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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Hazelnuts (Corylus) will sucker and sprout back from cut stumps without spreading out and they are a traditional coppice species used for firewood, poles, etc.   The exception is the Turkish Tree Hazel which is a non-suckering species.  The late Cecil Farris in Michigan bred some good quality varieties that were resistant to eastern filbert blight, and it would be worthwhile to look into them.  Remember that for nut production you need two different clones that are pollination compatible.  Try searching for Cecil Farris's hazlenuts.
=Lon Rombough
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On Jan 29, 2007, at 2:50 PM, ethan roland wrote:


If anyone has other suggestions for more 'native' species that can fill the ecological community niche I'm looking for (woody, running/suckering, nitrogen-fixing, fuel-making, food-producing, medicinal, small shrubs or herbaceous perennials), please let me know. I am indeed in a very experimental phase here, and I welcome input + discussion about this little forest garden design.