Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
As Cicero is quoted as saying, “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” No doubt, Cicero was referring to a library full of books about everything but gardening. Those …
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Back behind the compost bins, I discovered fall color in the seed heads of Chenopodium album. I am a lazy gardener for not pulling out these plants months ago before they even got close …
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My new Corona® Garden Hoe and I cleaned up the vegetable garden earlier today. It didn’t take too long. The plants had mostly dried up before being hit with a bit of frost a few days ago. I easily …
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Someone asked me if I would be getting rid of my Stapelia since it has now bloomed, and I finally got to smell the flower to prove to myself that it really does smell like dead, rotting meat. Oh, …
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Three Views on Heliopsis helianthoides ‘Loraine Sunshine’ presented by Hortense Hoelove, the garden fairies, and Dr. Hortfreud. Heliopsis helianthoides 'Loraine Sunshine' Dear Hortense …
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Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' Remember June, when it rained so much that it seemed like the garden would be a jungle by mid-summer? My spring planted landscape plants got plenty of water …
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