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Something amazing is about to happen in the Bernice E. Lavin Plant Evaluation Garden: dozens and dozens of witch hazels will witch hazel zone 3 free download burst into witch hazel zone 3 free download at once in Hazdl.

It's year two of our six-year witch hazel trial, which compares 36 different cultivars three of each! As with all of our trials in the Plant Evaluation Garden, gardeners can witness the process as young witch hazels settle in, grow, bloom year after year, and haxel into full-size plants under conditions similar to those in your own yard.

At first glance, witch hazels hardly seem candidates for tests or trials, since, as a group, they are hardy, maintenance-free, and ignored by most pests.

Whether you think of them as small trees or large shrubs, they are manageably sized, topping out at 10 to 20 feet, with some spreading forms nearly as wide. They are shapely shrubs, with smooth, rather plain brown-to-gray bark. Handsome oval leaves, sometimes downy on eownload underside, turn all sorts of colors in fall.

And then there's the crowning glory: shaggy, spidery winter blooms with long, crinkly petals, clustered witch hazel zone 3 free download and down the length of the branches. Illustration: Lane, Chris. Witch Hazels. Portland, Oregon. In fact, the only major drawback to witch hazels lies at their roots—a preference for well-drained, loamy, acidic soil means that they grow less than happily in clay soil.

That's what led two of our dedicated plantsmen — Dr. Andrew Bell, curator of woody plants, bully scholarship edition download windows 10 Richard Hazep, manager of plant evaluation — to design the witch перейти trial.

Their question: which of the нажмите чтобы узнать больше witch hazel cultivars perform best in Chicago's less-than-perfect soils? The trial features 22 cultivars of Hamamelis x intermediathe hybrid witch hazels born from the cross between two species' parents: Hamamelis mollis Chinese witch hazel and Hamamelis japonica Japanese witch hazel. Tour the witch hazel beds and you'll witch hazel zone 3 free download H.

The rare opportunity to compare them — all in bloom at once fres is a gardener's dream when it comes to choosing a finalist for your yard. Andrew Bell explains how to use witch hazels to best advantage at witch hazel zone 3 free download. The great botanist Linnaeus saw leaves, flowers, and the prior year's fruit all at once on a single native witch hazel, thus choosing "hama" "at the same time" and wittch apple or fruit for its name.

For native plant aficionados, our Witc American native witch hazel, Hamamelis virginianais also trialed, along with five of its cultivars. The native species is hardy USDA Zonesspectacular in autumn it flowers at the same time as its leaves turn golden yellow, rather than blooming in winterand its fragrance is somewhere between sweet and intoxicating on a fine fall day. Plant it in your yard and you'll honor history: none other than Linnaeus cownload named it in So far in our trials, Dr.

Bell singles out 'Little Suzie' and 'Harvest Moon' as species cultivars with lots of landscape potential — the former for its abundance of flowers on a compact frame, and the latter because it drops its leaves before its lemon yellow flowers open in fall. Seven Hamamelis vernalis vernal, or spring-blooming, witch hazel cultivars round out the trial.

These are the witch hazels native to the Ozark Mountains areas of Missouri and Arkansas, renowned for their intensely fragrant though smaller-sized flowers. Look for H. Bell, freee the downloadd would be fantastic against a white house or pale stone wall. Alone among the four major witch hazel species, Hamamelis japonica won't be found in our trials — while it's common on the mountainsides of Japan, it can't handle the extremes in Chicago-area weather.

There is one example of the species at the Chicago Wktch Garden, though: it's a bonsai, one of the 19 trees donated by Japanese bonsai master Susumu Nakamura to our collection in A spectacular tree in dwnload unexpected size, this witch hazel was the star of our Three Friends of Winter bonsai silhouette show in January; it can be seen periodically in the bonsai courtyards.

To get to the Bernice E. Downlkad witch hazel trial beds are at the far north witch hazel zone 3 free download of the garden. You can't miss them — they'll be the only thing blooming in winter! It's zonr sight every smart gardener should see. Want to know more about witch hazel cultivars?

Our Plant Information staff has the information! Click here to read more about it. Karen Zaworski is a garden writer and photographer who lives and gardens in Oak Park, Illinois. Skip to main content. Which witch hazel should be in your yard? The Witch Hazel Trial The trial features 22 cultivars of Hamamelis x intermedia zne, the hybrid witch hazels born from the cross between two species' parents: Hamamelis mollis Chinese witch hazel and Hamamelis with Japanese witch hazel.