Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for February 2020. Here, in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we finally got a bit of snow a few days ago and then temperatures plummeted to …
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Sometimes you just do stuff because you find this cool website where you can upload photos and make interesting pictures like this one of me on an imaginary book cover. Maybe one day I'll write that …
I read in a book by Thalassa Cruso called Making Things Grow: A Practical Guide for the Indoor Gardener that the Chinese Evergreen was a dull plant, as houseplants go, but they were coming …
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Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and it is now late January and we can count on just one hand the number of times Carol has updated this blog. Four. And we don't need any smart …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2020. If you've been following along with bloom day since its beginning in February 2007, congratulations on completing 13 years of bloom day posts. …
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If you force hyacinth bulbs in vases, you'll notice that before the shoot sprouts, the roots grow. The roots are the foundation. They help to anchor the bulb in the vase before the top-heavy shoot …
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