Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
When a gardener flies on an airplance, leaving her garden just as the corn is tasseling, the tomato hornworms are threatening, and it is so hot that by mid-morning every plant wants to be the shade, …
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Pardon the dust on the hydrangeas, but the "patio guys" cut a lot of pavers to create this work of art that I call "the new patio" and it kicked up quite a bit of dust. But now they are done and I …
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I went on a search for all the verses of “The Diehards”, a poem by Ruth Pitter published in 1941 in a book of her poems called “The Rude Potato”. I had read little snippets taken from the poem, which …
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, Don’t you just hate when people say “hot enough for you”? Well, is it hot enough for you where you are? It has turned hot here, with high …
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The garden designer and her partner, the hort-abler, returned one evening late this past week to survey the back yard and discuss “what next” in my garden design process. “What next” included a …
It’s been a good week in the garden, graced, even momentarily, by a pair of bluebirds. I don’t know much about birds, but I believe that there are more birds in my garden now that I’m working with a …
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