Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
When a gardener shops for furniture, her eye is drawn to the wood furniture with the carvings of leaf branches. She wonders what plant that might be and if it is botanically correct. After all, she …
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I sat down last night to write out a blog post based on a presentation I gave as a participant in a panel discussion on garden blogging at the recent Garden Writers Association symposium in …
I see the world through garden-colored glasses. All around me I notice plants and flowers and I must have them around me as well. I rarely walk by a plant without an impulse to touch it. I see soil …
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I now have a copy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1677. Yes, that one. No. 1-6-7-7. "Planting and Care of Lawns". Published in 1931, updated in 1935. I now …
Everyone here at May Dreams Gardens is quite excited to be included as one of Horticulture magazine's Best Gardening Blogs. Apparently, they asked Thorn Goblinfly, the chief scribe of the garden …
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Please include more wildflowers and native plants in your garden. Chosen well, these plants, more so than many others, seem to survive, if not thrive, in a wider range of weather extremes. In my own …
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