Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2017. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the first of the autumn crocuses, Crocus speciosus, showed up in time for bloom …
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To many gardeners, "frost" is a four-letter word, even in the fall of the year. Merely hinting that there is a chance of frost or whispering "frost" sends some gardeners scrambling to cover their …
If you don't fall in love with your garden all over again in the fall, then perhaps you don't love your garden at all? It's easy to love a garden in the springtime when every plant seems fresh and …
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I was all "tough gardener" this morning heading out to my garden to do some weeding and deadheading. I wasn't going to show any mercy as I began to pull out and cut back in Plopper's Field, my …
I'm trying to remember how it got started. How it became "a thing" for my friends and family, and sometimes me, to post pictures of Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life at locations literally …
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Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we always start out our posts with "garden fairies here" so you know it is us and not Carol writing these posts. We feel it is important for …
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