Re: Hamamelis

Date:          Sat, 19 Jun 1999 01:46:06 +0200
From:          Jose Almandoz <jose@almandoz.com>
To:            List - Medit Plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Subject:       Hamamelis
Reply-to:      jose@almandoz.com

Trevor Nottle wrote:

>  As the hail starts crashing on the roof, and the cats take off to
> hide under the furniture I come to the last thing flowering - a few
> early twigs of Hamamelis x JALENA. My favourite shrub, at least for
> this time of the year. I had planted it before I had the pleasure of
> meeting it's namesake at Courson. It lives on the edge of a
> grey-water soak but seems none-the-worse for the slightly sudsy
> water, or for the constantly wet soil. In the end it may serve to
> soak up all the water that goes out from the kitchen. Beauty and
> utility combined.

Dear Trevor & list,

Hamamelis is also a favorite of mine. They grow wonderfully in our heavy

clay soils, near the Parrotia, Disanthus and Distylium. Corylopsis is
also a fav hamamelidaceae that flowers profusely over here... Hamamelis
has the most weather resistant flowers I know: they cope with
everything.
'Jelena' is a wonderful cultivar; if you haven't got it already, try
also
'Pallida' in pale yellow... a must for the hamamelis enthusiast. Besides

the flowers, Hamamelis offer superb Fall colors too...
If you haven't visited yet, next time you travel around Belgium do not
miss Jelena de Belder's Kalmthout Arboretum. I visited at Easter time
three years ago, just when the Japanese cherries were at their peak...
great place.
Every October I am at the Journées de Courson, helping at the stand of a

Dutch  nurseryman friend of mine: next 'Automne' you visit, look for
BULK
PLANTS!!! :o)

Happy Gardening,

Jose Almandoz
Basque Country, coastal Northern Spain, SW Europe
Z9 - Humid oceanic climate
http://www.almandoz.com
ICQ: 2546223

Dear Jose and medit-planters,

How strange, I have Hamamelis Pallida too, my other favourite of the 
genus; and I have Corylopsis too. It is too hot and the air too dry 
in summer for Cerdiciphylum to do well up here on the hill-top but 
they do well deep in the valleys around here where the soil is deep 
and rich and where the water table remains high all summer.

I hope to be at Pritemps de Courson in 2001 when I go to give 
lectures in the USA and take a holiday with my wife afterward in 
Europe but an autumn visit is some way off while I must work - when I 
am retired perhaps and travelling more as a writer and lecturer.

regards

trevor n




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