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I’m sending my houseplants to Club Hort for the summer

May 25, 2015 By Carol Michel 5 Comments

Not houseplants, just cut flowers from my garden I am sending my houseplants to Club Hort for the summer. Normally, they stay in the sunroom and never leave for anything. But not this year. This year almost all of them are heading to Club Hort, an exclusive all-inclusive resort, where they will enjoy the finest of immentities for most of the summer. Upon arrival at Club Hort, which is not too far from the sunroom they live in, they will receive an updated wardrobe in the form of a top … [Read more...] about I’m sending my houseplants to Club Hort for the summer

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Kokedama – Must be willing to make a little bit of a mess…

January 10, 2015 By Carol Michel 9 Comments

Kokedama with ivy I just finished cleaning up the sunroom after making my first kokedama. Kokedama is a Japanese word that translates into English as "moss balls" though all the auto-correct editors want to translate it into chokedamp. The idea is to mix a combination of peat and clay soil, generally a 70-30 ratio, so you can form the soil into a ball and it stays as a ball. Then you plant something in the ball, generally a plant that will like the same moist conditions moss likes, and cover … [Read more...] about Kokedama – Must be willing to make a little bit of a mess…

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Real gardeners grow plants indoors, too.

November 29, 2014 By Carol Michel 11 Comments

"I do not do houseplants." If you tell me that, then I know you are not a real gardener. Real gardeners also have indoor plants. Or houseplants. Or house plants. Whichever you prefer. Real gardeners do not stop gardening when the garden outdoors goes dormant.  We don't.  We can't. Even if we don't intend to have plants indoors, we somehow, somewhere, end up with plants in our houses. It just happens. If you are thinking right now, "well, I'm a real gardener and I don't have … [Read more...] about Real gardeners grow plants indoors, too.

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Obsessed gardener looking for an old variety…

July 28, 2014 By Carol Michel 3 Comments

Begonia 'Gloire de Lorraine' (American Gardening, 1900) Obsessed gardener looking for an old variety of Begonia, 'Gloire de Lorraine'. Described by Buckner Hollingsworth in Gardening on Main Street (1968) ~ "From a tight cushion of bright green foliage a great many lax stems emerged, each tipped with only two flowers, but when these fade and fall the stem lengthens and two more flowers appear. There are so many stems of so many varying lengths that the plant becomes a fountain of rose-colored … [Read more...] about Obsessed gardener looking for an old variety…

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The Optimist and The Pessimist

July 12, 2014 By Carol Michel 4 Comments

Two houseplants just got put out on the patio to spend the rest of the summer in plant rehab. We'll call one plant "Purple Leaf" and the other "Ivy".  Let's listen in as they discuss their situation.  Purple Leaf:  Oh, look! Look!  We are outside. Isn't it wonderful to see the sun like this and not through a window? Ivy:  Are you kidding me? I'm going to burn up here. It's so bright. I want to go back inside. Who's in charge here? Purple Leaf:  Relax, Ivy.  … [Read more...] about The Optimist and The Pessimist

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The Rabbit Holes of Winter

December 30, 2013 By Carol Michel 5 Comments

I've recently decided that January is one of my favorite months to think about gardening. There is time in January to relax a bit.  The holidays are over.  The winds howl and only the hardiest of souls try to garden when the ground is frozen, or nearly so. It's best to just stay indoors.  Indoors where there are gardening books, and houseplants, and seed catalogs, and warmth, and books. I'm currently watching my Lily of the Valley pips grow indoors.  I see the beginnings … [Read more...] about The Rabbit Holes of Winter

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