| from "Hazel" contains these words:
|
| To grow them, with a single trunk I assume all the side shoots have
to be
| removed, is this needed for the life of the plant ?
|
| It would be, yes. Standard-trunk hazels would also constantly
produce
| suckers from below ground, which would have to be removed.

Usually, but not always. An established hazel in a wood with a
fairly solid canopy doesn't sucker all that much, and most suckers
die off. Even my hazels (in the 'open') don't ALL sucker.

| I'm wondering if what you saw were alders, far more likely to be grown
| in a plantation of single trunk trees. Young alders look fairly similar
| to hazel in bark and leaf.

If they were ALL single-stemmed, that seems likely. If only SOME
were, they could still be hazels.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

They were hazels, a photo in an article in an old copy of "Country Life"
iirc

Hazel