Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for July 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I feel like I'm in-between high summer blooms and early fall blooms. I suspect the …
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Our next Lost Lady of Garden Writing is Mrs. Francis King. She was the editor and sometimes the author behind all of the books in The Little Garden series published in the 1920s. Truth be told, …
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Garden fairies here! We are garden faires and we have discovered a new flower in the containers on the patio. It's a flower we haven't seen around here in, like, never. Immediately, though we …
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Miss Frances Edge McIlvaine is our next Lost Lady of Garden Writing. As with the other lost ladies, at first I thought there wouldn't be much to find out about Frances, or Fannie as her friends …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for June 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we've been enjoying a mostly mild spring which has caused the garden, and weeds, to …
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Continuing through the authors of The Little Garden Series of books (edited by Mrs. Francis King), we find our next Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Dorothy Giles, who wrote The Little Kitchen Garden …
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