Description: This deciduous, slow-growing shrub, one species each native to China and Japan and two from North America, is somewhat of a rarity. Reaching a height of 10 feet, it showcases alternate, ...

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 ...

Gardeners often talk of season-long color and interest in their gardens, but many feel limited with ornamental grasses, colorful fruits, and decorative bark as the only options for sprucing up the ...

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 ...

Winter hung on this week as we count down until spring. However, this weekend we all can get a peek at spring as the Agri-Plex (formerly Agricultural Hall) at the Allentown Fairgrounds hosts the ...

Today is the first day of spring, and here in central Ohio, the day will be greeted by some of the first flowers of the new season. Not crocus, daffodils or even hellebores, but the odd-shaped ...

Through February and March, Morris Arboretum will host guided tours through the grounds to find Witch Hazel plants and will provide scavenger hunt maps for visitors to race through the gardens ...

A. The plant you describe sounds like our native witch hazel, Hamamelis virginiana. The clear, yellow flowers of this tree begin to bloom in October, although they are often masked under the plant's ...

I wasn’t outside as much as I would have liked this past week so I asked a friend who works outside for some news about what has been happening in the woods. It didn’t take him long to come up with ...