Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for May 2025. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, it is well and truly spring heading into summer. There are blooms everywhere you …
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Now, where were we? Oh yes, my last post was about the Garden Bloggers Challenge sponsored by GardenComm, and I believe I ended that post with May 5th. Shall we get caught up? For May 6, the …
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The folks at GardenComm tossed out a garden bloggers challenge for the month of May. They've listed posting prompts for every day in the month of May. I'm already four days behind, or more …
A few years ago, my neighbor asked me why all my tulips come back and bloom every year, while his tulips seem to bloom once, and then the next year, he gets a bunch of leaves and no blooms. It's a …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for April 2025. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I would describe our spring so far as "slow with wild storms mixed in." We've …
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Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we would like to state right from the beginning that we did not teach the birds to call out "weirdo, weirdo, weirdo" when Carol stepped out into the …
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