Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Hortense Hoelove has returned this spring to answer important gardening questions for the plant-lorn and other gardeners! Dear Hortense Hoelove, Can dirt get old? You know, that dirt in containers, …
Continue Reading about Hortense Answers Spring Gardening Questions →
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for April 2010. If someone had told me that I would have dwarf bearded iris in bloom in mid-April, I would have had to check my zip code to see if my house and …
Continue Reading about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – April 2010 →
For the past several weeks, at the end of the day, I’ve been enjoying a new book of letters, Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener edited by Emily Herring Wilson. …
Continue Reading about Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: A Book Review →
Is it my imagination, or are all the flowers of April bursting into a grand crescendo of bloom just in time for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day on the 15th? Will this be the year where even I give in …
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, I can hardly believe that a week has gone by since my last letter post. And I don’t have much to show for it, at least much to show of my …
Continue Reading about Dear Friends and Gardeners: April 12, 2010 →
The violets are blooming. Can you believe that some people consider these to be lawn weeds? I often hear callers on a local home and garden radio program ask how to kill them because they are taking …
