Source for witch hazel hybrids?
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Comments (16)lt looks like just the experts I'm seeking! I'm making up my plant list for spring and was planning on putting some witchhazel in the bush I am planning at the back of my property. What I'm not sure is which would be the best variety as they are not common around here. 1) it will be set back quite a bit from my house (although I will see it out the windows no problem) so "bright" colour I think would be important. Which have the best show from afar? (Would the reds show up?) 2) Could you recommend a combination of 2-3 that would extend my bloom time? 3) Since they bloom so early do you set them back in the landscape? Thanks all. I've read the info in the books and seen the small pictures but it just doesn't give me a feel for what it would look like in the landscape. Sharon...See MoreLocal source for witch hazel and woodland plants?
Comments (3)Hi, I haven't been to this nursery yet, but one of the instructors at the IES in Millbrook said they had great plants, and all native. I certainly plan on getting there sometime this spring. I should think they would have a good selection of woodland plantings: http://www.catskillnativenursery.com/index.html Also, the Dutchess County Conservation Center sells various shrub and tree seedlings once each year for very good prices - these are bare-root seedlings. The website is : http://www.dutchess.ny.nacdnet.org/products.htm However, you must go to their location in Millbrook to pick up the plants. But, being able to get a bundle of 10 Witch Hazel seedlings for $11 could be worth it :-) Philomena...See MoreIs this witch hazel ?
Comments (10)My grandfather used to use witchhazel for water witching and swore by it. Water witching is a very old technique: Taken from the web on the issue of dowsing - "in 1949, a party of French explorers (while searching for evidence of lost civilizations in the Atlas Mts. of North Africa) stumbled upon a massive system of caverns known as the Tassili Caves, wherein many of the walls were covered with marvelous pre-historic paintings. Among the many fascinating wall murals, not only did they locate an art gallery devoted exclusively to the depictions of spacecraft and ET's, they also found a remarkable huge wall painting of a dowser, holding a forked branch in his hand searching for water, surrounded by a group of admiring tribesmen. These wall murals were carbon dated and found to be a least 8000 years old." Perhaps it was the act of water witching that actually gave the shrub it's current name. To the Puritans that were coming to America, such a mystical act of finding underground sources of water using a stick, must have seemed like some sort of Black Magick...witchery. Barb/knottyceltic...See MoreWitch Hazel cutting
Comments (1)I've never done it and I've heard that Hamamelis are tricky from cuttings. It might be worth hunting around the base of your friend's shrub to see if there are any natural layers or offsets already rooted there. Here is a link that might be useful: Hamamelis...See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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