Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, The other day on the way home from work, I stopped at a garden center and bought some grass seed and on impulse picked up the 2011 Old Farmer’s …
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Coleus 'Crimson Gold' You might be a gardening geek on Labor Day if... You plan to spend this bonus day off in your garden and hope it doesn’t rain even though you need rain and desperately want it …
A path through a future woodland garden... Imagine it with more plants... Little tiny plants that make you want to bend over and see them more closely. Bigger plants that hide the curve a bit and …
Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' Through my 10 20 30 many seasons of gardening, I’ve come to realize that September is just as important a month in deciding how the garden will look in the …
I find it very confusing to be in a garden where plants are blooming everywhere you look and there is no place to rest your eyes without seeing something else that screams out to be seen or if you do …
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Diervilla lonicera Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, In 48 hours, give or take, August will be over and it is on to September. Here in Indianapolis, we will remember this as a …
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