Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for January 2011! Here in central Indiana, my USDA hardiness zone 5 garden is snow-covered and cold. I made a half-hearted attempt to look outside for …
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I bought “The Flower Garden” by Ida D. Bennett on impulse from a bookseller who had set up shop for the weekend at the local mall. It was one of three old gardening books I bought that day, nearly …
I'm still thinking about books by Ida D. Bennett. In addition to The Flower Garden (1903, 1910), she also wrote a book called The Vegetable Garden (1909). Even though I don't own this particular …
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Dear Carol, How is your winter going so far? I hope you had a restful holiday and that in between working and whatever else it is you do to wile away the hours of winter, you are finding some time to …
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They’re here. The squirrels. They’re here. I saw them a few weeks ago scampering across the edge of the roof and decided to ignore them. I choose not to recall my brother’s stories of squirrels …
I'm still plowing through the pages of The Flower Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Gardener by Ida D. Bennett (1910) and like a gardener who has stumbled across something while hoeing and stops to see …
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