Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are not tattle tales but we feel that certain events here need to brought to the forefront so they can be explained. First and foremost at the …
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Goodbye, my old friend, my favorite gardening shirt. I knew this day was coming. I could sense it when we last gardened together yesterday. I kept you safe, remember, by wearing a long-sleeve …
I opened the blinds this morning and gasped with delight. Wait, that's not quite what happened. I opened the blinds this morning, jumped back in delight and stared in awe. I'm not sure that's quite …
"Do the wildflowers speak to you--do they know you as a friend, or pass you by as an alien? Do you know their names--their language--their secrets?" I know the wildflowers know my friend Gail of Clay …
A shrub, not a tree. Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' As I was mowing the lawn this evening, I imagined all the phytoncides I was breathing in and I was... delighted. Phytoncides are …
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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