Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome, once again, to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day! I walked around the garden on this beautiful, brisk, sunny morning to see what's blooming in mid-October in my central Indiana garden. I'm …
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Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies, and today we are breathing a sigh of relief, exhaling if you will, taking a well-deserved break for a multitude of good, well-thought out, and …
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What you do when the first frost of fall arrives tells us a lot about how you garden. Here are five predictable responses to a first frost and what they tell us about you as a gardener. Do …
I recently read the greatest sentence every written about gardening. If you don't have much time, here it is. "...Gardening simply corrodes the character." If you have a bit more time, allow …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for September 2025. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we've entered that messy phase of the garden year. Plants are flopping all …
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Plantcrastination: Noun (plant-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn) The act of postponing or putting off until some future date the planting of newly purchased or acquired plants. Verb: Plantcrastinate. She …
