

- Feb 1, 2022
Witch-hazels
Witch-hazels (the genus Hamamelis) may be my favorite flowering deciduous woody ornamental. I was tempted to say shrub, but witch-hazels defy the classical definition of shrub, i.e., non-vining multiple stemmed woody plants typically < 20 feet tall. One may occasionally discover a specimen of the native H. virginiana exceeding that height, but most witch-hazels rarely top 10 feet. Moreover, witch-hazels are almost always have a short single stem, thus more like a small tre