Sweet chestnut tree

Great forests of American chestnut trees died from chestnut blight, but their cousins across the seas, European chestnuts, continue to thrive. Beautiful shade trees in their own right, they produce most of the chestnuts Americans eat today. Learn more about them here.

Find out all about the tree from which our classic Christmas nut grows. Learn where to find sweet chestnut, what it looks like and how it is used.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; So begins H. D. Longfellow's poem 'The Village Blacksmith' one oft-remembered by people of a certain age in the UK as a poem they've learnt in school. While the poem is more about impressing the fact that "at the flaming forge of life/ Our fortunes must be wrought;", for me it ends at the first line itself. For when one begins to contemplate the spreading chestnut-tree neither fortunes nor the flaming forges of life manage to get a…

Sweet Chestnut is a drawing by Johann Kautsky which was uploaded on April 2nd, 2013. The drawing may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days.

These trees look beautiful and are practically found in most forests. All types of chestnut trees can also fulfill wildlife & human food needs

Not the kindest scent to assail a newly widowed woman with: the scent of man, the scent of his loving ... smell a sweet chestnut tree in bloom and see what I mean. One is flowering now in the Secret Garden, attracting moths at night and flies and bumble bees during the day. "On the other side of the world it is marrons glaces time," Lady Mondegreen remembers wistfully. If New Zealanders can eat mince pies, roast turkey and plum pudding at Mid Summer, melt in the mouth sugar-saturated…

Sweet chestnut, ancient woodland soul