Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
You know how it is on that first really fine spring day? You step outside and the sky is blue, the grass is green and the garden is all new again. It's the real beginning of the planting season, …
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The rescued African Violet is blooming, just two little pink flowers, but it is enough bloom that I think the plant is going to make it.If you're new to my blog, let me catch you up on this African …
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Recent posts on various and sundry garden and nature blogs about first snows, cloudy days, freezing rain and unspeakable cold are going to make our subtropical garden blogging friends think that they …
This Christmas or Thanksgiving cactus was too late for Thanksgiving, but too early for Christmas. And at the rate the blooms are fading, it won't be much for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day either. That's …
Welcome to the November meeting of the Garden Bloggers’ Book Club. Once again we virtually meet to share our thoughts on a book, this time, it's Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor …
(Frost on Autumn Joy sedum... late fall is definitely feeling a lot like winter.)When you are summoned to jury duty, take a book with you. In fact, take a good gardening book with you.Guess who had to …
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