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Plant: Arnold Promise - Witch Hazel
Witch Hazel · Hamamelis x intermedia 'Arnold Promise'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A slow growing, upright to wide spreading multi stemmed shrub or small tree that opens bright yellow flowers with a reddish base from late January into March, before the leaves emerge. Each bloom has four long, narrow, twisted spidery petals that open and close with the weather. The dark green obovate leaves are serrate on the upper half and colour in fall. It wants sun to part shade on acid, organic or clay soil with good drainage and tolerates occasional wet, deer and erosion. Use it at a woodland edge or in a shrub border where its winter bloom is visible.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in winter, spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A slow growing, upright to wide spreading multi stemmed shrub or small tree that opens bright yellow flowers with a reddish base from late January into March, before the leaves emerge. Each bloom has four long, narrow, twisted spidery petals that open and close with the weather. The dark green obovate leaves are serrate on the upper half and colour in fall. It wants sun to part shade on acid, organic or clay soil with good drainage and tolerates occasional wet, deer and erosion. Use it at a woodland edge or in a shrub border where its winter bloom is visible.
- Flowers
- Bright yellow flowers with a reddish base, four long narrow spidery petals, opening later than most other hybrid witchhazels.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple, wedge-shaped leaves, dark green above and paler and hairy below, serrated on the upper margin.
- Fruit
- A four-parted, septum-dehiscent capsule.
- Bark & stems
- Bark is smooth, gray to gray-brown. Stems are slender, gray-brown and smooth with some reddish lenticels.
- Pruning
- The plant tolerates pruning, but flowers appear on old growth.
- Native range
- Garden hybrid of Hamamelis japonica and Hamamelis mollis.
