Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Today's plant obsession is Aquilegia, common name Columbine, though some species are also called Granny's Bonnet. We have enough Granny's Bonnet here at May Dreams Gardens to open up a hat shop, a …
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I really must stay clean today because I am going to my niece's wedding and it just won't do to be other than clean. This means that I must stay out of the garden. Even though I think the …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for May 2013. Ah yes, the merry month of May, the month when the sky is blue, the grass is green, the sun is warm and the garden is all new again. I …
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Camassia quamash Blue skies touched my garden today and left their color on these flowers. This is quamash, Camassia quamash, a spring-flowering bulb. It grows in Plopper's Field, which …
This is not a portkey Hello! Garden idea number 5,439... I think I will add a portkey to my garden. A portkey, as fans of the Harry Potter books and movies know, is an ordinary object that is …
Strawberry blooms The bloom is on the strawberry and off the Korean Spice Viburnum. By golly, now that it isn't blooming, I think I can remove that Korean Spice Viburnum on the right side of …
