Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
The foliage looks like Geranium, doesn't it, but what is that flower?It's a flower most people wouldn't expect to see in a Zone 5 garden.It's a cactus flower.This is an Opuntia, Prickly Pear Cactus.I …
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You know you are a gardening geek when you proclaim you are going to undertake a project to catalog all of the plants in your garden, AND you actually start on it and have something to show for your …
Do you know what these numbers are? 81, 83, 78, 81, 81, 81, 80, 78, 81How about these numbers? 36, 35, 32, 29, 17, 32, 36, 29, 26Need a hint?Here’s one: June and JanuaryStill don’t know?The first set …
Following a certain self-imposed etiquette of garden blogging, I am putting the picture of the horrifying MAGNOLIA SCALE INFESTATION here at May Dreams Gardens at the end of this post. The picture of …
I’ve been running a little ‘gardening gloves boot camp’ here at May Dreams Gardens, putting a new pair of gloves through various drills and exercises in the garden to see how well they hold up.We’ll …
Like all gardeners should, I welcome pollinators to my garden. The more bees I see around the flowers, the better I feel about the garden, and life in general. I never worry that a bee will sting me, …
