Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
I am pleased to announce that I have just published the story of the Christmas Cottontail with illustrations by my nephew. The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages (Gardenangelist …
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Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for November 2018. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I have a vague recollection of fall which seemed to arrive and depart in a matter …
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I've finished putting a lovely layer of chopped up leaves and grass on my vegetable garden beds. Now the magic can begin. The magic of rotting. Of composting. Billions, maybe zillions, …
Signs of the end of the fall season... Leaves on the ground instead of on the trees. Oh, and all different colors, too. Though the changing of leaf color was late, it is as brilliant a fall as I can …
There is something about fall that makes me fall for gardening all over again. Some of my best gardening memories are from when I was a kid hanging out in the garden in the fall. Admittedly most of …
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Every year, for the past seven or eight years, I've been planting Crocus corms and glory-of-the-snow bulbs in my back lawn. This year, I planted 1,000 crocus corms, Crocus tommasinianus and another …
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