Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
I'm still plowing through the pages of The Flower Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Gardener by Ida D. Bennett (1910) and like a gardener who has stumbled across something while hoeing and stops to see …
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I've been continuing to read bits and pieces of The Flower Garden by Ida D. Bennett, published in 1910. After I posted Bennett's seed buying advice, the genealogy detective gardener, Annie in Austin, …
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Gather round. The fire is slowing burning down, the last embers fading, leaving just enough light for me to make out the writing in an old gardening book, The Flower Garden – A Manual for the Amateur …
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With all the extra entertaining during the holidays, it is possible that you might actually have friends or relatives visit you who previously have shown no interest in gardening. Whatever will you …
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I was one of the last in line to have my copy of Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy signed by none other than Rosalind Creasy a few weeks ago on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. She had just given a …
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Someone asked me if I would be getting rid of my Stapelia since it has now bloomed, and I finally got to smell the flower to prove to myself that it really does smell like dead, rotting meat. Oh, …
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