Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
You might be a gardening geek on the Fourth of July if…1. When you go to buy fireworks, you are naturally inclined to get those with names like Blue Palm, Morning Glories, or anything that ends in …
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If someone sat down and designed Hydrangeas on purpose, we would say they had come up with a product that is just too confusing. The public won't buy it.But people do buy them, and then they have …
The daily "squash watch" has begun here at May Dreams Gardens.Every morning and every evening, I go out to the garden and check on the summer squash to see if there is one ready to harvest.I am …
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The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do …
My garden is full of leaves right now, so I was delighted to get an email from Emma from The Nice Green Leaf about June 30th being a day to post about about our big green leaves.Leaves are the …
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Not since Charles Dudley Warner wrote about purslane in his garden has there been a garden so infested with this weed as my very own vegetable garden here at May Dreams Gardens.He said they "grow as …
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