Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
While pulling out some radishes, it occurred to me that new gardeners—really all gardeners—might find it useful to understand the language of harvesting. So with five minutes of thought, I …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for May 2021. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, if you stand still for a minute you will probably hear the collective exhaling of …
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Do your plants feel like nobody looks at them? Do they miss the sound of voices talking softly about how lovely their blooms are? Does your garden yearn for the soft footsteps of a plant-loving person …
Tucked in a little triangle of ground between the house and a little path of pavers I made to get to the hose spigot, I found some ice plants, Delosperma, blooming the other day. I know I did not …
I didn't know I needed hardy cyclamen until I went to Court's Yard and Greenhouse on Friday. The owner took me to the back greenhouse to ask me about these hardy cyclamen plants she saw and …
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we woke up on Wednesday morning, April 21, and this is what we saw. We garden fairies realized right away that this is not normal for April 21st. …
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