Hybrid Witch-Hazel

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Orange Encore' Hamamelidaceae

Growth habit

Shrub

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Location

Mullestein Winter Garden

Source of plant

Broken Arrow Nursery

Description

Orange Encore' is perhaps better noted for its foliage than its flowers. Emerging leaves in spring are tinted with maroon red before turning green by summer. Leaves turn a showy crimson red in fall. Small fragrant orange-yellow flowers open in late season (April) about the same time as the new leaves emerge.

USDA Hardiness Zone

5B

Special characteristics

fragrance, foliage characteristics