Great plant pick: Arnold Promise Witch Hazel
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What: Hamamelis intermedia, commonly known as Arnold Promise Witch Hazel, is a vigorous cultivar cherished for its exquisitely fragrant, spidery flowers, which appear just when we need them most: winter. Its branches are upright when young but soon spread widely. It produces large, clear yellow flowers with reddish centers, and it blooms slightly later than other related cultivars. Depending on the weather, its flowers appear on bare branches in about January and remain until early March. Curious seed capsules appear in late summer. Its handsome leaves turn yellow-orange in autumn. The wide shape of witchhazels allows for generous underplantings of companion plants, late-winter-blooming ones for complement or summer-blooming ones to extend the season of interest.