Pam how tall and wide will Witch Hazel grow if in a spot it likes?
Does it fill in thickly or does it remain open?

Thanks

Dave
Sterling Heights, MI


On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:54:56 GMT, "Pam - gardengal"
wrote:

In a word, no. Without seeing how leggy it is in reality due to the wisteria
infestation, witch hazels tend to be rather leggy shrubs anyway. They
develop a growth habit exactly as you describe - long arching branches,
sometimes very horizontal in form, originating from faurly low on the trunk
and describing a vase shape. Little if any pruning is typically recommended.
If you feel you do need to, wait unitl after it flowers but just as the
leaves emerge, March or April, and head back long straggley branches to a
point where they fork or a growth node exists.

Witch hazels will sometimes throw new shoots from low on the trunk, but they
are not the same as the replacement growth regularly generated by caning
shrubs. FWIW, witch hazels tend to be large spreading shrubs that cover a
much wider spread than they achieve in height.

pam - gardengal.