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What can gardeners do if their yards include the moth’s preferred foods — not just oak trees, but apples, willows, paper birch and all those Hamamelis cousins, among others?

If you want native witch hazels, a species from Mississippi named Hamamelis ovalis and related to the vernal witch hazel is a delightful thing with profuse clusters of spiky, carmine-red blooms.

Wild Hamamelis is widely distributed across the globe.

Hamamelis x intermedia are commonly available at nurseries, and are the most widely used witch hazel species in landscape applications today.

Once you’re convinced that Hamamelis deserves a place in your winter garden, it’s just a question of which colors you want to see on your witch hazels.