Hazelnut flowers

So beautiful!

Very well captured, Ron!

Very interesting shape and color! Beautifully captured! They are new to me!

Is it really completely in bloom ?
Mine isn't yet but it should bloom in Winter and the flowers are yellow and bigger than here ...

I think they are beyond their full bloom Christiane, because the photo was taken in mid April. Hamamelis or Witch Hazel open their flowers either in fall (H. virginiana, Sept-Nov) or in winter (three more north american varieties, Jan-March).
I suppose yours is an ornamental selection or even an hybrid breed of amercian and east asian varieties, which you won't find in nature.

Well Ron, definitively not a Hazelnut in an european sense (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeine_Hasel - I took the german site, because the images are more and better). How could it, you mentioned, it is a local hazelnut - and Europe isn't really local in the state of Washington. ;-)
It is a Hamamelis, what is named by wikipedia as Witch-hazel (and I found it very interesting, it has nothing to do with a magican. It origins from middle english wiche, which means bendable, pliant - and is so close to the nowadays german weich = soft, but also bendable etc. ... except the last bit, you can read all that on wikipedia article Witch-hazel).
All I still wonder is, which variety you found. All I could read about their home, was the north-east, from Nova Scotia to Minnesota, and south from Florida to Texas ... H. mexicana growths in north eastern Mexico and I know, the mexican border once was further north. But that far?? ;-)
So, what did you get in front of your cam? A refugee out of a garden, or did you discover a new variety?

We are here to show and "talk" about photographs, aren't we? Well, I am afraid, I am more gardener than photographer ... sorry.

I am a gardener too, Leon ! (:o)) ... not as talented as you are regarding the names, etymology and origin of plants, but I have a (too) big garden here where I am working about every day.
Thanks a lot for all that you explained me and Ron about the Hamamelis. And yes, mine is an ornemental selection.
Have a lovely week end over there.