Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Camellias! As hardy as I could find. I blame the writer Eudora Welty for my recent purchase of camellias (Camellia japonica) for my garden. A while back, I read Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora …
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Mayapple bud Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we know the answer to the question "who opens all those flowers?" We do. Yes we garden fairies are responsible for opening every single …
Carolina Silverbell Blooms I'm not sure if the Carolina Silverbell tree in my garden is a testament to my laziness or to my stubbornness. Probably a little of both. It's a pretty little tree, or …
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Rainy Sundays. I suppose if we must have rain on a weekend, it is better for the rain to fall on Sunday rather than Saturday. I ran out to take a few pictures and check on the Vegetable Garden …
Star flowers. They capture the color of the sky and bring it to earth in a flower. It's been a spring of tweaking the garden a bit because, well, not all the plants are where I want them and I …
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Brunnera macrophylla Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for April 2015. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, it is most assuredly spring and every day something new is …
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