Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
On the twelfth day of June, Clematis x triternata 'Rubromarginata', scampers around and through tall sedum. I always wanted to have a little vine scamper through a garden, without looking like an …
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The clay pots are not for sale. You might be a gardening geek at a garage sale if… You go to a sale, see garden tools hanging on the wall and ask if they are for sale, even though clearly they are …
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Many gardeners have it in their gardens. They may speak often of it. They may speak emphatically of it. They are passionate regarding it. I had it in my garden, many different kinds of …
Triteliea 'Rudy'I can not tell a lie. Not with Triteleia ‘Rudy’ beginning to bloom in my garden.I’ll admit when I first saw Triteleia’s blue and white striped bloom, I did not know what it was, but …
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"Come and walk with me over here, but be quiet as you walk." With that the old woman tiptoed quietly across the vegetable garden to a large snowball bush that had been growing for years on the …
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I went out to the garden early one morning and was startled to find the old woman, whom I generally refer to as the "old woman at the door", sitting on the boulder in the vegetable garden. She had on …
