This is commonly recommended in Great Britain for its winter flowers.
It has long been hardy at the Arnold Arboretum (Bost...Read Moreon Z6a). However, here it blooms in April. The flower buds are formed the previous season, and here our frigid winters leave them blasted more often than not.
After a mild winter, when bloom is good, I find the flowers are attractive on close inspection but not very showy from a distance. They are small, and their color is a pale straw-yellow. If they bloomed in May, they wouldn't be noteworthy.
Here this shrub typically grows 4-6' tall and wide.
Dearborn Heights, MI (Zone 6a) | September 2014 | neutral
Propagation
Apart from seed (if you can get it), plants can be raised from summer cuttings taken with a heal in late July and give...Read Moren bottom heat, to root well before the onset of leaf-fall.
Alternatively, and easier, is by the layering of low branches in June and July, into soil which organic matter has been added and kept moist to aid rooting. Plants should be ready to be detached in the following spring.
This is commonly recommended in Great Britain for its winter flowers.
It has long been hardy at the Arnold Arboretum (Bost...Read More
Propagation
Apart from seed (if you can get it), plants can be raised from summer cuttings taken with a heal in late July and give...Read More
Small pale yellow bells about 4" long contrast with purplish brown bare twigs.