Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for September 2023. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, summer started with a dry spell and appears to be ending with a dry …
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Thank goodness I have 'Midnight Snack' tomatoes growing this summer because without them—and a few other cherry-type tomato varieties—I wouldn't have many homegrown tomatoes to eat. The main reason …
Have you ever walked around your garden and thought to yourself, "I used to have fill-in-the-blank-with-missing-plant. Now where is it?" I used to have a variegated toad lily. Now where is it? …
Where was I? Hints: Beavers make dams there. A heron flies overhead. The Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) was blooming just off a gravel trail. A fallen tree became a nurse log …
And once again, I am not going to taste a pawpaw fruit from my pawpaw trees this year. My two pawpaw trees, this one pictured and another one on the other side of the garden, didn't flower all …
"Hurry, Fall is upon us." But there was no "hurry" for the colchicums who waited all through spring, when crocuses got all the attention. And kepting waiting all through summer when countless …
