When I was a kid, my mother’s cure-all for everything from a touch of sunburn to poison ivy and even a mild fever was witch hazel lotion. It came from the Fuller Brush man who sold his wares from door ...

American witch-hazel, also called common witch-hazel, is a native plant in our area that surprises us by blooming in late fall into December. Yellow witch-hazel flowers are often spotted out in the ...

I opened the Yakima Area Arboretum’s “The Weekly Leaf” newsletter on Feb. 15 and was immediately drawn to the announcement “Let the Blooming Begin!” The big news was that the arboretum’s witch hazels ...