Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
August Dreams Garden in mid-June One of the best decisions I made three years ago when I worked with a garden designer to lay out the garden borders was to plant one border with plants that bloom …
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The best thing I ever did for my garden was to hire a garden designer to plan out the overall design. The worst thing I did was wait 13 years from the time I moved to this property until I hired the …
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When the garden designer laid out the gardens a few springs ago, she described the bed around the locust tree as a "groundcover quilt". What I recall from her description is that it should be a …
I accomplished another goal for the garden redesign project today when I purchased some seven colorful tiger tails and three long leaves from Girly Steel to set up in the high summer garden called …
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Come walk with me down Ridgewood Avenue. Enter in the shade and exit in the sun by the Vegetable Garden Cathedral. Walk slowly now. On the left is August Dreams Garden which will be in peak bloom …
Verdant, adjective: (of countryside) Green with grass or other rich vegetation. Of the bright green color of lush grass. A few pictures of verdant views of the garden in spring, taken a few …
