Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
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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This is NOT a camellia, it is a rose. I never cared about Camellias until I started reading Eudora Welty's gardening letters (Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949, …
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