The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”
Holiday Gift Market
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed’s High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed’s High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil. Smith’s legendary high-yield gardening method emphasizes wide rows, organic methods, raised beds, and deep soil. Succeed with fussy plants, try new and unusual varieties, and learn how to innovatively extend your growing season. With thorough profiles of hundreds of popular varieties, The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible provides expert information and an inspiring roadmap for gardeners of all skill levels to enjoy abundant homegrown vegetables.
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants, and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle, and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web. You’ll discover that healthy soil is teeming with life—not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. This must-have guide is for everyone, from those devoted to organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy plants without resorting to chemicals.
Spiders in Your Neighborhood
Spiders in Your Neighborhood: A Field Guide to Your Local Spider Friends A fun, friendly, all-ages field guide to common Western spiders
Spiders! Scary? Maybe. Cool? Definitely. Author Pat Stadille used to be terribly afraid of these eight-legged daddies, until he started learning more about them. Now spiders are his best friends! Once you hear about their silky skills, hunting habits, and generally shy and gentle nature, you might feel the same way. Learn about jumpers, wolf spiders, tarantulas, the “bird turd spider,” and, of course, the black widow!
Celestron Binoculars
Look at the world beyond the limits of your eyes with these 4x magnification binoculars that are lightweight and designed for small hands. The attached neck strap keeps the binoculars handy and can be stored in the handy carrying case when not in use.
The Celestron Binoculars feature high quality, coated lenses; 4.3 degree x 225 foot field of view at 1000 yards. While these are small enough for kids – they’re much more than a toy.
Our 2023 Holiday Market Opens Sept. 30th!
From your previous visits in the last eleven years, many of you know that our Holiday Gift Market is the most rewarding, enjoyable place to shop for your holiday gifts, relaxed and far from the madding crowd! When the Covid pandemic began, we realized that the only way we could keep our customers (and staff) safe and happy while shopping our Holiday Gift Market was to move it up to October!
Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range
Nearly everyone loves butterflies! We watch them because they’re exquisitely beautiful, but they also have magical life cycles and intricate relationships among their host ecosystems. Are you overwhelmed by the array of possibilities in field guides that cover a broad geographic range?
This expanded second edition is a user-friendly book focusing on 100 frequently seen species in the Colorado Front Range. Easily identify butterflies using over 120 striking color photos of individuals in their natural setting, and clear descriptions of both males and females. Each entry also includes that species’ habitat and life cycle, the caterpillar’s host plants, and look-alike butterflies. The introduction includes tips on where to find butterflies, how to get close to them, and what we can do to attract them to our gardens and preserve their sensitive habitats. Belongs in every Colorado hiker’s backpack or back pocket!
Amber Lights Beeswax Candles
Our friend Clark has turned what used to be a family hobby into a full-time business. In his Longmont studio, he makes a delightful cast beeswax candles that come in a wonderful variety of shapes and sizes, including a number of designs that are cast in antique and modern European candle molds. In addition, we are offering Amber Lights hand-dipped beeswax taper candles and Hanukkah candles.
Amber Lights candles are highly decorative, wonderfully detailed, naturally endowed with a heavenly honey scent, and burn clean and smokeless. 
Hanukkah begins Wednesday, December 4th. A set of dripless, smokeless, hand-dipped beeswax candles from Amber Lights contains all the candles you’ll need to light the Menorah through the entire 8-day holiday. And they smell wonderful! And they come in a lovely blue mesh bag. And they are Local. And if you have no use for Hanukkah candles, we have everything from birthday candles to 6″ pillars, bee-skeps to Buddha heads, Deco to dragons, reindeer to roses, all beautifully crafted from our friend Clark at Amber Lights.
Avian Designs
Avian Designs
Avian Designs – Longmont artist Amy Gates of Avian Designs enjoys combining her love of the earth and her creative side into making unique up-cycled leather and vintage tin jewelry. By using repurposed items like thrifted leather/suede jackets and vintage cookie tins, she is able to take something old and discarded and give it new life by making it into wearable art! Avian Designs donates 5% of all sales The Trevor Project, a non-profit organization which focuses on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth.
