Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
There’s still hope if you haven’t ordered spring flowering bulbs!For all the procrastinators who ignored my advice to order spring flowering bulbs way back in July, I’m sure the mail-order companies …
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On this day of the Autumnal Equinox, which occurs at 5:18 EDT, what is the state of your vegetable garden? Choose one:(a) I’m still picking a lot of vegetables from it and it will take a hard frost to …
I’m going to be rich!While out and about at a few garden centers this past week, I found corms for Autumn Flowering Crocus, Crocus sativas.Crocus sativas is none other than the source for saffron, the …
Pansies and violas are the bookends of the outdoor gardening season. I plant them first thing in the spring and last thing in the fall.Wait, that’s not quite right…Pansies are the genesis and exodus …
Did you hear the one about the two toad lilies, Tricrytis sp., that hopped into my cart as a cruised very quickly through the big box hardware store?True story, it happened just yesterday. I was kind …
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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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