Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Diane Witch Hazel, 1 by daylily_ohio

daylily_ohio wrote:
While I was looking for these -- I did find a photo of Orange Beauty blooms. The center cluster of blooms is pretty blurry... but the one down lower left is ok.

However, compare to the twigs of the Arnold's Promise above.... which has blooms all up and down the branches.

Orange Beauty only has a couple blooms you can see -- and that's looking down through the braching. It either did not like full sun, didn't like my amended clay soil, or something. Most of mine are planted on a fairly steep hill, that is all clay "topsoil" fill that's several feet deep... so it's clay, but it's not compact, and the top couple feet had mushroom compost, other compost, leaf mulch and sharp sand worked in before it was smoothed off - so it's not full clay. All the other WH's do great in it.

Now, Curt plants his in shade, in deep woodsy rich soil. Orange Beauty had just a few more flowers for him than for me.

If the one you bought was covered in heavy bud -- maybe we just had bad ones... or you got a good one!! It's a lovely color when it does bloom!