Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for December 2025. Here in my USDA Hardiness zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we are cold and snow-covered, so the only picture I have of the garden was …
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Garden fairies here! Oh my, let us first dust off this blog and wipe away the cobwebs because Carol has been suspiciously absent and hasn't posted one single thing since her last post on the 15th …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for November 2025. If I didn't have the Christmas roses, Helleborus niger, blooming now, this would be a pretty short post. But who am I kidding? It's …
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Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies, and to say that we were displeased by the early snowfall this week would be a correct statement! But we were not distressed about it because we had …
Once upon a time, I bought a scented geranium, potted it up, and put it outside with other geraniums in a little theater set up. (Pelargoniums, actually, but you know what flower I'm talking …
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The other day, I bought a copy of The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen. Of course, my …
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