Hamamelis x intermedia

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Arnold Promise' Green Point Garden Design

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane'

Hamamelis x intermedia
Common name: Witch hazel
AGM  (Award of Garden Merit)


Family                        Hamamelidaceae
Height & spread      400cm x 400cm 
                                    Deciduous , 
 Soil                            Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained, acid to neutral in full 
                                    sun or partial shade.  
                                    is tolerated if the soil remains moist.
 Aspect                      Full sun or partial shade
 Hardiness               Hardy 
 Care                         Prune in late winter or early spring, when dormant- Remove            
                                   wayward or crossing shoots to maintain permanent, healthy 
                                   framework.

(H. japonica x H. mollis)
Vase-shaped shrub with ascending branches and broadly oval to obovate, bright green leaves, to 15cm long, turning yellow in autumn. In early and midwinter (after first frost), bears fragrant, yellow, dark red, or orange flowers, with crimped petals, on the bare branches.

'Advent' - bright yellow flowers
'Allgold' - bears small, dark yellow in mid- and late winter 
'Arnold Promise' - AGM, large yellow flowers in mid- and late winter
'Diane' - AGM, dark red flowers in mid- and late winter 
'Jelena' - AGM, large, coppery orange flowers in early and midwinter
'Moonlight' - large, pale yellow flowers in mid- and late winter
'Pallida' (syn. Mollis 'Pallida'), AGM, large, sulphur-yellow flowers in mid- and late  
               winter
'Sunburst' - large, pale yellow flowers in mid- and late winter
'Vezna' - large, dark orange- yellow flowers with pendent petals, flushed red at the 
                bases in mid- and late winter.