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| | | Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) 'Marron de Lyon' Sweet Chestnuts are one of my favourite trees. They were probably introduced to Britain by the Romans, and are still widespread in northern Italy where bees foraging on them produce delicious dark brown honey. Sweet Chestnuts will only yield significant amounts of nectar at higher temperatures, so bees enjoy them in hot summers here. They do have a lot more to recommend as well, which is why they have been so widely planted here over many hundreds of years. Sweet Chestnuts coppice well, which measn they can be maintained as relatively small trees, and grow quickly. Their wood is high quality and burns well; we include them in our wood fuel collection. 'Marron de Lyon' is a grafted cultivar which produces much larger nuts than the native tree, and much quicker; they will provide a good crop after only 3 years, as opposed to 20. The cooked nuts are delicious.
Size: 100 - 125cm
Flowers: June - July
Soil type: Most soils
Supplier : R.V.Roger Ltd.
We donate half of our profit on sales of Sweet Chestnut 'Marron de Lyon' to the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of Sussex
Our Sweet Chestnut trees are supplied bare root. At the height of the lifting season there may be up to a month’s delay between placing the order and dispatching due to pressure of orders, which are dealt with in date sequence, and the weather. Orders for Sweet Chestnut trees taken from March to September are confirmed in September ready for dispatch from November.
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