Witt Winter Garden

1) Chimonanthus praecox           Wintersweet

• Wintersweet is in the allspice family of Calycanthaceae.
• The sulfur-yellow flowers are intensely fragrant and are born on bare stems.
• This winter garden favorite is native to China.

2) Ganya x issaquahensis            Hybrid Silktassel

• This natural hybrid, between G. elliptica and G. fremontii, is native to the western U.S.
• The showy male catkins will soon produce large amounts of yellow pollen.

3) Hamamelis x intennedia ‘Pallida’           Hybrid Witch Hazel

• This cultivar produces large, pale-yellow flowers on a horizontal growing form.
• H. x intermedia is a hybrid between H. japonica and H. mollis, both native to Asia.

4) Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Winter Beauty’           Hybrid Witch Hazel

• This cultivar, though of the same parents as ‘Pallida’, has orange flowers on a taller,
  more rounded form.

5) Salix irrorata           Bluestem Willow

• The shoots of this upright shrub are purple with a distinct white bloom in the winter.
• The catkins are grey when they emerge, turning red and then quickly to yellow.