Notes from Havenwood

March: Garden Clean-up, Spring Flowers, New Map and Camera

A Galanthus nivalis in the Birch Walk that we found growing back by the pond when we arrived at Havenwood.

Welcome to Notes on Havenwood…

where I share more of the inner workings of my one-acre town garden in western Pennsylvania. We are located in a Continental horticultural zone 5/6 between the Great Lakes and the Appalachian mountains.

March has been a dramatic month of shifting weather. Freezing nights at 23°F (-5°C) and days nearing 70°F (21°). This is pretty typical weather for March that means waking to snow one day and taking your coat off the next. Just being inside, out of the wind and in the warm sun, is a treat this month, which has had nice sunny moments in the midst of chilly days.

We did not have a thaw this winter from December to March, so now there are many things that need to happen ASAP in the garden as the season rushes into bloom. It is a zero-to-sixty-miles-an-hour kind of month, though at each fresh snowfall, the urgency abates and the teapot is put back on again.

Let’s take a look on what was going on around Havenwood this March…

Crocus ‘Panda’ with my new camera… details below!

Helleborus ‘Confetti Cake’ in the Woodland this week.

Garden “clean-up”

I just loving leaving the perennial stems up to give me something to look at over our long, snowy winters. However it does lead to incredible panic here in our continental US location.