Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have been having fun in the Christmas tree here at May Dreams Gardens. It's a real tree, and we are scampering from branch to branch with the tree …
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Wintertime, and what does a gardener grow? Her library, of course. The steady stream of old gardening books showing up in my mailbox and on my doorstep has slowed down to a trickle now. I …
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For those who set up Christmas trees each year, I offer the following useful definitions: Treerangement - Noun. That odd arrangement of furniture that you end up with when you move it around to make …
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Welcome to Garden Blogger's Bloom Day for December 2012. Here in my zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we have not yet had any snow so it still seems more like late fall than winter. I …
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My beautiful compost in my red wheelbarrow. It is December 12, 2012 and our thoughts turn to fertilizer, as they really should. One year ago, I looked forward to today and decided that we should …
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Helleborus niger 'Josef Lemper' I have scoured the garden literature of the 20th and 21st centuries to bring forth for the holidays some tidbits about Helleborus niger, the Christmas Rose. I …
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