Hamamelis - National Collection

[Paddy Tobin]

Uli,

Many thanks for the information re H. vernalis 'Quasimodo'. It isn't one I seen or heard of but it sounds delightful. You might post a photograph if possible as it would be a very different and interesting one to see.

Paddy

[fermi de Sousa]

Paddy,
thanks for these pics of these wonderful shrubs.
They are pretty expensive here as well as they are all grafted. We certainly don't have a great variety in Australia and the two we had planted did not last long, presumeably due to the hot and dry conditions (well, not this summer, so far!) but I'm so tempted to try again after seeing these pics and remembering the scent. If that fails I'll just have to visit the appropriate gardens each winter!
cheers
fermi

[Palustris]

The NGS site states £3.50
http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=6652

Thanks Diane, going blind in my old age, could not find this info yesterday. Odd that we have been to David Austin Roses in Albrighton and Ashwoods and Webbs without seeing the place.

[Diane Clement]

Thanks Diane, going blind in my old age, could not find this info yesterday. Odd that we have been to David Austin Roses in Albrighton and Ashwoods and Webbs without seeing the place.

"Webbs" actually backs onto Swallow Hayes.  Webbs used to be called "Roses and Shrubs" and was owned by the Edwards of Swallow Hayes.

[shelagh]

Thanks for wuch a wonderful selection/collection of pics Paddy.  Our H. mollis 'Pallida' came into flower at the weekend, a little late this year as it is often flowering on New Years Day.  I always look forward to as it heralds the Spring.

[Paddy Tobin]

Glad you enjoyed them, Fermi and Shelagh.

Paddy

[TheOnionMan]

I was not aware of H. vernalis 'Quasimoto', so I searched and see that it available in the USA as well.  Good to know that there is a dwarf or small growing witchhazel out there.  Here are some links:

H. vernalis 'Quasimoto' (shrub view, not flowering)
http://www.rarefindnursery.com/index.cfm/action/productdetail/product_id/5338.htm

more Hamamelis at RareFind Nursery, not the newly found species H. ovalis from Mississippi.
http://www.rarefindnursery.com/index.cfm/action/displayProducts/level/3|170.htm

H. vernalis 'Quasimoto' - flowering:
http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/horticulture/current_plantings/current_plantings_details.php?serialnumber=0066661

http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/photography/photograph_collection/photograph_collection_results.php?image=&date=&photographer=&personinshotnames=&country=&usstate=&city=&location=&garden=&building=&event=&keywords=&othernotes=&lecturetext=&allplantnames=&allcommonnames=&allfamily=&allplantnameserialnumbers=117419

[Brian Ellis]

"Webbs" actually backs onto Swallow Hayes. 

Oh dear, another reason to visit

[Olga Bondareva]

Paddy, thank you for showing rich range of Hamamelis! I love them very much for flowering when snow is still covering the ground. They are really the first flowers of spring. Only H. vernalis and H. virginianus are hardy here.

H. vernalis 'Quasimoto'

I am looking for it for many years. 

Species H. vernalis is high and looks like hazel.

[Onion]

@ Paddy,

Marc Mc was faster. A very good picture of a flowering H. vernalis 'Quasimodo'.

@Olga,

nice to see a picture of H. vernalis. Never see it before. I like the "little" flowers and the smell.

[Paddy Tobin]

'Quasimodo' looks like a very nice shrub, a tidy habit for a small area in the garden. Good colour also, that marmalade shade is a nice change from the more common yellows.

Olga,
Nice H. vernalis. Good garden plant. They're a good shrub for this early time of year when little more is available.

Paddy

[Hoy]

Olga, nice picture and plant.
I haven't come across H vernalis for sale here yet but it is a shrub I am looking for.

[gervandenbeuken]

Paddy, I'm looking for a very compact and slowly growing form of Hamamelis for my alpine garden.
Do you have any suggestion and if so where to order?

Ger

Ger,

you must look for Hamamelis vernalis. The smallest I know is H. vernalis 'Quasimodo'. I knew a plant 20 years old with a high of 4 feet/ 1, 20 Meter. H. vernalis don't have large "flowers", but a smell   . I can send you a PM of a nursery here in the area with a large collection of Hamamelis, where I get 'Quasimodo' after 2 years of waiting.

Many thanks for your information. In the mean time I found a nursery here in the Netherlands in Boskoop. Good plants for sale from Hamamelis vernalis 'Quasimodo'  for Euro  22.50

[Maggi Young]

Many thanks for your information. In the mean time I found a nursery here in the Netherlands in Boskoop. Good plants for sale from Hamamelis vernalis 'Quasimodo'  for Euro  22.50

 Oh, sounds good..... do they make mail order?

[TheOnionMan]

Some for reason when discussing H. vernalis 'Quasimoto', I conjure up an image of a small decumbent shrub that develops a large woody burl off to one side