Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
You might be a gardening geek getting mail if... You've ever received a package in the mail that contained an old gardening book. You once waited on the front steps for the mail carrier because you …
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Hydrangeas are everywhere in Quebec City Did you miss me? I returned to my garden late yesterday afternoon after being away for almost a week at the Garden Writers Association symposium in Quebec …
My raspberries. They came to me in the early spring of 2012, three sticks with a few roots attached at one end. I planted them in an area where I had previously planted some shrubs on the edge of …
Unknown species of Rudbeckia Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for August 2013. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I am astounded by the difference between this year's …
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Big drops of red raspberries drip off into my hand. I pick. I eat. I pick some more. Very few make it all the way indoors. Why did I wait so long in my gardening life to plant raspberry …
"As I walked around my garden, I slowly began to realize that I had finally achieved my goal of a weed-free garden. I walked along the path I call Ridgewood Avenue, looking at the garden border …
