Just perfect...

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

If you enjoyed a movie like The Love Letter with Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh, you will enjoy this movie as well. It's sweet, gentle and bit sappy, but I was nearly crying at the end.

One of the reviewers here asked if Roses and Hyacinths can bloom at the same time. The answer is yes. Hyancinths of course bloom only in spring. Roses can bloom in mid-spring all the way into fall. Roses cannot endure weather that is too cold. But any decent Rose gardener can with impromptu mini green houses and warming of the beds start the growing and blooming process earlier. They can also extend the blooming period of Roses with the same techniques in the fall. Just don't plant Rose bushes too close to Plum trees.The movie starts with Brian Conner having his fiancé drop the engagement ring on his desk at his west coast business. Needing time to think he purchases an expansion business on the east coast that also makes web-sites. He wants to lease home living arrangements but instead is offered a run down cottage by a local Realtor. The price is right and he buys.The cottage has the capacity to have people at two different points of time being able to communicate with each other with limitations. The previous owners fifty years earlier can communicate with Brian. The previous owners are a husband and wife. David Lewis performs the role of despicable husband to perfection. Brian helps the wife as much as possible.I don't understand his previous fiancé showing up unannounced or at least close to that at his east coast home and business. It detracts from the movie rather than adds to it.How does it end? I leave that to you dear viewer to discover for yourself. I will say unlike another viewer here that the ending is much better than it would have been due to Brian Connor's efforts. At least he could do one thing at the end that he could previously not do.

If you suspend belief and just let yourself be entertained by it's simple,heart-warming message,you will be transported back to a more innocent time and place..in your heart and mind. Another reviewer asked if it was possible for hyacinths and roses to be flowering at the same time. In the north,yes.Both bloom in the spring,hyacinths in early spring and roses in mid-spring.. with that said nothing should detract from simply enjoying this as a simple romantic pleasure with a twist..Don't worry about endings or plausibility.Simply let yourself enjoy the period dialogue,mannerisms,cars,and great performances by the two lead characters. Anyone who became a romantic fan of Somewhere in Time or The Love Letter will find enjoyment in the adaption of impossible love..somewhere in the garden.Highly encourage you to see this.

In the tradition of Somewhere in Time, Kate & Leopold and The Gate House, Edge of the Garden reminds me of another very similar time travel romance movie from Hallmark Hall of Fame. When I first saw The Love Letter (1998), I decided that time travel romances were my absolute favorite, and this movie did not disappoint. It may be similar in structure but, in its own romantic way, it stands on its own. Keep up the good work, Hallmark – I hope you make more of these types of movies! Only one question - can roses and hyacinths bloom at the same time? A beautiful garden played a key center point in bringing the main characters together. At one point during the movie, it was mentioned these two flowers were blooming simultaneously. Hyacinths are one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring, and roses, as well as most of the flowers mentioned, are not early spring blooming. A very trivial point, considering this classic movie also deserves to be part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.