Why You Need Native Hazelnuts on Your Property!

The native American and beaked hazelnuts are of high value to wildlife and pollinators as they provide food, cover, pollen, and are also a host plant for several moth and butterfly species. They are also edible and quite tasty – if you can beat the critters to them! In this video I cover all the reasons why native hazelnuts should be on your property.

What are your experiences with native hazelnuts? Let us know in the comments!

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to the Native Hazelnuts
0:20 American Hazelnut Corylus americana
1:38 Hazelnut Food Value to Wildlife
2:24 Hazelnut Cover Value to Wildlife
2:57 Hazelnut Wind Pollination and Value to Pollinators
3:16 Beaked Hazelnut Corylus cornuta
4:16 Hazelnut Fall Color and Year-Round Landscape Interest
4:27 Hazelnut Cross Pollination for Nut Production
4:36 Native Hazelnut Planting Stock Availability
4:52 Native Hazelnut Edibility, Taste, and Comparison to Filberts

[ukewarrior]

I deeply appreciate that your videos are fast paced and jam packed with useful information without needless idle chatter and general prattering on. EXCELLENT WORK.

[GlenaGarrett]

Thanks for mentioning that even though each plant has both male and female flowers that you still need two separate plants to cross-pollinate. This is true for many, but not all, plants with this morphology, unfortunately it seems many nurseries don't know or think to tell this to customers.

[bobinmissouri]

I have around 250 American hazelnuts nuts bushes and they are loaded this year

[Peace]

I’m buying 3 bareroot hazelnuts from a local native plant sale this year. I’m excited! So glad you had this video!

[CameronHerc]

It was so cool meeting you last year at our bee meeting. I love your channel and watch frequently.

[jakebarney]

I love woodcock, a video just on them would be fun

[themariamontessorischool]

In our previous home (Outskirts of Vancouver, BC) Hazelnuts lined the roads and large properties, but we rarely harvested a single nut! In addition to the animals you already mentioned we would get black bears arriving in August. They would eat the nuts green! I was awoken many times to sounds of a bear munching green Hazel nuts out side our open window (it was August, but our bedroom was on the second floor). They would hold the branch down with their paws and systematically munch off each nut. 😅

[stephenpickard]

It’s a challenge every year here to beat the squirrels to them. My biggest patch got bush hogged down last year right at harvest time. Enjoy your videos.

[janetconnors]

You stole my heart when you said "pollinate that like button" 😆

[skepticalgenious]

😂 1:05 you've seen outer space pineapple!? I gotta hear this story. Joking but yeah they look like sea anennemi. Weird.

[kittimcconnell]

I have 3 of the american hazelnut that I got from Arbor Day foundation. They're about 5 years old now and just starting to produce flowers and catkins. I got 2 nuts last year. LOL. They are smaller - I didn't try to crack them.
This video makes me want to plant them all along my fence line.

[Tired_Geek]

LOLZ @ outer-space pineable! Another great vid!

[JJLom]

My pet turkey loves them.😄
And, so do i.

[dogrudiyosun]

im writing this comment to people who might consider the tree as ornamental purposes or hobby. you do not necessarily have to buy different hazel species. being non self-compatible doesnt necessarily mean same species cant pollinate each other. the hazel we have has a low value of 45% on self-pollination according to a research with isolated trees. also there are research on which species pollinate which ones better. i cant give info on that because i only know their local names, i believe they are all considered european hazelnut. so we have just a couple of those pollinator hazels that are compatible with our crop hazel in the orchard, like 2 or 3 per acre. and being in an area thats the capital of the hazelnut, everywhere is full of hazel trees so we dont have pollination issues. im sure a single hazelnut tree will fruit in isolation by pollinating itself, just the yield will be low. this pollination thing is similar to the periodicity. some fruits(including hazelnut) are few in some years and abundant the next year. but it doesnt mean a well maintained orchard will have much difference, its merely a tendency. it doesnt mean you will get nothing on the low year. conclusion, it doesnt mean you will get nothing from a single species.

[carolewarner]

Beaked hazelnuts grow out here in Oregon too. We have a lot of it growing wild on our land. We've also planted about 20 hazelnuts (5 varieties) that were crossed to grow really well in our area just recently, and we were careful to protect them from all the deer with fencing. They're delicious and we eat them on our oatmeal every morning, so we're very invested in growing our own successfully! May have to net them to get any from all the wildlife out there, LOL!

[jeffreytraeger]

Very well put together video. Fast paced and full of information. Thank you!

[bill]

Great vid - and I miss seeing Woodcock. I thought they were all gone. Will find some places where I can start some hazelnut groves. (Vigilante botany style).

[davehendricks]

I wish I had seen this video 15 years ago. I bought a couple of hazelnut bushes from out of state. They didn’t make it. By the way Anthony, I just saw a video of a guy out at nite with a bright UV flashlight collecting caterpillars. I never knew many caterpillars glow under UV. Especially if they have any green on their bodies! ( I bought the UV beast high powered flashlight)😁

[BackyardBerry]

Like button pollinated! Love your channel!

[anemone]

Nice. Very interesting. Do the American hazelnuts coppice? Good to hear you advocate planting of local provenance seed. Me too.

Over here in the UK we have Corylus avellana, the hazel. This has been coppiced (cut to ground in the expectation that it will re-grow and to use that regrowth) for over 3000 years. It is still coppiced and economically viable, although the area cut has drastically reduced since World War 1 and again after WW2.