{"id":139,"date":"2008-04-07T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/07\/my-late-winter-garden\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T13:50:09","slug":"my-late-winter-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/my-late-winter-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"My Late Winter Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am a gardener.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a botanical artist, I use my garden as the inspiration for my work. I also use it as a fitness gym to keep me healthy, strong and flexible. The other side benefit that no gardener ever mentions is that the more gardening you do the more ice-cream you can eat without gaining weight. Isn&#8217;t that enough reason to take up gardening?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/witch-hazel1.jpg\" alt=\"Hamemelis x intermedia \u2018Arnold Promise\u2019 lighting up my late winter garden.\" align=\"left\" \/>My witch hazel, otherwise known as <em>Hamamelis x intermedia<\/em> &#8216;Arnold Promise&#8217;, begins blooming in February in my neck of the woods. I&#8217;m located in zone 6, on Long Island, NY in the United States which is latitude 40.900N and longitude -73.343W. The elevation is listed as 59 feet but I&#8217;m at the top of a series of hills so I&#8217;m a bit higher up from the town harbor. This means that I get a little bit more snow than other parts of my town and it lasts longer.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken on March 1, 2008 and it shows the view from my kitchen window. Looking slightly left, through the V shaped branches of my Paperbark maple, you can see the witch hazel in bloom. I planted that shrub in August of 1999 and it lights up the garden for close to two months beginning in February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/witch-hazel-close-up.jpg\" alt=\"Celebratory strings of confetti herald the coming of spring on my witch hazel.\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I positioned it as a focal point to pull my eye out to the woodland walks. I wanted to see the cheerful yellow color  from warmth of my kitchen without having to brave the elements on a cold late winter day. It is such a welcome harbinger of spring that it often seduces me to brave the cold to see what else might possibly be in bloom so early in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ribbons of paper thin confetti dangle from the branches as if in anticipation of celebrating the spring season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a gardener. 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