Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, This past week we got to experience something that hasn’t happened around here in years. Years, I tell you. Unfortunately that something was …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for August 2010. I wrote in 2009 that August is what separates the real gardeners from the wanna-be gardeners. It’s hot and dry and who wants to be out there …
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Here we are, on the eve of another Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. I'll head out in a bit to see what is blooming in my garden, thinking about Elizabeth Lawrence, and her quote that inspired bloom day, …
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As I lean over the row of marigolds just beginning to bloom, I remember my Dad’s garden. I remember summer days that seemed to go on forever, and the end of that forever when school started with yet …
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Apparently, I am growing some odd, obscure vegetables, like okra. Five of the first five co-workers I asked could not identify the okra I brought in to work for another co-worker who specifically …
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Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, They have returned! No more peaceful coexistence. No more sitting back and thinking that we have some kind of truce worked out. How could I …
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