#harry lauders walking stick

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 13 January 2023

The stems of Corylus avellana 'Contorta' (corkscrew hazel, Harry Lauder's walking stick) provide dynamic winter interest. The branches are strongly twisted and create a large shrub which is even more impressive if the finer stems are pruned to reveal the structure. The leaves have a slightly twisted and contorted appearance with catkins being produced on bare twigs in the spring.

Jill Raggett

[plantanarchy]

wait no.... I'm gonna get a Harry lauder's walking stick

[mmwm]

LINK FEST: 1 AUGUST 2023

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.lslsl interview: lost, but not forgotten: plants we once loved, with ken druse (Margaret Roach/A Way to Garden). Read it or listen (1/2 hour audio). On Colorado blue spruces, red buckeye, corkscrew hazelnut (aka Harry Lauder’s walking stick),…

[abruzcadabra]

This is the probably my most popular photo of my work-and my second creation ever with these branches. It’s crazy to see what I initiated after trimming my tree that first time and being unable to throw such beauty in the yard waste bin.

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What’s this? A contorted hazelnut tree that’s blooming in my neighborhood. (Photos by my son.) Weird and wonderful, yes?

[dougplummer]

harry lauders walking stick tree

[lovecraftsgarden]

Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’

Corkscrew Hazel, Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick

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[merelygifted]

Corylus avellana 'Contorta' - BBC Gardeners' World Magazine

AKA Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, Corkscrew Hazel

[shashaleonard]

Sara (Indianola, WA) March 2021

Shasha Léonard (instagram)

[scotianostra]

August 4th 1870 saw the birth of the entertainer Harry Lauder in Portobello.

Harry was the eldest of seven children, Harry’s parents were John Lauder, a master potter, Porty was famous for it’s pottery works back in the day, the family moved to Derbyshire in 1882 where John Lauder was going to design china. However, he died on 20th April and they had to move to Isabella’s parents’ home in Arbroath

When Harry left school aged about 12 he went to work in a flax mill.  The family then moved to Hamilton where Harry worked in a coal mine.  In 1891 he married Ann Vallance, daughter of the manager of the mine.

Harry’s fellow-workers, who whom he often sang, encouraged him to sing in local music halls.  He joined a concert party and began touring, which enabled him to give up his job at the coal mine.  By 1894 Harry had turned professional and was singing in London venues..

Though a few other songs contend for a place among his best, Roamin’ In The Gloamin’ seems to be the one most often remembered. and even nowadays must be one of the best known songs written in and about Scotland, come on everyone knows it,

Roamin’ in the gloamin’ on the bonnie banks o’ Clyde.

Roamin’ in the gloamin’ wae my lassie by my side.

When the sun has gone to rest,

That’s the time we love the best.

O, it’s lovely roamin’ in the gloamin.

On 28th December 1916, Harry’s only son John Lauder who was a Captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed at Pozières.   Harry wrote the song “Keep Right on till the end of the Road” in memory of him.   Captain Lauder was buried at Ovillers, France and his father had a memorial placed in his son’s memory in Glenbranter, the Lauder family home in Scotland.

For his many services to the war effort, Harry was knighted in 1919.  Lady Lauder died in July 1927 and Harry continued to tour, sing and write songs.  He retired in 1935.  Apart from his songs, Harry also wrote several books and appeared in several films.   He came out of retrieved in the Second World War, entertained troops in Britain and also took part in radio broadcasts.

Sir Harry Lauder died on 26th February 1950, the pics show him in with stars of the day on which he was on a par with, I love Stan Laurels walking stick!!

[rootedincuteness]

This curly little thing is called a Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick shrub. It actually died years ago after a drought, but I left it in my yard because the wood is uniquely beautiful. Mudpie thinks so too. He loves playing on all the gnarly, twisted branches. =)

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 5 March 2021

Flowering in late winter and early spring Corylus avellana 'Contorta' (corkscrew hazel, Harry Lauder's walking stick) is as a large deciduous shrub with twisted branches. The long yellow male catkins are the major display but look carefully for the small red female flowers which if pollinated will produce hazelnuts.

Jill Raggett

[classicflowercollection]

Optic Exploration: Corylus avellana "contorta" (Harry Lauder's Walking Stick), Judith K. McMillan

[mothraeve]

Harry Lauder Walking Stick (by:Garden of Eve)

These are the flowers on this hazelnut before the leaves open. Quite an interesting tree with very gnarly branches.

[wdcgardener]

Wonderful winter interest provided by the twisted branches of Harry Lauder's walking stick (Corylus avellana 'Contorta’) #gardendc #wintergarden #corylus #dmv #corylusavellana #picoftheday #nofilter (at Takoma Park, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJqw9qagqQB/?igshid=1uya1hu2xzb16

[dougplummer]

Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick Tree