The highlights
- Spring catkins and sweet edible chestnuts
- Enormous value to native wildlife
- Average growth rate – 20-40cm per year
- Grows up to 12m or keep trimmed at 1-5m
Description
- A beautiful deciduous hedge producing edible nuts
- Large, toothed glossy green leaves turning golden yellow and bronze in the autumn. Long yellow catkins appear in spring, and your hedge will produce sweet, edible chestnuts in autumn
- A hardy plant with an average growth rate of 20-40cm per year
- Enormous value to native wildlife – attracts pollinating insects in spring plus birds and small mammals all year round
