Not just squirrels that go nuts over hazel and for good reason

Fiann Ó Nualláin on his love for Corylus avellana, its bounty of its food medicine and gardening materials

I ama big fan of hazel (Corylus avellana), I like the look of it, I love its bounty of food medicine and gardening materials and it is among the ‘plandaí’ of my psyche. My favourite story as a kid was the salmon of knowledge in which this tree features as the source of wisdom of the salmon and later as a teenager one of my favourite poems was the song The Song of Wandering Aengus by WB Yeats, in which this tree also features with prominence.