Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
A new season of gardening is upon us. Fall. And with fall comes another secret to achieving happiness in your garden. This secret is one that people have been told time and again, but …
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Many people think or assume or suppose that I would like to have one of those fairy gardens that are filled up with plastic garden fairies. Truly, I would not like such a thing. I would never insult …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for September 2012. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6b garden, we are recovering from the Drought of '12, having been blessed with quite a bit of rain in …
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Dear Hortense Hoelove, What is wrong with my lily plant? It has these brownish-black "things" growing in the leaf axils. Is it a disease? Is it large insect frass? What should I do? What spray …
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Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we would like to comment on what Carol calls "garden lightly tended". Truly, we are garden fairies and we thought it was a lovely post but we …
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I am reminded that a garden lightly tended will yield some lovely surprises, like this little field of columbine seedlings on the edge of Plopper's Field. I crawled around and through Plopper's Field …
