Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Once again, it's the middle of a month and time to report in on the flowers blooming in our gardens. Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day! Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central …
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Garden fairie here! We are once again taking over the keyboard so that this blog doesn't just wither up and fade away like... like... like a rose petal that has silently fallen to the ground and …
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I'm going to start out by giving you an assignment so this blog post will make sense to you, or at least has a better chance of making sense to you. If you haven't read my blog post about the eight …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for July 2025. Here in my USDA :Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the first zinnia opened up just in time to push aside all other contenders for …
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I heartily recommend you get yourself some Pelargoniums. Now. Tsk. Tsk. I know what you were thinking as you looked at this photo of my Pelargoniums. You were thinking that I'm growing so many …
Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we decided that we should write something and post it on this blog for three reasons. First because if we don't, what will happen to it? Carol has …
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