We all need signs that lead us hopefully forward. After a serious winter (one that actually felt like winter), with punishingly low temperatures and more snow cover than the Northeast has become ...

“Did Mother Nature put a spell on our newly planted witch hazel? This happened in the last couple of days.” — Becky Maganuco, Glencoe It has been a challenging year to get a new garden or even a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Witch hazel is a fascinating flowering shrub that makes a wonderful addition to your landscape because it ...

If you live in a wooded area, you might already be familiar with witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana). It is a deciduous, shrubby tree that grows in the understory of forests and is most easily noticed ...

Due to my poor skill at directing the course of felling a dead tree in late February, the tree fell atop and crushed our witch hazel shrub to ground level. Still we managed to cut some shoots from the ...

Today is the first day of spring, and here in central Ohio, the day will be greeted by some of the first flowers of the new season. Not crocus, daffodils or even hellebores, but the odd-shaped ...