Garden Anatomy Toolbelts
Susan at Garden Anatomy is a friend to Harlequin’s staffers. Her love of gardening blended with her desire for a beautiful, functional gardening toolbelt resulted in some of the prettiest toolbelts we’ve seen. We’re glad to bring them to you at this year’s market.
Holiday Market New Arrivals
We’ve restocked our Holiday Market shelves with many new and popular items including
Semi-precious stone earrings from Kate Head, Pebble Art Jewelry
Amber Lights Candles in a stunning array of creative designs
Indigo Blues natural hand-dyed napkins, shawls, and clothing
Eve Weaves handwoven scarves, so beautiful and soft
Eve’s Gluten-free Pecan Shortbread Cookies; a fresh batch has just arrived!
Aiden Chopra
Aidan Chopra makes delightfully light, colorful, practical pottery. His path from drawing to jewelry to architecture to software to clay is evident in his work. Mostly it’s about good craft and constant experimentation. Aidan lives in Boulder, teaches design at CU, and is happiest when he’s making beautiful, functional things.www.chickenkickpottery.com
Eric Binkley’s Succulent Gardens
Eric Binkley’s succulent gardens.Driven by his passionate love of outdoor spaces, Eric re-creates natural scenery in living miniature. He has a gift for using low-light tolerant, low-maintenance plants in second-hand ceramics in delightful combinations, making the serenity of the remote outdoors accessible indoors! Eric is a beloved team member at Harlequin’s Gardens.
Erin Huybrechts Davis Art (Green Meadow)
Erin Huybrechts Davis says she has been a painter for as long as she can remember. She grew up on the east coast, has her degree in painting and printmaking, and a masters degree in education. She now lives here in Longmont, CO, where she is a freelance illustrator and teaches art to young people.
We were struck by her flowing, stylized and poetic depictions of the natural world. She is inspired by patterns and imagery from Asia, where she has traveled, and this influence is evident in her work as well. We were struck by her flowing, stylized and poetic depictions of the natural world. We are delighted to offer Erin’s work again this year!
Eve’s Botanical Prints
In the process of de-cluttering, Eve unearthed her remaining botanical prints, long thought to be sold out. Before her work schedule became too demanding, Eve painted flowers for Botanical Interests seed packets, for private clients, and for the sheer pleasure of examining and revealing the wondrous details of the floral world. Eve’s botanical paintings have been exhibited in Denver, Chicago, and internationally. We’re happy to add these prints to our holiday market again!
Holiday Market Updates & Good News from the Old Guy
We are appreciative of the community support at our Holiday Market opening weekend! With the perfect autumnal weather, more people than ever were able to enjoy our local musicians, Sandra Wong & Jon Sousa’s world music, and Margot Krimmel’s traditional and original harp pieces.
This week we roll-out new artisan arrivals, with some photos below. [Read More]
Heather Doyle-Maier
Heather Doyle-Maier is a Denver artist who makes unique and small-edition handmade books. Trained in book arts and conceptual art, Heather recently shifted her studio focus to creating books that are delightful and celebratory, as well as books that are supportive and encouraging during life challenges and changes. In particular, her “Permissions” books strive to meet people where they are and give themselves permission to meet themselves there, too. Heather also teaches workshops on creative bookmaking and on supporting the creative process along the Colorado Front Range.
Julie Neri – Ceramic Earrings
One of our favorite ceramic artists, Julie has recently extended her texture and pattern themes to the realm of jewelry, bringing us her new lightweight ceramic earrings and necklaces!
