Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
For the past several weeks, at the end of the day, I’ve been enjoying a new book of letters, Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener edited by Emily Herring Wilson. …
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Is it my imagination, or are all the flowers of April bursting into a grand crescendo of bloom just in time for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day on the 15th? Will this be the year where even I give in …
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, I can hardly believe that a week has gone by since my last letter post. And I don’t have much to show for it, at least much to show of my …
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The violets are blooming. Can you believe that some people consider these to be lawn weeds? I often hear callers on a local home and garden radio program ask how to kill them because they are taking …
Once upon a garden, there was a gardener who loved all kinds of plants, or most kinds of plants. She bought plants that she liked and plants that she loved. She let plants follow her home and even …
We often joke about Lycoris squamigera, those late summer flowering members of the Amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, because when they bloom, the leaves are long gone. Some people refer to these …
