Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
I find it very confusing to be in a garden where plants are blooming everywhere you look and there is no place to rest your eyes without seeing something else that screams out to be seen or if you do …
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Diervilla lonicera Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, In 48 hours, give or take, August will be over and it is on to September. Here in Indianapolis, we will remember this as a …
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Knock, knock. Who’s there? Solenostemon scutellarioides. Solenostemon scutellarioides who? Solenostemon scutellarioides ‘Crimson Gold’ No joke, those crazy taxonomists renamed the common coleus a …
It’s late August and our thoughts turn to buying bulbs to plant this fall for spring flowers next year. With the garden design in progress, an overall busy summer, and a garden so dry that it seems …
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“May all your weeds be wildflowers” is a charming sentiment. I hope this is true in my garden. I hope that the weeds that grow and bloom there are pretty enough for someone to say “how lovely” …
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, I am not pleased to report that we are about to break a weather record that was set back in 1897. That was the year they had the driest August …
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