Jeanne Visvader
Eve’s friend Jeanne Visvader joins our market this year with of few of her diverse artistic offerings – handmade leather-bound journals finished with unique vintage buttons, delightful little baskets woven from local Ponderosa pine needles, and jewelry ranging from festive and funky Halloween/Dia de los Muertos earrings to striking bracelets of fine Thai hill-tribe silver and semi-precious stones. Like Eve, Jeanne grew up in the art museums of New York City, and continues to draw inspiration from a vast palette of artistry and design elements that keep her creating.
Jeanne Visvader
Eve’s friend Jeanne Visvader joins our market this year with of few of her diverse artistic offerings – handmade leather-bound journals finished with unique vintage buttons, delightful little baskets woven from local Ponderosa pine needles, and jewelry ranging from festive and funky Halloween/Dia de los Muertos earrings to striking bracelets of fine Thai hill-tribe silver and semi-precious stones. Like Eve, Jeanne grew up in the art museums of New York City, and continues to draw inspiration from a vast palette of artistry and design elements that keep her creating.
Jen G Studios – Artist Jennifer Ghormley
Jen G Studios – Artist Jennifer Ghormley Jennifer is a Denver artist producing a diverse array of delightful designs on kitchen towels so lovely you’ll want to keep them out on display. Her images range from mountain-scapes to wildlife, trees, wildflowers, birds, and cats. Some are wood-block carvings and others are screen-prints, all hand-printed in small batches on soft, absorbent, unbleached 100% cotton flour sack material. These 24” x 36” towels are food-safe and machine washable.
Joleen Smith
Joleen Smith is a Boulder-based artist known for vibrant, nature-led visuals and community-centered work. The tea towels that Joleen designs are custom linoleum cut and hand printed on 100% cotton towels.
Joleen also creates garden flags that carry images of Sacred Datura flower, Fireweed and the Flatirons, Bees on Echinacea and Swallowtail butterflies on Mock Orange among others. These are also carved into linoleum blocks and printed on reused fabric from Boulder’s ArtParts. Hang them in your garden and speak your wishes into the flags. When the wind blows, the fabric threads that eventually wear down and blow away, and the wind will release your wishes into the wild.
Julie Neri Pottery
Julie Neri creates all of her whimsical ceramic pieces in her garage studio in Longmont, Colorado. Her work is based in texture, inspired by nature and infused with a touch of whimsy. Growing up on the Connecticut shore gave Julie Neri an appreciation for sea life, trees, leaves, flowers and the patterns found within nature. You will see many of these patterns reflected in the texture of her clay creations. 
Julie began her relationship with clay through the need for a non-intellectual pursuit after obtaining her Masters in Public Administration. That was 30 years ago and clay has since become an essential part of her life. She started by throwing on the wheel and took many years of adult classes. She later started her studio in her house, began exploring hand building and found that hand building is what she craves. She is known for her leaf trees, houses, painter’s palettes, vases, small dishes and garden flowers.
You can find Julie’s work at art galleries and art markets in Northern Colorado, and in her online Etsy Shop. Julie’s Website is JulieNeriPottery.com.
Harlequin’s Gardens Gift Certificate
Any gardener will be thrilled to receive a Gift Certificate to Harlequin’s Gardens! Our Gift Certificates are available in any denomination. With a gift certificate, your recipients can select from our wide array of neonic-free plants, soil products, gardening and bee-keeping tools and supplies, and more!
Visit our website, or our store, to purchase your Gift Certificate.
Kathleen Lanzoni Art Cards and Prints
Our amazingly gifted friend Kathleen Lanzoni is an acclaimed watercolor painter and an award-winning signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society, the Western Colorado Watercolor Society, the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society and the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. She grew up in Montreal and California and has lived in Colorado for over 28 years. Residing in Boulder, Kathleen divides her time painting between the studio, Plein Air (outdoors on location) and on-site murals.
The list of her well-deserved awards is a mile long. We are featuring prints and notecards of her luminous paintings.
Linda Toomre Fiber Arts
Linda loves color! And she loves the creative process of making things from yarn or cloth. She started out in fiber arts as a weaver, but expanded into other forms as well, and is now also an accomplished quilter. She has brought her popular heat-insulated quilted cotton potholders, along with handwoven placemats and scarves to our Holiday Market.
