Fruit-bearing trees enrich every green space: they bloom in spring and provide plenty of food for insects. In summer they provide shade and in autumn you can snack on the harvested fruits. Apple trees and hazelnut bushes are extremely popular, and we will highlight their advantages here.
An apple tree or a hazelnut bush: which is better?
Both treesare ecologicallyvaluableand represent a realprofit for insects, birds and other animals. Hazelnuts are small powerhouses that provide many nutrients and vitamins. Apples are also very he althy and also boost the immune system.
What is the difference between apple tree and hazelnut bush?
Apple tree and hazelnut bushdifferin theirgrowth habit, theflowersand theFruits:
| Apple tree | Hazelnut bush | |
|---|---|---|
| Growth habit | High trunk, half trunk, bush or column | Multi-stemmed shrub up to seven meters high. |
| leaves | Egg-shaped, serrated, leaf edges curved upwards. | Rounded, double serrated. |
| Flowers | Pink-white cup flowers. | Male flowers: Hanging catkins. Female flowers: Resemble a bud with a red stigma. |
| Fruits | Green, yellow or reddish. The core housing consists of five chambers in which the cores are located. | Nuts in a cup-like shell with jagged edges that dries out until ripe. |
What are the advantages of an apple tree?
A large apple tree providesbeesand other insects with valuablefoodanddonatesits shapely crown in the summer monthsShadow. It can provide the whole family with juicy, aromatic and very he althy fruits, which can be stored for many weeks depending on the apple variety.
Bush or columnar apples can also be integrated into small gardens and an apple tree grown on a trellis can serve as a privacy screen or beautify a wall.
Why should I cultivate a hazelnut bush?
A hazelnut bush isrobust,requireshardly any careand still produces arich harvest every autumn. The versatile hazelnuts are very he althy. They can be eaten raw and enrich sweet dishes or muesli.
Hazelnut bushes provide valuable food for bees and other insects from February onwards, before the leaves emerge. Numerous caterpillars eat the leaves and the nuts are extremely popular with woodpeckers, nuthatches, jays, squirrels and dormice.
Do apple trees and hazelnut bushes harmonize?
If you have a sufficiently large garden, you can easily cultivate the two trees next to each otherApple trees appreciate locations protected from the wind. For this reason, they benefit from a place behind a sprawling hazelnut bush, where they can grow in the sun but protected.
Tip
Apple trees and cultivated hazelnuts need a pollinator
Apple trees rely on cross-pollination. Therefore, make sure that there is a suitable pollinator variety in the neighborhood. The cultivated hazelnut bush is also a cross-pollinator. If there is no wild hazelnut bush or other cultivated hazel nearby, you should cultivate at least two varieties for this reason.
