Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener

Award winner author of gardening humor books

"...some of the rarest days of the year come in September, days when it is comfortably cool but pulsing with life." ~Hal Borland

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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – October 2024

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Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for October 2024. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, October has a variety of blooms, though there are few it can really call its own. August owns some of the flowers, like these hardy begonias, which have been bloom for several months. Other flowers […]

An Assault on My Floral Sensibilities

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I never expected when I walked into the grocery store today that I would have my floral sensibilities assaulted, but here we are. I saw tulips for sale in October. I repeat. I saw tulips for sale in October. Yes, those are tulips, those quintessential SPRING flowers, for sale in the fall with mums behind […]

Garden Fairies Are Busy in the Fall

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Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we see that Carol has not posted on this blog for well over a week so we are garden fairies, we are going to save this blog once again from disappearing into the internet the way a leaf disappears in a compost bin and becomes something unrecognizable. […]

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Check Out My Books

I’ve written five books of humorous gardening advice, guaranteed to make you smile and provide some good gardening advice.  Check out one or all five!

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts From a Gardening Life

Creatures and Critters: Who’s In My Garden

Digging and Delighted: Live Your Best Gardening Life

And I’ve written two children’s books, both illustrated by my nephew.  If you know a kid or were once a kid, you need both!

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages

The Halloween Hare: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages

Will I write more books? Seeds have been planted, shoots are coming up. We shall see!

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Or maybe you are fondly recalling the days when I posted all of my grandmother’s diaries from the 1920’s online and wondering if they are still there? They are, at least for now.

Or where did that hoe collection go? It’s here, but not well-formatted or quite up to date.

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