hamamelis

This late winter blooming hybrid shrub is certainly the most widely celebrated. In the last dreary days of winter its branches become dotted with fragrant, colorful, spidery flowers. The vase-shaped shrub blends and amplifies the great ornamental characteristics of its two parents, Chinese witchhazel (Hamamelis mollis) and Japanese witchhazel (H. japonica).

Witchhazel has dull dark green leaves that are broadly oval with wavy edges and short tips. The new leaves are glossier...

A well-known and highly revered selection, ‘Arnold Promise’ boasts extra large flowers of brilliant yellow that really stand out in the winter landscape. It also offers vigorous growth, a lovely vase-shaped habit and fine fall color. It was introduced by The Arnold Arboretum, the arboretum of Harvard University in Boston.

This late winter blooming hybrid shrub is certainly the most widely celebrated. In the last dreary days of winter its branches become dotted with fragrant, colorful, spidery...

Diane witchhazel brings love dark red and spicy scented flowers to the winter landscape. Dense tufts of ribbony, faintly fragrant, dark red flowers in the last days of a dreary winter are what makes this somewhat vase-shaped deciduous shrub so terrific. It perfectly blends and amplifies the great ornamental characteristics of its parents, Chinese witchhazel (Hamamelis mollis) and Japanese witchhazel (H. japonica).

The leaves are a dull dark green, glossy above (mainly when young)...

The vibrant coppery gold and deep red flowers of 'Jelena' put on a super show. In the last dreary days of winter the branches of this vigorous cultivar become lined with fragrant, colorful, spidery flowers that brighten the landscape when most other plants are dormant. This spreading vase-shaped shrub amplifies the great ornamental characteristics of its two parents, Chinese witchhazel (Hamamelis mollis) and Japanese witchhazel (H. japonica).

Witchhazel has dull dark green...

This late winter blooming hybrid shrub is certainly the most widely celebrated! In the last dreary days of winter, after other hybrid witchhazels, the upright branches of 'Primavera' become lined with fragrant, colorful, spidery yellow flowers. The large, vase-shaped deciduous shrub blends and amplifies the great ornamental characteristics of its two parents, Chinese witchhazel (Hamamelis mollis) and Japanese witchhazel (H. japonica).

Selection 'Primavera' has bright green...

Bushy and upright, Ruby Glow showy witchhazel bears dull red to pale coral-violet flowers and yellow to orange-red fall foliage. In the last dreary days of winter its branches become lined with faintly fragrant, ribbon-like crinkled flowers. The vase-shaped shrub blends the ornamental characteristics of its two parents, Chinese witchhazel (Hamamelis mollis) and Japanese witchhazel (H. japonica), first grown as a seedling in 1935. It was the first "red-flowering" witchhazel cultivar,...

Japanese witchhazel's bare, architecturally interesting branches become a party of color and mild fragrance in late winter with tiny, multicolored, spidery blossoms. This native of Japan is a wide-spreading deciduous shrub with smooth, dark gray-brown bark and glossy, broadly oval, mid-green leaves. In autumn, they turn yellow, red and purple. Upon the bare, brown branches in late winter will be delicate tufts of very thin, crinkly yellow petals like look like tiny, short ribbons. The four petals...

Japanese witchhazel's bare, architecturally interesting branches become a party of color and mild fragrance in late winter with tiny, multicolored, spidery blossoms. This native of Japan is a wide-spreading deciduous shrub with smooth, dark gray-brown bark and glossy, broadly oval, mid-green leaves. In autumn, they turn yellow, red and purple. Upon the bare, brown branches in late winter will be delicate tufts of very thin, crinkly yellow petals like look like tiny, short ribbons. The four petals...