Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
I read in a book by Thalassa Cruso called Making Things Grow: A Practical Guide for the Indoor Gardener that the Chinese Evergreen was a dull plant, as houseplants go, but they were coming …
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Get some houseplants, they say. It will improve the air quality in your home, they say. Well, I say, get some houseplants. Period. Because as it turns out, houseplants don't really improve the air …
This pretty orchid greeted me in the sunroom this morning. My old childhood friend and neighbor from back in the day literally plucked this from the trash at the retirement community where his mom …
The Great Responsibility is blooming! Oh, you don't know about the Great Responsibility? You aren't clinging to every word I write on this blog? Please refer back to the post on February 6th to get …
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Historians Family Members I will look back on these cold, bleak February days of 2019 as the beginning of my moss phase. (By the way, when writing "February" is it necessary to also write "cold, …
I might have crossed a line from "having a few Sansevierias" to "when and where will I buy my next Sansevieria?" Which might mean I'm becoming a "collector of plants in the genus Sansevieria." Or …