Linda has been an active member and past president of the Handweaver’s Guild of Boulder for many years, with galleries throughout Colorado showing her work.
Sondra Finch Cards & Bookmarks
Sondra’s beautiful pressed-flower botanical cards and ornaments are a true delight and will be treasured for years!
Matt Bubernak
New this year! Matt Bubernak’s botanical and adventure-inspired ceramic mugs will warm your hands and feed your soul. Their balance and weight feel just right in your hand, and the earthy colors fit any décor.
Theresa Haberkorn Woodcut Printed Products
Theresa Haberkorn, woodcut printmaker, has made Boulder her home for more than two decades. Her masterful woodcut prints are found in exhibits and collections nation-wide, and she teaches her artform as well. Theresa brings her art to hand-crafted household items like house-sculpture vases and candleholders, dishtowels, a charming wall calendar, and an assortment of cards. 
To find out more about the process of woodcut printing, visit Theresa Haberkorn Artist | Printmaker | Designer.
Seeds from MASA
Organic, non-hybrid, heirloom seeds grown and maintained in the stunning bio-region of the Colorado Front Range.
MASA Seed Foundation was established to meet a clear and growing need: to reinvigorate regional organic seed breeding, conserve plant biodiversity, and ensure that high-quality, open-pollinated seed remains in the public domain for farmers and communities of the Front Range.
Seeds from Botanical Interests
Botanical Interests goes to great lengths to provide all the information you need, and more (like an illustration of what the seedling looks like when it emerges), on both the outside and the inside of the packet, plus stunning, botanically accurate illustrations by highly skilled local artists adorning the front of each packet! We have carefully selected varieties from their catalog that will thrive in Colorado’s short season, early heat, cool nights, etc.
Enjoy them in your own garden and share them with a friend.
Rejuvenated Remnants
Joan Hemm began working with the fabrics found in thrift-store draperies, duvet covers, tablecloths, and sheets in high school where there was no budget for costumes for the drama department’s productions. We first met Joan at a Boulder County Farmer’s Market, where she was dressed in a wonderful period costume portraying Susan B. Anthony in honor of Women’s Suffrage, and armed with voter registration forms. She had, of course, made her costume from remnants.
Fashioned from top quality ‘designer’ home decor fabric remnants (small new, unused leftovers), Joan reimagines the fabrics into one-of-a kind crossbody bags for us. She designed her pattern based on features she personally wanted: a “gusset” to create a roomier interior, a pocket on the back for a cell phone, inside pockets, cotton linings, and an adjustable strap. Just what we all wanted!
Sondra Finch Knitwear
Hat adornments by Sondra
Sondra joined us late in our 2015 holiday market and her fun, original hand-knitted hats and headbands immediately set
off a buying frenzy! Eve gets compliments wherever she goes when she wears the fabulous feathery headband Sondra made, even from strangers on the street!
We’ve stocked up on her pieces this year, including her soft, snuggly hats and headbands, as well as her beautiful pressed-flower botanical cards.
SallyeAnder Skin-Care Products
SallyeAnder is a 2nd generation family owned and operated natural skincare company making high quality handmade soap & creams since 1982. Their products are made with natural ingredients and only pure essential oils. Eve discovered their products about 7 years ago, when she started using their herbal Foot Therapy and Hand Therapy creams on her cracked, dry skin and found them to be more effective and therapeutic than any others she had tried (and there had been many). Our customers have reported their excellent results, too! They are also pleasant to use, and they don’t leave you with a plastic tube to send to the landfill. Equally impressive are their No-Bite-Me Bug repellent & after-bite cream and soap, which are highly effective, smell good, and are safe even for babies. Gardener’s Hand Soap is perfect for hard-working hands, moisturizing and healing, and it is also a great stain-remover for hands and clothing. We also chose several of their other fine soaps.
