Witch hazel: nature’s medicine & dowser’s tool grows all ‘round here

by Kate Shunney

Our woods don’t offer up a lot of color in wintertime. That’s why the feathery yellow bloom of the witch hazel tree stands out to anyone scanning the hills and mountains from the late fall to the midwinter months of the year.

Because it only grows as a short tree (or a tall shrub, depending on who you ask), that witch hazel bloom is often right at eye level for those of…