Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for May 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, it's suddenly hot like summer after a spring that never seemed to warm up. Now …
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As more irises begin to appear in the garden, I've found another lost lady of garden writing, Ella Porter McKinney, who wrote Iris in the Little Garden (1927). I will confess I didn't find very …
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Walk the garden with me, and I'll show you the flowers of Mother's Day. Lily of the Valley We'll start with Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis. Some people consider it an invasive, …
"No garden can really be too small to hold a peony. Had I but four square feet of ground at my disposal, I would plant a peony in the centre and proceed to worship." And thus we are introduced to …
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Spigelia marilandica is one of the perennials I've wanted to try in my garden for quite some time. I cannot count how many times I asked for it at various greenhouses, nurseries, and garden …
(Inspired by a podcast called Lost Ladies of Lit, I've decided to write an occasional post about lost ladies of garden writing.) We begin with Kate L. Brewster, simply because her book was the …
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