How to Care Witch hazels

Witch-hazels 'Pallida' is distinct for its abundant yellow flowers that bloom in mid- to late-winter. Its cultivar name comes from those pale flowers. It is among the most popular cultivars of Hamamelis x intermedia for its attractive fall foliage, incredible winter flowering, and its height of 2.5 to 3.5 m.

The witch-hazels 'Primavera' is a captivating hybrid shrub, heralding spring with bright yellow, fragrant flowers that blossom in clusters before its dark green, oval-shaped leaves unfurl. Adaptable to a variety of soils, this deciduous plant thrives under full to partial sun, with its sprawling branches reaching up to 12 feet, creating an eye-catching display in any garden.

Witch-hazels 'Arnold Promise' is distinct for its late-blooming, sweetly fragrant flowers that bloom in late winter to early spring. A cultivar of Hamamelis x intermedia, it gets its name from its origins at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. At a height of 3.5 to 6 m, it grows even taller than other related cultivars and keeps large gardens interesting in winter.

Witch-hazels 'Aphrodite' is a witch hazel that stands out from the rest because of the unusual and attractive orange-red flowers, which have helped it achieve the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Named after the Greek goddess of love, this hybrid is a cross between Japanese and Chinese witch hazels.

The ozark witchhazel is a deciduous shrub most often found around the Ozark Plateau. This shrub blooms during late winter and early spring if given full sun or partial shade. The Greek roots of its scientific name, Hamamelis vernalis, reference the fact that both the flowers and fruits develop simultaneously.

Chinese witch hazel comes in a variety of colors and sizes. Chinese witch hazel 'Brevipetala' is a yellow-flowered cultivar of this species that has very short petals. In fact, "brevipetal" means 'short petals' in Italian. This cultivar is also shorter and more compact than its parent species, growing and spreading to 3 to 3.5 m instead of 4.5 m.

The most aromatic of the witch hazels, the chinese witch hazel, is grown as an ornamental plant for shrub borders or forest gardens. This fragrant shrub has rounded leaves and flowers that resemble golden yellow spiders and is praised for its fragrance.

An upright, compact variety of witch hazel, the witch-hazels 'Harry' grows to a height of 2.5 m and can be equally as wide. The witch-hazels 'Harry' variety has showy yellow flowers that are mildly fragrant. It blooms in winter or early spring and does not have a distinctive fall coloration.

In the forest, where exbucklandia usually grows, the trunk is single, straight, and free of branches for 9 to 18 m. Exbucklandia s are evergreen trees. The leaf blade is simple, and sometimes has three pointed lobes, or rarely, five. It is thickly leathery and its margin is entire. The venation is palmate, with the secondary veins radiating from the apex of the petiole. Each inflorescence has 7 to 16 flowers and is located in the axil of a leaf. The flowers are small and bisexual. The fruit is a 4-valved capsule. Each locule contains five to seven seeds. The upper four or five are sterile and wingless. The lowest one or two are fertile and narrowly winged. Estimates of the number of species range from two to four. They are medium to large trees whose natural range is from eastern India through southern China and southward through the Malay Peninsula. A few have been grown in the southernmost parts of the United States.

It is endemic to China.

Disanthus is a genus containing two species of flowering plants in the family Hamamelidaceae. It can be found in China, Japan and northern Vietna.

Winter hazel is a genus of nearly 30 species of shrubs, native to eastern Asia. They grow to 2 to 6 m tall, often with a crown wider than the shrub's height. The leaves are ovate with an acute apex and a serrated margin. The flowers are produced in late winter in pendulous racemes with 5-30 flowers; each flower has five pale yellow petals. The fruit is a dry capsule, containing two glossy black seeds.