Looking out our home window this week, I shrieked that the Persian ironwood, Parrotia persica was in flower, while Anita looked on as though I’d lost my mind- which isn’t a rare occurence. I grant you, most folks probably don’t get as excited as I do, over flowers that normal folks can barely see, but I find mid-winter flowering trees like parrotia, fascinating. Parrotia is a cousin to other winter-flowering woody plants in the Hamamelidaceae family. Those include Hamamelis (witch hazel), Distylium, and Corylopsis (winter hazel). So, if you have a parrotia in your garden, check out the clusters of small, but colorful flowers
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If you go to the blog page, https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/blog/, and click the button that says “all” below the green bar that says welcome to the blog, you’ll find all of the old posts. The old blogs also come up on my computer using the search icon in the far upper right corner.
I love this tree!!! I have several including Vanessa which is a more upright grower. In addition to the spring flowers, the fall foliage is magnificant and the bark rivals the crape myrtles. The only fault I have is that it will produce suckers sometimes.