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    CARPINUS
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    CARPINUS

    Commonly known as Hornbeam

    Attractive specimen trees grown for their elegant habit, ornamental foliage, autumn colour and pendent racemes of fruit. Male and female catkins on same tree in spring. Hardier than beech and tolerates wet soil much better.

    Hornbeams yield very hard timber which is difficult to work. Long-lasting items such as tool handles, coach wheels, shoe lasts and gear pegs for windmills have been worked from this "ironwood".

    Genus of about 40 species of deciduous trees from woodland in Europe, Asia and North America.

    The UK native C. betulus, most common in the southeast, and rare in Scotland and Ireland, is favoured by the elusive hawfinch which is fond of the seeds which fall from October.

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    • Good to know
      Attractive specimen trees and excellent for hedging.
    • Deciduous
    • Tree
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    Carpinus - Growing Guide
    Trees - Care Guide

    Varieties
    CARPINUS betulus
    Common hornbeam
     
    Pot grown
    £12.00
    CARPINUS betulus 'Fastigiata'
    Common hornbeam
    Upright columnar growing form
     
    Whip
    £25.00
    CARPINUS betulus 'Rockhampton Red'
    Excellent autumn colour in fiery orange and red
     
    Whip
    £25.00
    CARPINUS caroliniana 'Red Fall'
    American hornbeam.
    Red new growth turns green in summer. Spectacular autumn colour, orange-red.
     
    2 to 3 Litre
    £30.00
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    CARPINUS fangiana
    Fang's hornbeam
    Perhaps the most striking and unusual of all hornbeams which is a serious 'must have' for any collector. Bronze young leaves and long clusters of fruits with toothed bracts
     
    Grafted
    £30.00
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    CARPINUS fargesiana
    Chinese hornbeam, Hornbeam, Vietnamese hornbeam
    Elegant weeping branches and long decorative hop-like seed clusters hang
     
    2 Litre
    £25.00
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    CARPINUS japonica
    A beautiful spreading tree with corrugated leaves and conspicuous fruiting catkins from an early age
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £25.00
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    CARPINUS kawakamii
    Small tree in cultivation. Serrated leaves and long catkins. Evergreen in our climate in Cornwall
     
    2 Litre
    £25.00
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    CARPINUS polyneura
    Reddish-purple new growth of willow-like appearance. Strongly veined leaves with long pinted tips
     
    2 to 3 Litre
    £25.00
    CARPINUS tschonoskii
    Hornbeam
    An elegant small tree from Japan with slender hairy young stems
     
    2 Litre
    £25.00
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    Useful extras...

    Fertilisers & Feeds - Vitax
    Q4 Pelleted Fertiliser
    A useful fertiliser suitable for use on a wide variety of plants. Q4 provides all the nutrients and trace elements essential for vigorous growth, abundant flowering and ripening of fruit.
    0.9 kg
    £6.00
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    2.5 kg
    £13.00
    4.5 kg
    £25.00
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Vitax
    Blood, Fish & Bone
    Improves vegetable, fruit and flower quality. Blood, Fish and Bone contains three major nutrients essential for strong and healthy growth.
    1.5 kg
    £6.50
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
    All-purpose Seaweed Stimulant
    All-purpose organic concentrated seaweed feed that is a ready to use, derived from sustainable harvested kelp, that can be used on all outdoor and indoor plants, except acid loving plants. Perfect used in conjunction with Rootgrow™.
    1 ltr
    £8.50
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