February 23, 2008
Witch Hazel, Hamamelis vernalis
The flowers of this Witch Hazel cultivar are an intense yellow with red highlights. This species is a southern relative of the native Witch Hazel, Hamamelis virgineana, that flowers late in the fall. Although the larger pollinating insects are not active when these cold-weather flowers are open, tiny gnats that take wing on sunny days like this one, do the job.