Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Brunnera macrophylla Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for April 2015. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, it is most assuredly spring and every day something new is …
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Vegetable Garden Cathedral I spent some much needed time in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral this weekend. Both the garden and I needed it. The garden needed it because it was quite a weedy …
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Viola sp. grown from seed many years ago. Oh, the controversy over violets! There are some people who consider violets of any species to be lawn and garden weeds which should be pulled out, …
Memories are triggered by many things, the snippet of a song, the whiff of a scent, a few sentences in a book... I was reading along through Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a …
Chionodoxa I'm quite pleased with how the Chionodoxa have begun to flower in the lawn just as the Crocus are beginning to fade. I like them so much I finally learned how to pronounce the name …
Chionodoxa sp. As the crocuses fade in the back lawn, the Chionodoxa ("key-own-a-dox-ah") are beginning to bloom and they'll be in bloom for Easter Sunday. Exactly as I planned! In preparation for …
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