The hazelnut plant catalog
Our Hybrid Hazelnuts are multi-generation selections from crosses between wild American hazels, wild beaked hazels, and European hazels. They are bushes, not trees. All plants sold are seedlings, so performance will vary. In other words, some seedlings of "Large" parents will bear smaller nuts and vice-versa. About 60% of seedlings strongly resemble the parent.
These hazel bushes are generally 10–12 feet tall and 6–8 feet across at maturity. If neglected or stressed, they may grow slowly for the first 1–2 years while they are putting down deep roots. Plant 3 feet apart for snow fence, 6 feet for maximum nut production. "Double plant" if you can afford it—you'll wind up with a better planting after thinning.
These bushes are absolutely cold hardy to Zone 4. Spring freezes will not affect the crop. We have many growers reporting success in zone 3, but commercial cropping there is still experimental.
Unless designated as Experimental, our hazels carry a lifetime replacement guarantee for any that ever die of Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB) (read our guarantee in detail).
Looking for something to eat? Visit our nut order page.
For more detailed information, see the Hazel Info Pages, and for some quick answers check out the FAQ.
Find out why we don't sell seed.
Catalog Table of Contents:
We now take e-mail orders and accept secure online payment with credit/debit card and PayPal. See Ordering for details on how to place your order!
We take orders for plants up to 12 months in advance of desired shipping.
Availability of standard tubelings for the 2008 season is excellent. Please contact us regarding orders of more that 2,000 plants to discuss delivery timing.
Prices rise from time to time, due to rising oil/shipping costs. All prices are honored according to the prices that are listed at the time your order is placed. We will not increase your prices after you've made your order.
Because of limited availability of some plant types, we cannot guarantee to fill all orders. See Additional Information.
Hybrid Hazelnut Tubelings
Please see What is a Tubeling? if you are not familiar with this term.
Hazelnuts for Wildlife, Snow Fences, or Windbreaks
The following classes of Wildlife hazel bushes bear nuts that are actually smaller than wild American hazelnuts and with thinner shells. These are small enough to serve as food for quail, in addition to pheasant, grouse, turkey, chipmunks, squirrels, and everything else under the sun, up to and including bears. Lifetime replacement guarantee for any that ever die of Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB).
Wildlife Quality Hazels1–50: $3.43 ea 51–250: $2.90 ea
251–1,000: $2.76 ea >1,000: $1.95 ea
Seedlings from healthy bushes with large crops of nuts smaller than those preferred for human consumption, about the size of wild hazels. We do not allow these bushes to shed pollen, so all these were fathered by bushes with larger nuts. First-rate wildlife cover and wildlife food crop. These plants also make excellent snow fence or windbreak. A bargain!
Medium Nut Wildlife Hazels1–50: $4.06 ea 51–250: $3.12 ea
251–1,000: $2.85 ea >1,000: $2.45 ea
These seedlings are either from bushes with nuts just a little smaller than we want for human use, or from bushes which may not be as regularly productive as we like to see. These bushes are great for wildlife, windbreaks, and snow fence. Some of these plants will bear large nuts and crops that are worthwhile picking for humans, too.
Hazelnuts for Crop Production
Parents of these plants meet all our criteria for plant health and crop performance. Lifetime replacement guarantee for any that ever die of Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB).
Medium Nut Hazels1–50: $4.75 ea 51–250: $3.75 ea
251–1,000: $3.18 ea >1,000: $2.95 ea
The nuts are small for the in-shell market but easily large enough for processing or marketing as cleaned nutmeats. Often very productive.
Large Nut Hazels1–50: $4.99 ea 51–250: $4.64 ea
251–1,000: $4.30 ea >1,000: $3.83 ea
These plants do not produce nuts as large as the big Oregon hazelnuts, but they're big enough to sell in-shell. Supply is limited!
