Soil: Any well drained: poorly fertile, light and sandy or rocky is best
  • Great crop for inferior soils
  • Yellow catkins on the branches in winter
  • Harvest: September
  • Bareroot delivery only: November-March

Growing Cosford Hazelnuts

Hazelnuts crop best in full sun or light shade on quite light or rocky soil with moderate-to-low fertility. 
Rich, fertile soil will encourage more woody growth, not fruit.
Suitable for large containers designed for trees.

Hazelnuts can be eaten when they are still green, or stored to dry and turn brown for the best flavour.

Hazel is usually not self fertile and requires a pollination partner, because the male catkins and female flowers on a given plant tend to open at different times.
However, Hazel is such a common tree and hedge plant in the UK that there is almost always a local partner, but to ensure full pollination you can use any other hazelnut: we recommend the lovely purple Filbert.
Cosford itself is an excellent pollinator for other varieties.

Planting Instructions

Did You Know?

First recorded in 1816, it is named after the Cosford Hundred in Suffolk, which is a historical subdivision of a county, centred around Hadleigh in this case.

What to expect

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