Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
On the fourth Wednesday of the month, we are all invited by Gail of Clay and Limestone to post about wildflowers for Wildflower Wednesday. Gail organized this garden bloggers' meme to help …
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Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are compelled, once again, to post on this blog. We seem to be so compelled always at the end of a weekend. Why is that? Well, we are garden …
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Good morning, class! Good morning, Professor Hortledore. Well, class, don't you all look spiffy and shiny and ready to learn. Today in gardening class we are going to discuss "what elements …
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If you wonder why I buy and read old gardening books, I hope this passage from The Spirit of the Garden by Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1923) explains it. "Above all, let us have a sense of seclusion in …
The end of the story... I fell into a giant rabbit hole of old gardening books and when I finally found my way out, I brought with me, all the way from the 1920's, the nine books in The Little Garden …
Double Tiger Lily 'Flora Pleno' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for July 2013. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I rejoice this summer for all the rain and …
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