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Eliza Waters 
So that is what it looks like!
Very cool 🙂
Hardy to only -5ºF, we don’t see many Asian varieties here up north. This one is in a sheltered garden in the valley, just a tad warmer than here. Our native one is hardy to z3, but blooms in the fall and is less showy, easy to miss. Likes moist areas along streams, etc.
Guess it wouldn’t do so well up here 😉 Maybe out west, in B.C., or even in southern Ontario.
Yes, or in an enclosed, but open courtyard against a warm wall, none of which I have!
Yes, I am sure of that.
How tall is it?
12-15′ so not too large.
Good to know… That way, should I ever spot one… 🙂
Looks wicked… 😬
Ha, a bad-hair-day kind of blossom!
😊❤️
Like Dale, I have never before seen what witch hazel looks like 🙂
The Asian varieties are among the first bloomers in spring, so have merit for pollinators hungry after the winter. Our native one here blooms in the fall and has smaller, less showy flowers. Blooming at ends of the seasons is good for bees as well.
Interesting! I would love to know the name of all the plants I see, like you seem to do. I do know many of the native plants around me, but far from all.
You can use a plant ID app… you take a photo and upload it and it comes back with closest matches. Not sure if the US one would work, but there must be EU ones. It’s a good way to learn new plants and flowers. I used it on my trip west last fall, where there are lots of unfamiliar plants.
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Believe it or not, I also have never seen the flowers. But I’ve seen the leaves in summer so do know where to look. 🙂 In your garden?
This is Asian hybrid at Smith, but the woods along our stream are full of the fall-blooming native, though they’re not as showy.
I do know several areas, from past walks in different woods nearby, where Witch Hazel grows. Blooming in late autumn, on umbrella shaped trees, there’s often a group (coven?!) of them. I think it’s fun to see their happy color in the woods.
There are many of the natives along our stream. I love their spreading limbs that stretch over the water, quite graceful.
It’s a nice break from all the pinks and whites of spring.
Yes, it is quite a bright beacon here against the snow.
Very pretty.
Thank you, Judy. We have the fall blooming one in the woods, but I’ve been wanting a spring one for years. This might be the year I get one. I’ve read C. mollis is the most fragrant. 🙂
It is lovely but I can see how it got it’s name. 😁
Yeah, that wild Medusa hair! 😀
Yup! 😂
My father used to keep a bottle of witch hazel extract in his medicine cabinet. I never knew what the plant looked like. I think he used it to soothe insect bites after working in the garden.
Yes, it’s a long standing skin soother and astringent. My husband uses it as an aftershave. Good for hemorrhoids, too! 😉
A pretty one. Hope it smells nice. Mine didn’t have much fragrance at all this year…. too cold perhaps?
Thanks, Cathy. I read up on them and apparently C. mollis is the most fragrant… I might need to get one and see. 😉
Pretty yellow flowers! I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen witch hazel when out in my area and just looked it up, wow it is native to Maryland, I didn’t know this! I also read the fruit is eaten by birds, beavers, rabbits and, oh my! an occasionally bear. Watch out for them there bears, Eliza! 😉 I’ll be looking for witch hazel now and for sure next fall/winter, I think I don’t have to worry about the bears though. 😂
This one was growing in a nearby botanical garden and is a non-native hybrid, but they sure are lovely to see in early spring. I have lots of the fall-blooming C. virginiana, but the flowers aren’t nearly as showy. Your area has two other natives that are spring bloomers, so they might be hidden in plain sight!
Ok, I will be looking now!
Most unlike the European hazel Corylus avellana! Pretty though.
Nor like our fall-blooming native one, this one is the exotic Japanese cousin at the local botanical garden. The new hybrids are so tempting, but I’m trying to plant natives these days. Although this one has merit as it provides a very early pollen source.
Spring is coming! I have never seen witch hazel in our area.
Our native witch hazel is fall-blooming. The hybrids like this one from Japan are getting a lot of attention for their early, large blooms. Tempting!
Yes, indeed!
I remember witch hazel from barber shops in the 1950s.
Yes, my spouse still uses it as an aftershave. 🙂
I’ve never seen witch hazel, although I know we have a native. I think it’s mostly in east Texas, or at least in more wooded areas. For a while I confused early dodder with witch hazel, and was a bit downcast when I discovered dodder’s a parasitical plant.
I’ve seen time-lapse videos of dodder, and it seems almost reptilian, searching about for prey! Witch hazel (interestingly, the same species grows here and there), requires a cold dormant period, so I imagine it only grows in cooler parts of TX.
Such interesting little trees. There is a native here in Texas (as Linda mentions). I’ve never seen it for sale or in the wild. I wonder why?? Lovely photo!
Thank you, Tina. They’ve become quite popular in the Northeast and UK in the past few years.
I have never seen this before! Thanks for posting.
Thank you, Cindy. Not something you’d see in SoCal. 🙂
Always admired this tree/shrub but never quite grew it in my garden. It is beautiful Eliza!
Thank you, Agnes. One of the very first shrubs to bloom in spring!
Lovely
Thank you, Karina!
Such lovely and unusual flowers.
Thanks, Kris. They curl up at night and in cool weather, then uncurl back out again!
I wouldn’t have known what this was without your explanation, Eliza. Thanks for educating me today!
My pleasure, Debbie, thank you!
The fragrance must be a delight. Beautiful!
Thank you, Susie. Seeing some color after a monochromatic winter is definitely a wonderful thing. 🙂
Very cool ☘️🍀
Thanks, Karen! 🙂
How nice to see it thriving in the winter.
It really is a beautiful specimen!
Lovely! Our are done, so it’s lovely to see fresh flowers
Thank you, Allison! As this was taken in the warmer valley on Mar.3, I assume it has finished as well. If it was in my yard, it’d probably be just coming on! 😉