The SallyeAnder company is committed to making ethical, effective, and sensitive-skin friendly products that really work. All are hand-made, 100% hypoallergenic, and vegan.
Amy Mundinger Designs | Pine Tree Studios
Amy Mundinger of Pine Tree Studios is truly a gifted craftswoman, with a keen eye for color and design, and well-honed skills in fiber arts from crochet to embroidery, felting to block-printing, and free-motion quilting with hand-dyed 100% cotton fabrics. Amy is an active and prominent member of the Handweavers Guild of Boulder. This year, she’s offering innovative handmade cards.
Gardening Tools
Plants are, of course, the main thing every gardener wants in their garden. But to garden, one also needs some tools, and the quality of those tools makes a BIG difference in the comfort, ease, and speed of getting those garden chores done. Durability, reliability, precision, and ergonomic design don’t generally come cheap. A quality handsaw or pole-saw, a pair of pruning shears, loppers or hedge-trimmers will, with a little maintenance, last a lifetime.
We love our hori-hori knives, and we have our favorite, nearly indestructible trowels for you this year.
Did someone you love just plant a home orchard? A berry patch? A new landscape? They’re going to need some good tools, and we’ve got them!
Japanese Knife-Weeder (Hori Hori)
Reviewed by former HG staffer Deb:
“This is the best all-around tool ever! Whenever I go out into the garden with no particular task in mind (other than peace of mind putzing) I grab this tool. It can dig, saw into fat roots, slice into bindweed roots with the pointed tip, it’s wonderful. I have a sheath for it which slides nicely onto a regular belt or garden-tool belt. I love using it for planting bulbs as I can make a deep, small hole. If I could only have one tool forever, I would choose this one.”
2022 Holiday Gift Market Opens Saturday!
From your previous visits in the last ten years, many of you know that our Holiday Market is the most rewarding, enjoyable place to shop for your holiday gifts, relaxed and far from the madding crowd! But these are strange and challenging times, and the pandemic has altered just about every facet of our lives. So, for a while there, we wondered how we could present a holiday gift market under the current circumstances. We realized that the only way we could keep our customers (and staff) safe and happy while shopping our market was to move it up to October!
[Read More]
The Victory Garden of Tomorrow – Garden Signs
Joe Wirtheim, a gifted young artist and designer in Portland, OR, is inspired to: “ignite America’s progressive streak by making work that builds confidence and excitement in a healthy, connected future. Since 2008 I have been making posters and other neat stuff to inspire better gardens, better food and better cities. I love what I do: think, draw, make and do. It’s my passion to communicate graphically and put creative ideas into action that drives me. I use illustration, type, color and layout to excite the viewer’s imagination. I turn these graphic ideas into quality goods, which, I’m proud to say, are made here in the USA.”
Joe’s beautiful designs, in the form of front yard signs and patches will help spread positive messages about actions we can all take to collaborate with nature so that we can improve our future!
Gifts for Foodies and other eaters
The Front Range is a hotbed of innovation and passion for quality food with real flavor and real nutritional value. Whether it’s the micro-brews, coffee, chocolate, heirloom vegetables, pasture-raised meats, or ancient grains, or the gluten-free, paleo, keto, or vegan diet, Front Range Coloradans have shown great support and enthusiasm for slow, locally-grown, organic, fair-trade and creative, locally hand-crafted foods.
You can pick up a mouth-full or a basket-full of some of our favorite locally crafted specialty foods this month at our Holiday Gift Market all of them will easily keep through the holidays and beyond. [Read More]
Final Week of our 2020 Season
We’ve heard from some of you that your trip to Harlequin’s for holiday gifts was your first foray into shopping since the COVID precautions began! This is such a strong affirmation that we are offering something of real value and importance to you, and we are honored to have this level of support!
As you know, most in-person concerts, craft fairs and holiday events have been cancelled, making it difficult for artists to connect with their audience.
