Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
(Inspired by a podcast called Lost Ladies of Lit, I've decided to write an occasional post about lost ladies of garden writing.) We begin with Kate L. Brewster, simply because her book was the …
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This is the absolute truth. I was out weeding in the garden on Saturday and discovered a morel mushroom growing near the base of... ... I just remembered a good morel mushroom hunter never …
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have not posted in a while because it is spring and we have been busy. We are garden fairies. But, recently, we saw several kids running …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for April 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we are enjoying—experiencing?—enduring?—a slow spring. Slow is good in some …
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Hello, my fellow gardeners. If you lean in close and not let others look over your shoulder, I'll share some of my bulb buying secrets with you. Secrets you need now, in the spring. …
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A week or so ago, a bird was attempting to build a nest above the light next to the back door. Since she hadn't gotten too far along, I knocked down the bits and bobs of leaves and grasses and figured …