Xtra Large Nut Hazels1–20: $7.11 ea 21–100: $5.91 ea
>100: $5.48 ea
These plants produce the largest nuts—some as large as the big Oregon hazels—of any guaranteed plants we now have available. Supply is very limited! Please read the article Does Size Matter? before ordering!
Select Parent Hazels
Select parents available will differ from year to year, but these are our very best plants and best parents. Lifetime replacement guarantee for any that ever die of Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB). Availability is always limited.
Medium Nut Select Hazels1–20: $6.60 ea 21–100: $5.67 ea
>100: $4.90 ea
Our Criteria for selecting these plants: First nuts at age 3, consistently high production, excellent kernel characteristics. These are often our most productive plants.
Large Nut Select Hazels1–20: $6.70 ea 21–100: $5.88 ea
>100: $4.95 ea
These are our best, most productive Large Nut parents. They do not produce nuts as large as the big Oregon hazelnuts, but they're big enough to sell in-shell.
Xtra Large Nut Select Hazels1–20: $8.50 ea 21–100: $6.63 ea
These are our best, most productive Xtra Large Nut parents and produce the largest nuts, some as large as the big Oregon hazels. Please read the article Does Size Matter? before ordering!
Experimental Hybrid Hazels
Basically, the hazels above (our "Guaranteed" Hazels) are our workhorses, and these Experimental Hazels are racehorse mamas crossed to a workhorse papa, which makes them plants that are interesting but somewhat unpredictable.
We sell these because we feel they are low-risk and well worth trying. They are not guaranteed against Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB), even though most should prove EFB-resistant or -"tolerant". These are seedlings from plants in our breeding projects which have superior nut characteristics but also some known or possible susceptibility to EFB. They are never from plants that are severely affected by the disease. The pollen parent must be one of our disease-free hybrids, so these are quite promising, and many will outperform their parents.
We now believe that having some EFB in your planting is highly desirable. It gives the bugs and microbes that attack EFB somewhere to live, among other things. We currently recommend any large planting consist of approximately 30% Experimentals. For smaller plantings, if you are seriously interested in establishing your own hazel fields for nut production, you should consider some of these for the increased genetic diversity and for the excellent chance that some of these will be very superior producers. We plant thousands of these ourselves!
Experimental Hybrid Hazels
Sizes Medium, Large, and Xtra Large available. Prices are exactly the same as for the corresponding class of our Guaranteed EFB Resistant Hybrids (see above).
Select Experimental Hybrid Hazels
We originally considered any trace of EFB as reason to classify a plant as "Experimental". Now, however, we have plants with consistent excellent health and excellent crops—and a consistent tiny amount of EFB for 10 years. Some of these are among our very best producers, and the EFB is clearly of no importance to the plants. Prices are exactly the same as for the corresponding class of our Guaranteed Select plants (see above; sizes "Medium" and "Large" only).
Bare-Root Dormant Tubeling Hybrid Hazels
The usual way to transplant trees is "bare-root dormant" stock. This works poorly for hazels, however, as they usually leaf out before they can be dug in the spring.
Over the last few years we've experimented with another transplant pathway. We grow the tubelings in the greenhouse as usual, but then hold them in the greenhouse until February. Then we pull them out of the tubes, cull any weak plants, and store them in our root cellar until spring.
Our regular tubelings are a tried and true path to getting your hazel fields off and running, but we still have customers in very hot climates (zone 8 or higher) who sometimes wish they could plant sooner. We've done extensive planting of the regular tubelings in mid-July and right through August—including plantings made at 8 AM on days with no clouds and temperatures in the 90's—with no problems. Really.
But if you live in a seriously hot or dry place, or if your schedule won't let you loose later in the season, it might be nice to be able to plant in early spring, just as folks have been doing with regular bare-root dormant trees for years. So, we are offering Bare-Root Dormant Tubelings for sale. We've tested them since 2003 and are satisfied they perform as well as our regular stock.
