Keep Your Winter Landscape Flourishing

Witch Hazel, likely a mainstay of your grandmother's medicine cabinet, is our pick for adding color to winter landscapes. Happiest in full sun, witch hazel is a flowering shrub with curling yellow blooms that look like a collection of individual threads. It blooms in the late fall and into the early spring, adding cheer to an otherwise stark winter landscape. It tends to spread, so plant it where it has room to thrive. 

Did you know in addition to using the leaves and bark to reduce inflammation and fever, the forked stems of the witch hazel plant have also been used as divining rods to help locate underground water?