Sir Harry Lauder's Walking Stick

This is an interesting small shrub about four years old. Usually you can't see the walking stick shape because of the foliage.  But some ornery critters --the small kind--ate all the leaves off.  Now in August green leaves are reappearing and the enemy seems to have

disappeared. 

I probably need to trim off one section to enhance the appearance of a walking stick.  The bush has a bad habit of sending up lots of little shoots every year, which I just cut off. 

Incidentally Harry Lauder was a Scottish comedian who used a twisted walking stick. 

Its other name is contorted hazelnut.