Month: March 2016

  • Welcome Spring

     Crocus Unfolds a New Season Welcome Spring Equinox! Photography & Text â“’  Michaela Medina Harlow/The Gardener’s Eden. All photographs, artwork, articles and content on this site (with noted exceptions), are the original, copyrighted property of Michaela Medina Harlow and/or The Gardener’s Eden and may not be reposted, reproduced or used in any way without prior […]

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  • Mid-March Awakenings

     Sunlit Raindrops Dangle from Acer palmatum x dissectum ‘Seiryu’ The switch to Daylight Saving Time always rattles my schedule. I’m a morning person so I’ve just lost an hour in the early part of my day. This week, I feel like I’m constantly falling behind, but I know it’s only temporary. Soon the horizon will […]

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  • Sweet Reward of Early Springtime: Hamamelis vernalis, Ozark Witch Hazel

     The Sweet Scent of Ozark Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis), Fills the Air Out pruning and raking in the garden —lingering late in the garden on these long, warm days— the delightful scent of North American native, Ozark Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis), fills the air. When warm weather arrives early in Vermont —as it has this year— […]

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  • Back to the Garden

     Betula papyrifera on the Hillside at Sunrise After a light and lovely winter, spring has come early to Vermont this year. I went on two site visits this week and have begun work on my first garden design plans of 2016. Hard to believe it’s still early March. Hello again. It’s been a long while […]

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