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    Winter Spice

    Dec 31, 2021 3 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPHS ANNA OMIOTEK-TOTT

    Witch hazels are one of winter’s most distinctive shrubs, their quirky, spidery blooms making them instantly recognisable even before you’ve breathed in their inimitable scent. At their peak, these are shrubs that make a lasting impression, which is precisely the effect they had on Fiona Edmond, garden designer and owner of Green Island Gardens in Essex, and one of Plant Heritage’s National Collection holders of Hamamelis.

    “I first fell in love with hamamelis at the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park, when we used to live nearby,” she recalls. “I used to crave outdoor space,

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