Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Having found three of the five secrets to achieving happiness in your garden, I was on “high alert” for signs of the fourth secret. As I walked around the garden each day, I found myself stopping to …
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I couldn’t believe I had been so careless, so cavalier, about one of my old hoes! Normally, I don’t try to use the older hoes for any actual hoeing, especially those with their original wood handles, …
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One early spring day a few years ago, I was sitting in my favorite spot by the window lazily browsing through some very old issues of Horticulture magazine. I came to own these magazines when someone …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for January 2010! Like an advance scout, this little snowdrop has sent up one shoot to see if it is safe to bloom and send for the other spring flowers. It’s …
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One fall day, when the sky was quite blue and half the leaves were still on the trees and half were on the ground, I went out to the garden with rake in hand. I wasn’t planning to do a lot of raking, …
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I have discovered the five secrets to achieving happiness in your garden. One day last spring, I found a key and used it to unlock the door to a long-ago abandoned garden shed. As I opened the door, …
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