Help us record hazel tree flowers this winter! 🌳 🌰 Hazel catkins are the male flowers of the #HazelTree. They’re a fluffy sign of a woodland in mid-winter and the first step towards a hazelnut crop, but did you know they can also help us track the impacts of weather and climate change on #wildlife? 🌡️ The timing of hazel flowering events in the UK is temperature dependent and is influenced by winter temperatures in December to February. 📈 According to the #StateOfUKClimate report, hazel flow

In spring, hazel is laden with lovely 'lambs tail' catkins and in autumn it produces delicious nuts popular with people and wildlife. Why not plant one in your own garden? It can even be planted as part of a native hedgerow. It responds well to close pruning and will create a haven for wildlife. The nuts are eaten by woodpeckers, nuthatches, jays and native mammals such as red squirrel, wood mouse and bank vole. Plus caterpillars love the leaves! Get yours from our native tree shop http://www.wo

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