Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to your own private garden restaurant, Mother Nature’s Diner. You plan to order beautiful flowers to feast your eyes on, loamy soil that looks like chocolate cake mix, and the perfect amount …
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Exteme close up inspection The tower has cleared you and your gardening helicopter for landing. Are you constantly checking to see which plants need more water, less water, more sun, less sun, more …
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Ever feel like you are on the outside of the garden gate, looking in, wondering how you could ever possibly afford to have a nice garden, a healthy garden, hortus sanus? Many gardeners think they can …
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Symphyotrichum oblongifolium 'October Skies' The laws of nature can not be broken! You must learn to accept and abide by Mother Nature’s laws to achieve hortus sanus in your garden, or you will find …
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Congratulations! You’ve worked hard to get to the top, you’ve paid your dues and sown your seeds and now you are the Chief Gardening Officer of your very own garden. You are in charge. You are the …
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The wilderness on the edge of a Dallas garden. What was your garden before it was a garden? It was a wilderness. If you did nothing in your garden, the weeds, trees, bugs, grasses, animals, would …
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