Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
And now, the exciting conclusion of a tale of two plant catalogs. To catch you up, dear readers, we begin a ways back when I fell into a rabbit hole of old plant catalog references, which resulted in …
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The great Dr. Hortfreud has been studying gardeners, or at least one particular gardener, for years. She has observed that this gardener, and presumably many other gardeners, are prone to a …
Camellia X 'Snow Flurry' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for November 2015. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the blooms outside are scarce but like anything scarce, …
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I was quite pleased to recently purchase a copy of Roy Hennessey's 1961-62 Rose Catalog after reading about it a few days ago in a book of letters between the writers Eudora Welty and William …
Seedlings come up in the darndest places We need to address the poor manners of some of the plants around this garden. I don't want to point trowels in any particular direction but I believe doing so …
Knock Out Rose, I don't think Hennessey would approve I found Roy Hennessey unexpectedly the other evening while reading What There is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and …
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