Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Kalimeris pinnatifida ‘Hortensis' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2013. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the growing season is winding down, though we …
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Let’s listen in as the Director of “A Play Called Autumn” conducts a rehearsal. Director: Queue up the asters for the opening number. And action! (Music plays, asters dance onto center stage with …
I'm getting ready to find out more about the writer Eudora Welty by reading One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place by Susan Haltom, Jane Roy Brown, and Langdon Clay (University Press of …
A lone Colchicum Now where were we? Oh yes, I was recalling how I had found the Secret Dairy of a Garden Fairy, returned it, and then found it again a few days later. Those fairies seem to leave …
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I sort of made a promise to myself that I wasn't going to read any more of the Secret Diary of a Garden Fairy. Then it rained. It rained and rained some more so I couldn't go out and actually work …
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Seems all I can think of these days is silver and gold purple and green. Purple and GreenPurple and GreenEveryone wishes for Purple and GreenHow do you measure its worth?Just by the pleasure it gives …
