Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Forsythia 'Gold Tide'. A smaller, forgiving forsythia that melts into the background of the garden after it blooms. Mine top out at around three, maybe four feet. Forgiving because though it …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for March 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I am pleased to report that spring flowers are popping up every day. I am not …
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“Here’s a snowdrop—for “hope”—and here’s pansy—for thought”— C. Preston-Wynne While looking through a stack of vintage postcards for images of violets and pansies, I ran across this one …
Last week, my garden club's speaker "ghosted" us, as the kids says. We attempted to contact the person, we did online searches for the person, and we came up with nothing. A no-show. It happens. So …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for February 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, all thoughts that we might escape winter with mild weather have been blown away …
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I've been reading quite a bit lately, mostly novels written in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. They are pleasant reads which don't require too much effort and because of when they were written, they …
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