Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Camellia in the snow, shivering. Dear Reader, I'm traveling along through life at the speed of the garden. And when it is winter, the garden moves along kind of slow. Everything is more or …
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Helleborus × ballardiae ‘HGC Cinnamon Snow' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2016. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the question of whether we would …
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I love seed catalogs. I love how they all work the same way. Vegetables are usually presented first and arranged in alphabetical order. Arugula, then beets, then cabbage, all the way to …
Last year's lily of the valley blooms Winter interest? You mean winter interest outside in the garden where it is now cold? I like to admire the "winter interest" in the garden while standing on …
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Hellebores bloom for the new year. The old rabbit, Fifteen, took one more walk around the garden while she waited for Sixteen to arrive. She lingered a bit and admired all she had done through the …
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have come in from all the rain for two very important reasons. The first very important reason is of course to dry ourselves out. It has been …
