Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
And the winner of the Fiskars loppers and hoe is "BooksandGarden". I've notified her by email so she can claim her prizes. Many thanks to the hostess of the virtual book party, Rebecca Sweet, …
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Guess what I'm doing this evening? I'm participating in a virtual garden book party hosted by one of the nicest people I know, Rebecca Sweet. The guest of honor at this party is her new book, …
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"Do the wildflowers speak to you--do they know you as a friend, or pass you by as an alien? Do you know their names--their language--their secrets?" I know the wildflowers know my friend Gail of Clay …
I'm getting ready to find out more about the writer Eudora Welty by reading One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place by Susan Haltom, Jane Roy Brown, and Langdon Clay (University Press of …
Not bindweed, probably morning glory "Miss Marple bent down on the terrace outside the french window and dealt with some insidious bindweed. It was only a minor victory, since beneath the surface the …
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Just some pretty flowers from before it dried up here. Earlier this summer I started reading mysteries by Agatha Christie, particularly those that feature Miss Jane Marple as the …
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