Garrya

Garrya is a genus of just 8 species of evergreens, confined to western North America and northern Mexico. They are dioecious, meaning the flowers are either male or female, and selections of Garrya are nearly always male because the flower tassels are longer. 

Here in our garden in the PNW, the winter holidays signal that the Garrya catkins are elongating and that the New Year will soon be a visual feast of silk tassel flowers.