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zvone

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Hamamelis ....
« on: January 20, 2012, 05:25:01 PM »
Hi!

In my garden blooms wonderful Hemamelis Virginiana!



Recommend!

Best regards!   Zvone

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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 05:37:58 PM »
Nice flowers but are you sure it is virginiana? As far as I know virginiana blooms in the fall.
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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 05:48:04 PM »
Not sure which it might be... but the witch hazels are a joy.

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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 06:03:44 PM »
Chris Lane's book says H. virginiana flowers in Autumn and describes the species as being yellow flowered. There are a lot of different forms of H. mollis, japonica and vernalis and hybrids between them. We are lucky that they like our garden and we have about 6 different ones.
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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 07:53:47 PM »
Hi Maggi, Hoy and Palustris!

Hamamelis rules blooms within time of winter (February) and is first flower and the presenter of spring.

I tolerate, that is on picture Hamamelis x intermedia "of Diana" (?)

Maggi!

But the witch hazels are a joy!   

Yes!



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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 08:11:59 PM »
H. virginiana is native here. One can walk right past it in late autumn without noticing it in flower, may be a faint whiff of perfume.  I have yet to a see a showy one live. Harvest Moon is said to be showy.

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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 10:24:01 PM »
Quote from: zvone on January 20, 2012, 07:53:47 PM
Hi Maggi, Hoy and Palustris!

Hamamelis rules blooms within time of winter (February) and is first flower and the presenter of spring.

I tolerate, that is on picture Hamamelis x intermedia "of Diana" (?)

Maggi!

But the witch hazels are a joy!   

Yes!

Best regards!   Zvone
I agree to that! I have only one at the moment ('Pallida') and it is in flower now! I intend to plant more ;)
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Re: Hamamelis ....
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2012, 10:29:02 PM »
I like them very much... but, though slow growing, they  can take a lot of space in a small garden.

They are very expensive to buy .... I was lucky to get mine as young plants for £2.50 each in the closing down sale of a local nursery ( not lucky for the nursery of course :'( ) The nursery was taken over by a big firm who were not interested in all the locally grown plants the place had, so all were sold off.
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Re: Hamamelis ....
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2012, 10:45:23 PM »
Yes, they're expensive and it's therefore I have bought other plants, like 3 rhodos in stead of 1 witch hazel ::)
BTW I once read that witch in witch hazel isn't a hex but a corruption of an old word meaning flexible - I have forgotten the word though.
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Re: Hamamelis ....
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2012, 01:50:25 AM »
Quote from: Hoy on January 20, 2012, 10:45:23 PM
Yes, they're expensive and it's therefore I have bought other plants, like 3 rhodos in stead of 1 witch hazel ::)
BTW I once read that witch in witch hazel isn't a hex but a corrumption of an old word meaning flexible - I have forgotten the word though.

Hoy

From the Oxford online dictionary

Origin:
early 17th century: wych, used in names of trees with pliant branches, from Old English wic(e), apparently from a Germanic root meaning 'bend'; related to weak

Now what that Germanic root is I have no idea. ::)

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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2012, 02:30:21 AM »
Quote from: johnw on January 20, 2012, 08:11:59 PM
H. virginiana is native here. One can walk right past it in late autumn without noticing it in flower, may be a faint whiff of perfume.  I have yet to a see a showy one live. Harvest Moon is said to be showy.

johnw

Given a little more sun than what they usually get in the wild, the straight species can be very nice.

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Re: Hamamelis ....
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2012, 03:02:42 AM »
Very nice Rick!
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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2012, 08:03:00 AM »
Quote from: Palustris on January 20, 2012, 06:03:44 PM
Chris Lane's book says H. virginiana flowers in Autumn and describes the species as being yellow flowered. There are a lot of different forms of H. mollis, japonica and vernalis and hybrids between them. We are lucky that they like our garden and we have about 6 different ones.

Yes. This is true H. virginiana flowering in autumn.

It's a real big shrub here looking like hazel.
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Re: Hamamelis ....
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2012, 08:20:48 AM »
Quote from: johnw on January 21, 2012, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Hoy on January 20, 2012, 10:45:23 PM
Yes, they're expensive and it's therefore I have bought other plants, like 3 rhodos in stead of 1 witch hazel ::)
BTW I once read that witch in witch hazel isn't a hex but a corruption of an old word meaning flexible - I have forgotten the word though.

Hoy

From the Oxford online dictionary

Origin:
early 17th century: wych, used in names of trees with pliant branches, from Old English wic(e), apparently from a Germanic root meaning 'bend'; related to weak

Now what that Germanic root is I have no idea. ::)

johnw


Thank you John!  

I found the rest: (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=weak)

weak:   c.1300, from O.N. (Old Norse) veikr "weak," cognate with O.E. (Old English) wac "weak, pliant, soft," from P.Gmc. (Proto Germanic) *waikwaz "yield," *wikanan "bend" from PIE (Proto Indoeuropean) base *weik- "to bend, wind". We still say veik in Norwegian meaning "weak".

Is witch hazel weak? ???
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Re: Hamamelis virginiana
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2012, 08:24:40 AM »
Quote from: Rick R. on January 21, 2012, 02:30:21 AM
Quote from: johnw on January 20, 2012, 08:11:59 PM
H. virginiana is native here. One can walk right past it in late autumn without noticing it in flower, may be a faint whiff of perfume.  I have yet to a see a showy one live. Harvest Moon is said to be showy.

johnw

Given a little more sun than what they usually get in the wild, the straight species can be very nice.


Rick, very nice! When did you picture the blooming?

Olga, is your picture taken today?
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