Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers's Bloom Day for February 2015. If you have been posting faithfully for bloom day since the beginning, you are now starting your ninth year of bloom day posts. Yes, …
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Let us pause to remember the snowball bush, Viburnum opulus ‘Sterile’, for its years of service in my garden. It provided shelter for birds and blooms for me. It anchored one corner of the …
Snowdrop in the snow, as it should be. Are you ready? I looked at the weather forecast for tomorrow, a Saturday, and noted the high temperature will be 50F and there is no chance of rain. The …
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Hyacinths are blooming in the sun room. Winter-time and what's a gardener to do? Well, there's a lot a gardener can do, as it turns out. Here are five things your garden wants you to do this …
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First Snowdrop, January 24, 2015 Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have been watching this blog wondering if anyone was going to post anything and we didn't see anyone posting …
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I almost didn't see the box tucked behind the flower pot by the front door. Who knows, it may have been there for a couple of days. But I did finally see it. Inside was my new-to-me copy of The …
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