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    CARPINUS
    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.

    Full Plant Details - Sun/Soil & other attributes
    • Good to know
      Attractive specimen trees and excellent for hedging.
    • Deciduous
    • Tree
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    Carpinus - Growing Guide
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    varieties
    CARPINUS betulus
    Common hornbeam
     
    Pot grown
    £12.00
    CARPINUS fargesiana
    Chinese hornbeam, Hornbeam, Vietnamese hornbeam
    Elegant weeping branches and long decorative hop-like seed clusters hang
     
    2 Litre
    £25.00
    Unavailable
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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
    Estimated availability autumn 2026 Any time SEPT-DEC
    Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.
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    Useful extras...

    Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
    Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi
    Recommended by the RHS. Contains Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal fungi. Suitable for all trees and shrubs (except rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers, cranberries and blueberries)
    Small - 60g sachet
    £3.00
    Medium - 150gm sachet
    £6.00
    Large - 360gram sachet
    £12.00
    Unavailable
    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
    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
    Unavailable
    2.5 kg
    £13.00
    Unavailable
    4.5 kg
    £25.00
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