![]() ![]() ![]() Some, like the best-known of all, yellow-flowered ‘Arnold Promise,’ are bigger. I’m figuring on perhaps 10 or 12 feet in eventual height, and about as wide someday. ![]() ‘Jelena’, with its coppery, scented flowers, is more horizontal in stature than another I made a spot for, the vase-shaped ‘ Pallida’ (above). I call the latter “vomit of spring.” Witch-hazel I call simply beautiful. I have said before that if garden centers were open in February or March in cold-climate zones like mine, I am certain that early blooming Asian witch-hazels would knock the far-more-vulgar (and admittedly later) Forsythia out of the ring. Their offspring (hardy in Zone 5-8) are mostly fragrant, and all bloom early and have hot fall foliage besides. One silver lining-or should I say golden and coppery, perhaps?-was that spots opened up for some witch-hazels, or Hamamelis, and I’ve been enjoying the first rewards from my young plants like the intermediate hybrid called ‘Jelena’ (above) each late winter since.īy intermediate, or x intermedia as it would be stated in formal botanical Latin, it means that ‘Jelena’ is a child of two great parents: the Chinese witch-hazel ( Hamamelis mollis) and the Japanese species ( H. ILOST A LOT OF SHRUBS in the fall of 2011, between deliberate culling required by the garden’s age (at that time, twenty-five overgrown years!) and a freakish late-October snowstorm that then took even more than were in my giveback plans. ![]()
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