You paid for the scion being grafted onto it so try to save the scion. The main thing would be (or have been, as the case may be) to get the two new halve tightly and precisely re-connected before they dried out too much. If you lose/have lost the scion all you will have is the (usually) ornamentally inferior rootstock, unless the entire crown was actually crushed. Here these are usually grafted onto Virginia witchhazel, which although interesting for flowering in October does not make much of a show and tends to have dead leaves present at the same time.

LibraQueen81 I'd put a Witch Hazel Pallida in the most sunny location you can. It gets large and fragrance will carry better than many others. If zone 6 or higher, it sounds like a potentially great location for Hydrangea (add more compost dug deeply if on dry side). Hydrangea have extremely long bloom season, wide range of colors and leaf textures (not yellow or orange though), and you will see them from a distance! Fast growing and easy to propigate on site to fill the space (try ground layering). $10 - 30 can fill a 6' space in 3-4 years if plant right and match light needs. Added a few internet photos to get you thinking. The last one was from our former house along the front of our shady yard. Only 1 - 2 hr direct sun daily. Hydrangea aspera 'Macrophylla' and two Hygrangea macrophylla 'Mathilda Gutges' are there, along with 7' Orepet Lily 'Con D'Ora. Best part is with most macrophylla Hydrangea you can shift colors with pH adjustment or Aluminum Sulphate addition. The photo above is a start of the same deep cobalt blue Mathilda above in the the new yard with uneven garden lime addition. Colors can be anywhere between deep colbalt blue, purple and saturated pink. So you can balance colors ranges ... or change your mind later, without replanting. 'Selina' can be deep pink to red and bronze foliage. Need to fill space? Our giant Hydrangea aspera (labeled 'Sargentianum' but not verified) was 12' x 12' and in almost complete shade, but bright and open. Would get double the bloom with just a little more light. The leaves are 12" long and you can see them at a distance.

Did you ever find the information you were seeking on witch hazels? If you're still searching, try the web site for Rare Find Nursery in Jackson, NJ; link is below. I've always found their web site to be a good source of information. Just enter hamamelis in the search box in the upper right corner of the home page and you'll find information and photos on many different witch hazels. This nursery is about 20 minutes south of me; it's not far from Six Flags/Great Adventure ... but I'd much rather spend the day at Rare Find ;-) and is one of my favorite nurseries because they're serious, not glitzy, about what they do. Here is a link that might be useful: Rare Find Nursery

have been away from forums for a month or more. I have my 'Diane' planted with a holly right in back, but expect the Winter sun to catch it at the end of the day and make it glow. The color is intense and the flowers are usually abundant so I think you will be more than pleased. Mine has been in the holly shade for 3 years and so is slow, but has some flowers budded and bloomed a little last year. I expect it to reach beyond the holly shade in time. Posted pictures from last March on my bogturtle's garden blog from my visit to Longwood Gardens. 'Diane' was magnificent with snow on the ground.