Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
You won’t find a definition for hortotropism in a dictionary, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In fact, if you are a gardener and more than once you’ve struck up a conversation with a gardener …
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When a gardener visits the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, she finds wildflowers blooming including this cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis. And she wishes she had gotten some seeds for these …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for September 2009.Now that it is mid September, I'm starting to hear the tiny little whispers of Fall, which wants to make the garden its own.It starts with a …
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Raise your hand if you have at least one plant in your garden with roots in garden blogging.In my own garden, I recently purchased and planted three perennials that I would not have found out about if …
For someone who is known to be a little bit of a stickler when it comes to staking my tomatoes, I am quite lax when it comes to staking or providing support for other plants in the garden.In fact, the …
Hortense Hoelove provides advice to the plant-lorn amongst us, those who are struggling with their plant and garden relationships.Dear Hortense,Do you ever push the zone limit? If so, ever have luck …
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