Tom Gala 1997?
Recorded by Priscilla Herdman in 1997. Gala worked as an arborist in Philadelphia and recorded the song in 2011.
https://beckyandnicole.bandcamp.com/track/witch-hazel
Chorus:
I am looking at a witch hazel blooming in a garden
Bright, yellow flowers in the middle of wintertime
And I tell my heart be strong like the witch hazel flower
And you will not be injured by this dark and troubled time
I take myself alone to a place I know in winter
And I look at that south sloping bank covered with ice
And I tell my heart it all will melt and run down to the ocean
And you will not be injured by this dark and troubled time
We must say goodbye to the ones we love, we must say goodbye to many
And we must say goodbye in way too short a time
And I tell my heart be strong like the witch hazel flower
And you will not be injured by this dark and troubled time