QUIRKY TREE WITH A LATE SEASON BRIGHT YELLOW BLOOM
FEATURES:
- Deep green foliage arrives in spring and lasts until fall
- The perfect tree for an end of the year bloom - in early fall, bright yellow ribbon like blooms drape along each stem and last until early winter
- Attracts many important pollinators including monarch butterflies and honeybees
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Bower & Branch Landscape Design
Layer Common Witchhazel with spring- and summer-blooming natives to create a garden with year-round interest. Consider pairing it with flowering dogwoods, fothergilla, or shade-loving ferns to bring texture and seasonal transitions to your design.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Mature Height: 15-30' tall
- Mature Width: 15-30' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 15-25' apart
Common Witchhazel
Bower & Branch Trees and Plants
Hamamelis virginiana
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QUIRKY TREE WITH A LATE SEASON BRIGHT YELLOW BLOOM
FEATURES:
- Deep green foliage arrives in spring and lasts until fall
- The perfect tree for an end of the year bloom - in early fall, bright yellow ribbon like blooms drape along each stem and last until early winter
- Attracts many important pollinators including monarch butterflies and honeybees
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Bower & Branch Landscape Design
Layer Common Witchhazel with spring- and summer-blooming natives to create a garden with year-round interest. Consider pairing it with flowering dogwoods, fothergilla, or shade-loving ferns to bring texture and seasonal transitions to your design.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Mature Height: 15-30' tall
- Mature Width: 15-30' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 15-25' apart
Why plant Common Witchhazel?
Combining beauty and function into one package with Witch Hazel trees, known for their fantastic fall foliage and sweetly scented flowers to their incredible homeopathic healing qualities. The handsome architecture of this tree adds a unique flair to any landscape! Clusters of emerging ribbon-like flowers and crinkled petals scattered all over the tree going from green to a brilliant golden yellow in the fall. An absolute showpiece in your garden in all its floral splendor lasting all through fall! This picturesque woodland tree is a must-have for you and the birds to enjoy all year long!
The first clue to the Native Americans that there was something unusually special about Witch Hazel may have been the golden flowers blooming in the dead of winter. Many Native Americans like the Osage, Potawatomi, and Mohegans used Witch Hazel bark to treat skin ulcers and sores. They would steam the twigs and branches over hot rocks in their sweat lodges to soothe sore muscles. They also taught English settlers about dowsing, an ancient method for finding underground water using Y-shaped witch hazel sticks. When water was below them, the sticks would bend downward. Native Americans believed Witch Hazel to have many magical powers, which in the eyes of modern medicine have shown to be true. Now being mass-produced throughout the world known as the "Golden Treasure," an astringent to heal the skin from wounds, scars and help stop bleeding are just a few of its qualities. As one of the only medicinal plants approved by the FDA, Witch Hazel has been benefitting not just landscapes but also human health for centuries. Another gift from the Native Americans teaching us about these incredible woodland shrubs!
How to use Common Witchhazel in the landscape?
Adding a splash of color to any garden, and imagine having a tree that flowers in February and March? In all that gloomy dormancy, you’ll see Witch Hazel emerging in life! Plant as a privacy screening or as an interesting focal point. These plants also help with erosion control for plant them along creek banks or ponds with lots of others!
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-8
How To Plant Common Witchhazel
Witch Hazel likes a soil enriched with compost and appreciates shade during the hottest hours of the day (around 1pm to 3pm). Don’t worry about protecting the blossoms from frost! They can handle it. The strappy flowers contract on extremely cold days and unfurl again on milder ones.
How To Water
Witch Hazel will appreciate regular water during its first few years in the ground and irrigation during long dry spells after it’s established.
How To Fertilize
Work our Elements Starter Plant Food into your Witchhazel's soil up to four times per year.
How To Prune
If needed, prune your Common Witch Hazel in early spring, before your tree begins to leaf out.
Frequently Asked Questions
It blooms in late fall, often from October through November. The flowers are fragrant and appear after the leaves begin to drop.
Common Witchhazel needs very little pruning. You may shape lightly in late winter or early spring to maintain its form or remove damaged wood.
Witchhazel is considered deer resistant. While no plant is completely deer-proof, this native shrub is usually left alone by browsing animals.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
*For Big trees and Shrubs, Size XL and bigger: Review our Seasonal Shipping Timelines and Policy here.
Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
Our Guarantees
3-YEAR-TREE GUARANTEE:
Bower & Branch offers a Three-Year Tree Guarantee on all of our trees, sizes X-Large and up. Only the finest and the most experienced growers are awarded the opportunity to grow for Bower & Branch, so we offer the best guarantee available.
If your tree(s) should fail for any reason during the three-year guarantee period, you will receive an online gift card in the amount that you originally spent on the tree.* You can then use this online gift card for any Bower & Branch Purchase.
* Bower & Branch provides online gift cards in the amount of the original purchase price of the tree(s). The amount does not include any additional costs such as delivery, planting, tax, or any other products or services. Online gift cards can be applied towards any Bower & Branch purchase on BowerandBranch.com and have no expiration dates. Bower & Branch does not guarantee tree replacement or availability of any desired product at any time. Cash refunds are not offered. Bower & Branch requires that all original tags and receipts are present when a guarantee request is initiated. The Bower & Branch Three-Year Guarantee only applies to plant material that has been planted in the ground. Container plantings are NOT covered.
At Bower & Branch, we do our best to honor all guarantee fulfillment requests to ensure customer satisfaction. However, we reserve the right to refuse the request if the required guarantee steps were not satisfied. Bower & Branch also reserves the right to deny any guarantee fulfillment request that is made as a result of animal damage, problems with plant hardiness and zone issues, or acts of nature (snow storms, hurricanes, and similar).
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- Email: plantwhisperers@bowerandbranch.com
- Phone: 866-873-3888
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