hazels
- plural of hazel.
Example Sentences
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When placing plants in the quiet-season garden, Fox recommends planting dark-flowered witch hazels where the winter sun will shine through their blossoms, and placing light-colored flowers against an evergreen backdrop.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
In theory, the warmer, shorter winter opens up new possibilities for the garden, allowing landscapes to become alive with such things as the misnamed autumn-flowering cherry tree, witch hazels, camellias, Japanese flowering apricot and snowdrops.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2021
We declare the season underway next week, but the natural stirring has been going on for some time, although probably unnoticed unless you grow camellias or witch hazels or keep honeybees.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2019
TUE Ray Larson, Curator of Living Collections, on witch hazels, 7:30 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2014
As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
