Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2011. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden in central Indiana the first two weeks of October have been some of the best "summer" days we've had …
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Given a choice would you prefer to have one garden that was yours to tend for many years so that you could enjoy the trees and plants you planted and see how they mature and how the garden evolves …
Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and so we never do anything when we are supposed to do it. We procrastinate. In fact, we are procrastinating right now and doing a mighty find job of …
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Throw me a liana and hoist me up out of this new rabbit hole I've been exploring. Liana, you ask? Yes, liana - a woody vine that is rooted at the ground and uses trees and other …
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium 'October Skies'. These October days have been the best days of summer so far this year. In all likelihood, we probably did have some nice summer days, but they are …
"Golden leaves carpet the ground beneath the honey locust, each one a memory of summer." Dear Hortense Hoelove, What is it about fall that makes us become reflective and …
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