{"id":9205,"date":"2016-01-27T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadmin.plantlust.com\/blog\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2024-01-24T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:31:14","slug":"witch-hazels-are-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantlust.com\/blog\/plants\/witch-hazels-are-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch-hazels are weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think back to the first time you saw a Hamamelis (witch-hazel) in bloom. Did you think “wow, that’s beautiful!” or were your thoughts more along the lines of\u00a0“what’s that freaky thing?” Don’t get me wrong, I love them, but they are rather bizarre, like colorful crinkled up ribbons tied on bare branches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis \u00d7 intermedia ‘Primavera’<\/a> at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I somehow made it into my 40’s before seeing\u00a0a blooming Hamamelis. How is that even possible? It was another year or two before I noticed\u00a0that fragrance you hear so much about — I think I’ve got a pretty good nose but I just didn’t smell a thing.<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis \u00d7 intermedia ‘Primavera’<\/a> at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I guess this holding-on-to-last-years-leaves while busting-out-in-bloom thing isn’t that uncommon? Mine (Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Early Bright’) is doing it this year.<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis \u00d7 intermedia ‘Primavera’<\/a> at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So why did it take me so long to discover Hamamelis? I wish I knew. I grew up in a colder climate (USDA Zone 5) than the one I live in now, so I thought maybe they just weren’t cold hardy? Nope, plant lust lists\u00a0plenty<\/a> that are fine to Zone 5 and even a few that can tolerate colder temperatures.<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis \u00d7 intermedia ‘Jelena’<\/a> at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the article “I Love This Plant: Witch Hazel<\/a>” on the\u00a0Garden Design Magazine<\/a> website, author Michele Owens\u00a0quotes\u00a0Scott Canning, director of horticulture at Wave Hill (“the spectacular 28-acre public garden in the Bronx, New York”), as saying: \u201cThough witch hazel (Hamamelis) has an extroverted personality, its charms are relatively unfamiliar to American gardeners.\u201d She goes on to write that Scott is “doing his best to change that by adding to the garden’s witch hazel plantings and singing the deciduous shrub’s praises. Last winter, he provoked a run on witch hazel at one of his favorite nurseries after astonishing a lecture audience with some of Wave Hill’s most beautiful and deeply perfumed cultivars.” (hint: there’s a list at the end of the article<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis \u00d7 intermedia ‘Jelena’<\/a> at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was at\u00a0Portland’s\u00a0Elk Rock Garden, the garden at the Bishop\u2019s Close<\/a>, that\u00a0I first caught a hint of that perfume.\u00a0Walking through my neighborhood nursery, Garden Fever<\/a>, almost a year later I was hit by a similar scent. That’s all the push I needed to finally add a witch-hazel to my garden — that plant became mine without a second thought.<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis \u00d7 intermedia ‘Jelena’<\/a> at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As it turns out my plant came to Garden Fever via\u00a0Gossler Farms<\/a>, their description still cracks me up: “Wow! What fragrance! H. ‘Early Bright’ has small orange-yellow flowers in January. The flowers aren’t very exciting but the fragrance is probably the best of any Hamamelis we’ve sniffed.”<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis \u00d7 intermedia ‘Jelena’<\/a> at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You may have noticed all of these photos were taken at The Oregon Garden<\/a>. I had the opportunity to visit recently, thinking there wouldn’t be much to see beyond the conifer collection. Obviously I was wrong!<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis<\/a> NOID at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So what about you? Love them? Grow them? Which one(s)? And\u00a0when did you discover them?<\/p>\n

\"Hamamelis<\/a>
Hamamelis<\/a> NOID at The Oregon Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ll leave you with another\u00a0quote from Michele Owen’s article, again from Scott Canning: \u201cThe first warm spell in winter, to see that thing in full bloom-it is really remarkable,\u201d he says. \u201cWitch hazel is the plant of hope.\u201d The plant of hope, I like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think back to the first time you saw a Hamamelis (witch-hazel) in bloom. Did you think “wow, that’s beautiful!” or were your thoughts more along the lines of\u00a0“what’s that freaky thing?” Don’t get me wrong, I love them, but they are rather bizarre, like colorful crinkled up ribbons tied on bare branches.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":9206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[909,488,1227,1225,1226,799],"yoast_head":"\nWitch-hazels are weird - Plant Lust<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Think back to the first time you saw a Hamamelis (witch-hazel) in bloom. 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