Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know of one of the project I have been working on for a month or two now. As the plant was in poor condition,. I decided to wait with posting about it.

In one of the garden centra I came across a nice worn down hasel. The plant looked sickly, but for 3,99 beggers can´t be choosers... So I clipped the plant down (The full thing was over 2 meters tall) and took it home.



Some clipping later, and there was improvement in the looks department. I planted the ting in the garden, and let it grow for the last weeks. The result..

That is awesome, leatherback you have all these great transformations man, i cant wait till i can get to that stage!

Hi Keith,

It looks like you have worked your magic once again! Well done! And, what a deal for 3.99!!!
Is the plant's name pronounced "Hazel"?
If this tree was over 2m in height (about 7 feet), you must have chopped it down to 1/3 of that, .8m (about 2.5 feet) in height?

Sorry...although we adopted the metric system of measure years ago here, I learned the standard imperial measure in elementary school and have never been able to make that switch in my head. So to visualize a measure in metric I have to use my slide convertor to translate it into feet, inches, etc. Math never was my strength after the switch. :S

Anyway...how many of the original branches did you keep? I can see one branch in the photo and one wound where a branch was removed right at the base however, I know you removed a lot more than one. The new growth is wonderful! I look forward to following this progression. Thank you for sharing!

Keith? Who is keith?

Yeah, hazel, as in hazel nuts?

I think I chopped it down more than that. The thich trunck section is about 1 feet (30cm). And what I chopped? Some 5 or six branches; You see the mark of one of them at soil level. THere were a bunch of branched that size. Also, the place where the trunck gets a lot thinner is a cut-mark. These cuts are the reason I have let it sprout where it wants untill now: I will give it untill summer next year or so in the full soil to grow out, so it can heal these wounds over a little. After the big spring growth I will have to decide what it will be like. Most likely in winter I will remove a lot of the growth on the base, n order to avoid bigger scars. For now they add to tapering the trunck a bit more. But wat I really want is the thin top branch to bulk up a bit and cover the large (3-4cm across) cut-mark where I remove the main branch.

Lol Keith do you know if that tree is able to get good leaf reduction?

Sorry Jelle...I got your name confused with *manofthetrees-keith* :oops:

Thank you for your answers. It helps me to better visualize this tree as it is now and, where you want to go with it.

LOL here i am...i do believe any tree can be reduced to some extent.the more ramification the more leaves there are to absorb light ,the smaller they have to be to sustain the plant