Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for January 2009.Here at May Dreams Gardens, snow and very cold temperatures in the teens and single digits ruled out the last hope for finding even a tiny frozen …
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Perpetuating the myth that northern gardeners are just frittering away these winter days and nights reading seed catalogs and gardening books, I’ve been looking through the almanac, in particular The …
A memorable weekend deserves a memorable thought.And I’ve thought of a thought to use on my blog that probably shouldn’t be written, but I’m about to post it anyway.It’s like having a plant you know …
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January 10th and winter continues. We are still about 9 weeks away from being able to sow any seeds in the garden.But this has not kept me from getting six packets of seeds from Botancial Interests …
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The fourth and final phase of winter gardening will be upon us before we know it, if we can just hang on.If you are not familiar with these four phases of winter gardening for us northern gardeners, a …
A friend of mine, who knows not a whit about gardening, often likes to test my knowledge of plants by pointing at a tree or shrub or flower and asking “What’s that?”Then I fire back with the botanical …
