Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Dear Dr. Hortfreud, I need your help! I found a yellowed newspaper clipping stuck in the pages of an old gardening book I bought last week, and it has sent me straight down a rabbit hole where the …
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Carol, I have time for just the briefest note to follow up your request for more information about the Green Bandana Garden Club. Did you ever think to check in that pile of old gardening …
Dear Hortense, Greetings on a fine summer's morning! I very much appreciated how quickly you responded to my letter about the Green Bandana Garden Club. Somehow, I knew you would know something …
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2011! Here in my USDA hardiness zone 5b garden, the coneflowers, Echinacea purpurea, are creating a swath of bloom that will carry that section of the …
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A sign should have flashed above me to warn me that I was about to fall into a rabbit hole when I found this book at a local antique mall. Pay Dirt by J. I. Rodale, copyright 1945. Forward by …
Over the past two days, I’ve observed something several times which has led me to develop a hypothesis. Then I went looking on the Internet for how to test my hypothesis and ran into all kinds of …