They ARE a little more expensive, because they take extra handling and effort for storage over winter:
Bare-Root Dormant
Tubeling Hybrid HazelsAdd 50¢ ea to the prices listed above
2008 AVAILABILITY: 5/6/2008 We do still have some bare-root dormant stock available. Place an order and we'll fill it if we can!
Shipping/Delivery
We ship orders as fast as we can get the plants fully acclimated and ready for the real world. Tubelings ship and are planted from late May through August.
Bare-root Dormant Tubelings ship April through May.
UPS Ground or US Priority Mail:
Up to $100: $10.00
Over $100: 10%
Overnight or 2nd Day Air orders will be billed for the additional cost at shipping time. 2nd Day shipping can be a good idea for long distances, but will slow things down for shipments to MN, IA, SD, WI or IL. We can provide personal air-conditioned van delivery for orders over $1,000; contact our sales department for information.
Will-Pick-Up: If you can drive here and pick up your plants, this is the safest way to transport them. If you are ordering by mail call ahead and include your phone number on the order form, otherwise we will arrange a pick-up time with you via e-mail. The handling fee for pick-up orders is:
Up to $1,000: $20 + 2%
Over $1,000: $40 flat fee
Damage: If damage is done during shipment, notify us and the carrier as soon as shipment is received. If you delay the shipper will not take responsibility and the loss is yours.
Restrictions: Due to quarantines we cannot ship to WA, OR, CA, FL or BC. Shipment of plants to Canada requires you to make all paperwork arrangements; contact us.
Detailed planting instructions are shipped with all plants.
Additional notes about your order
Our Plant Guarantees: We modify our guarantees from time to time to ensure the success of you, our customers, and us. Please be sure that you read and understand our guarantees in their entirety before placing your order! Read the plant guarantees...
Terms: Minimum order $75. Full payment must be received prior to shipment, except for large orders as described below. In the event you cancel the order, 50% deposit is not refundable; plants are perishable.
Refunds: If we cannot fill your order, we will send you a prompt refund.
Substitutions: Since we always have some categories that run out early, your chances of having your order filled will be greatly increased if you signify that you are willing to accept substitutions. We'll send equal or better quality and nothing we wouldn't plant ourselves. All orders for more than 500 plants MUST agree to accept substitutes. Until we get a new greenhouse built it is simply not possible to arrage to have specific kinds and numbers of plants all ready at the same time.
Large orders: Our standard terms include the option for customers with orders over $1,000 to pay half of the cost at the time of the order and half on delivery.
Early Payment Discount: For orders over $1,000 for the current year, we offer a 5% discount if your order is received before March 1. If you choose to take this discount, payment must be made in full at the time of the order. In the current business climate, this saves money for both customer and seller.
Plant Breeding History: Many of our hazels are grown (for our own use) with information about their specific breeding line. We will provide that information if you specifically request it, but we must add a charge for the service of $20/1000 plants.
Please be sure you read and understand our Plant Guarantees, as well as the Shipping and Additional info above, before placing your order.
To order by e-mail:
Copy this text order form into an e-mail to orders@badgersett.com (PayPal Verified), fill it out and send it. Once we have begun processing your order, you will get an e-mail invoice from PayPal with instructions on how to pay.
Please note: Some businesses block PayPal e-mail. To avoid such problems, you may wish to use a personal e-mail address in your order. Order processing both at Badgersett and at PayPal can take a variable amount of time, but in most cases you should receive an invoice from our PayPal account within 7 days.
To order by mail:
- Download and print the following order form:
PDF order form. Requires Adobe Reader or similar software. (This format is usually preferable.)
Non-PDF order form. If you don't have a PDF reader, follow this link, then print out the page from your browser. Mail it , with a check or money order made out to Badgersett Research Corporation, to:
Badgersett Research Corporation
18606 Deer Road
Canton, MN 55922-9740
Sorry, we are not yet equipped to take orders via phone.