Gardening Gloves
We love high-quality gardening gloves! Especially if they are made from recycled plastic bottles, are very durable and stand-up to several seasons of tough gardening. West County Gloves are machine washable and retain their shape, and they come in great colors and patterns! We carry their Work Glove, Rose Gauntlet, Mud Glove and Grip Glove, all in a range of sizes. We have many other kinds of gloves so that you can get the ones that are perfect for your needs.
If you give these gloves as a gift, be assured that the recipient is welcome to exchange them for a different in-stock size, as long as they are still unused and in their original packaging.
Wildflower Honey and Alfalfa Honey from Finding Nectar
Finding Nectar is a small farm and nursery in Arvada where they grow plants for pollinators, and
reap the resulting harvest of delicious, raw, unfiltered honey.
Eve’s Pecan Shortbread Cookies – Harlequin’s Exclusive!
Back (every year!) by popular demand: Scrumptious, rich, melt-in-your-mouth grain-free shortbread cookies, based on almond flour, sprouted pecans, and butter, subtly sweetened with a little maple syrup. Gluten-free, grain-free, mostly organic, no refined sugars. You don’t have to be gluten-sensitive to love these rich and satisfying cookies! Shortbread cookies will keep for a long time in your freezer or fridge (as long as nobody finds them!)
Ordinary Evelyn’s Jams
Evelyn McGlothlin’s journey with Ordinary Evelyn’s started with a simple love for preserving the vibrant, fresh
fruits from her West Virginia home. What began as a small-scale operation, making jams and preserves for family and friends, quickly gained attention as word of her delicious creations spread. People couldn’t get enough of the rich, homemade flavors and the perfect balance between sweet and tart, all crafted from Evelyn’s time-tested recipes. Now that she’s retired, her family is based here in the Front Range, and they’re continuing this small-batch tradition.
We have 5 kinds of jams and 2 dip mixes for you to sample and take home!
Holiday Gift Market
At Harlequin’s Gardens we always knew that nurseries in Colorado are seasonal, but our commitment to local, sustainable, high quality, beautiful, delightful, unusual and innovative is eternal. One of our owners, Eve Reshetnik Brawner, also happened to be a multi genre artist with artisan friends making amazing items without enough ways to sell them. So nine years ago we germinated the idea of a Holiday Gift Market that would not only provide our cherished customers with items that reflected the reputation we’ve tended with our outstanding nursery stock and sustainable garden center items, but would also keep our dedicated and amazing staff working in the off-season.
The market has flourished under Eve’s care and every year new artisans bloom and are discovered, while like a favorite perennial, beloved returning artisans continue to intrigue us and bring forth new delights, too. So regardless of whether you’ve been coming since that very first opening weekend or have yet to discover the most rewarding, enjoyable and entertaining place to shop for your holiday gifts (or yourself) please join us![Read More]
Backpack Explorer
There’s so much adventure and wonderment for young eyes, and here it comes in a series of books: Backpack Explorer Kits: On the Nature Trail, Bug Hunt, Discovering Plants and Flowers
Beauty Beyond Belief Seeds
BBB is a great local seed company, offering Rocky Mountain wildflower mixes, and flower seed mixes for supporting honey bees and wild bees and other seed mixes that are perfect for gifts or holiday party favors.
Stella Natura Astrological Planting Calendar 2027
The Stella Natura Wall Calendar is an easy-to-use, informative and beautiful planting and gardening calendar that shows the best times to take advantage of the cosmic influences of the moon, sun and planets. This is a research-based system that is used by Biodynamic farmers and gardeners.
We have been using this calendar for over 25 years and believe it has helped with germination of seeds, root development of cuttings, and healthy plant development. More than just a calendar – it’s packed with valuable information and insights for successful growing, from seed to harvest!
Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region
Musthrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region, is a comprehensive field guide to the most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms found in the region. This useful guide features introductory chapters on the basics of mushroom structure, life cycles, and habitats. Profiles include color photographs, keys, and diagrams to aid in identification, and tips on how to recognize and avoid poisonous mushrooms.