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Plant: Diane - Witch Hazel
Witch Hazel · Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane'
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 carries copper red spidery flowers in late winter and early spring, before the leaves emerge, each with four long narrow twisted petals that open and close with the weather. The dark green obovate leaves turn red, yellow and orange 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 the winter bloom can be seen from the house.
- 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 carries copper red spidery flowers in late winter and early spring, before the leaves emerge, each with four long narrow twisted petals that open and close with the weather. The dark green obovate leaves turn red, yellow and orange 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 the winter bloom can be seen from the house.
- Flowers
- Copper red spidery flowers of four long narrow petals, opening in late winter to early spring.
- 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.
