Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Are you ready, Carol? Ready for what, Dr. Hortfreud? Ready to make the biggest change of all in your garden. Look at the size of those new beds. Those are big, aren’t they, Dr. Hortfreud? The …
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You might be a gardening geek on a rainy day if… You contemplate buying one of those temporary shelters, the kind with the tent roof but no sides, to set up in strategic locations in the garden so …
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I spent yesterday outside gardening in the garden, and only took one picture showing Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokova’ with bits of Snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum, growing with it. The …
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Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, Woo hoo! I’m on vacation for a week to work in my garden. “Having a great time, wish you were here.” Then you could help me weed and mulch and …
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I was lured out into the cold, sunny garden early this morning by Baptisia australis, selected as the 2010 Perennial Plant of the Year™ by the Perennial Plant Association. Baptisia australis 'Purple …
Once upon a time, Jo Ellen, the Hoosier Gardener, came to see my garden and asked me why I had “caged” my Clematis integrifolia ‘Alba’. She suggested I free it and let it just grow up and around the …
