Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
This giant shrub can barely hold up its branches under the weight of the ginormous flowers that are its lot to bear.Just look at it, this Snowball Bush, Viburnum opulus ‘Sterile’. Look at those lower …
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Have you ever experienced a spring freeze at a garden center?Everything is set. It’s spring and the garden centers are stocked with hanging baskets, flats of annuals, and rows of trees and shrubs and …
Perhaps in a few years we will look back on this spring of 2008 and declare that it was one of the best we've ever seen.Though it is early, all indications are that every blooming tree, shrub and …
Do you know what creeps me out in a garden?Faces.Faces molded into the sides of containers. Faces in stepping stones. Faces attached to heads that just sit in the garden, sans bodies. Faces attached …
New spring blooms are showing up in my garden as fast as rabbits appear when I uncover the lettuce bed in the vegetable patch.This unnamed Allium greets visitors right before they step up onto the …
Hoes. They seem like such simple, basic tools, some with designs not changed for eons, others newly fashioned, but yet still simple.But even simple hoes can teach us lessons about gardening, and about …
