Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
I never expected when I walked into the grocery store today that I would have my floral sensibilities assaulted, but here we are. I saw tulips for sale in October. I repeat. I saw tulips for …
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Of all the flowers in my garden, I feel like it is the Double Tiger Lily, Lilium lancifolium 'Flore Pleno' who does most of the talking in mid-summer. Just look at it. Doesn't it look gossipy, …
I like to read old gardening books and magazines. But the danger in reading old gardening books and magazines is that you are introduced to old varieties of flowers and vegetables and then you …
Let's force some Lily of the Valley into bloom like it's 1897. That's the year Lizzie Page Hillhouse, one of the Lost Ladies of Garden Writing, wrote her book, House Plants and How to Succeed With …
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Last week, my garden club's speaker "ghosted" us, as the kids says. We attempted to contact the person, we did online searches for the person, and we came up with nothing. A no-show. It happens. So …
Greetings of the season! Because it was in the upper 50s, lower 60s on Christmas Day—we got within one degree of the record high temperature of 64 degrees Fahrenheit set in 1893— I decided to go …
