Hamamelis, Witch Hazel 'Pallida'

Valued most for its beautiful structure and its lemon-yellow flowers in winter. This is a graceful, broad-spreading understory tree, slow...Read More-growing but ultimately reaching 20' or more high and wide.

Among witch hazels, this is one of the more reliable/heavy bloomers. It comes into flower weeks earlier than 'Arnold Promise.'

Most plants are grafted on H. virginiana understock and need root suckers cut off annually to keep them from outcompeting the cultivar. (H. virginiana root suckers retain dead leaves into winter, the cultivar does not.)

As with all witch hazels, unskilled pruning reduces flowering and destroys its graceful natural architecture. Plant this where its ultimate size and width will be assets.

Prefers moist, well-drained acid soils in full sun to partial shade.

For those looking for a source for this shrub, I found it at the Whitman Farms Nursery website. Here's the link: ...Read Morenfarms.com/?s=hamamelis mollis pallida&submit=Search" target="_dgnew"rel="nofollow">http://whitmanfarms.com/?s=hamamelis mollis pallida&submit=S...

Received The Royal Horticultural Society, Award of Garden Merit (AGM) in 1993, reconfirmed in 2005.

Large, pale yellow, scented flowers make this one of the best H. mollis cultivars. Some authorities suggest it might in fact be a H. X i...Read Morentermedia cultivar. Fall colour is a clear, bright yellow.