I wasn’t outside as much as I would have liked this past week so I asked a friend who works outside for some news about what has been happening in the woods. It didn’t take him long to come up with ...

As snow began to fall in Tower Grove Park on Friday, a row of shrubs was sporting something you might not expect in February — flowers. This Ozark witch hazel is one of the earliest native plants to ...

While most perennial plants are settling in for a winter slumber, Missouri’s native witch hazels, Hamamelis virginiana, also known as American or common witch hazel, and H. vernalis, best known as ...

As we begin moving closer toward the winter solstice, trees drop their leaves and the heavy frosts come. In this time of late fall, you might walk through White’s Woods and notice a strange sight — ...

The Yakima Area Arboretum’s “The Weekly Leaf” newsletter arrived at the same time as mid-January’s snow and ice, bearing the unlikely headline, “Which Witch-Hazels are Blooming?” Flowers blooming in ...

When I was a kid, my mother’s cure-all for everything from a touch of sunburn to poison ivy and even a mild fever was witch hazel lotion. It came from the Fuller Brush man who sold his wares from door ...

Q: Isn't witch hazel a native plant? I want to use native plants in my garden so that I won't have to water during summer droughts, but a master gardener told me that the winter-flowering witch hazel ...