Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
I've posted advice before about what gardeners should talk about on Thanksgiving, most recently in 2015... but... wait. What? 2015 isn't recently? That was eight years ago? Really? That's not the …
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Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies, and we are reporting in that we have completed the removal of nearly all the leaves from all the trees. Except for the oak trees. We'll be working on …
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Ready for winter? In your garden? I think I am, and even if I wasn't we got a good amount of rain overnight so it's too wet to do much in the garden today. It's an inside day. But if it was …
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I shall presume you have some knowledge of The Halloween Hare, how he tells secrets about gardeners to the Christmas Cottontail so when the Christmas Cottontail visits with Santa Claus on Christmas …
One of the easiest and most dramatic houseplants to grow and keep alive is the Bird of Paradise plant, Strelitzia sp. It's also easy for people to recognize, especially when it's in flower, like the …
If you have a hellebore blooming now, or sometime over the winter, chances are it is Helleborus niger, commonly called the Christmas Rose because it usually blooms in the wintertime. Though …
