Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
At our last stop of the Seattle Fling, Dragonfly Farms Nursery, in Kingston, Washington "where abnormality is the normality", all of us were treated to an wonderful reception hosted by Proven Winners …
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A sign should have flashed above me to warn me that I was about to fall into a rabbit hole when I found this book at a local antique mall. Pay Dirt by J. I. Rodale, copyright 1945. Forward by …
Bleeding heart... a sweet, romantic, old-fashioned flower. For many gardeners, this may have been one of the first flowers that they learned the botanical name for. Dicentra spectabilis. An …
Before I become too engrossed in spring gardening activities, (if it is possible to become too engrossed in gardening, and I don't think it is) may I present one more treasure that I brought up from …
And I quote from Garden-Making: Suggestions for the Utilization of Home Grounds by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898), “Persons who follow the entertaining writings of Mr. A. B. Tarryer (a pseudonym for a …
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This is not the time, place, or season for rabbit holes, for diving deep into old, often long forgotten, gardening books from a century ago. It is not. The days are getting longer and warmer, and …
