Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Where did the practice of using ice cubes to water plants come from? Who's doing this, putting a few ice cubes in a pot of poinsettias and calling that watering? I'm not even going to do an online …
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When we gardeners pine for the warm days of spring, a poplar activity is to spruce up the inside of the house.(Pause. Can you believe I was able to use three tree names in one sentence that isn't even …
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Real, fake, real.That's the answer to yesterday's quiz about poinsettias. I should have trimmed those little frays on the edges of the petals on the fake one, but I was too lazy to do that.And what …
Many people express surprise that my potted poinsettias are not real plants. They are fakes, artificial, silk, whatever term you'd like to use, and thus have been "blooming" reliably every December …
The rescued African Violet is blooming, just two little pink flowers, but it is enough bloom that I think the plant is going to make it.If you're new to my blog, let me catch you up on this African …
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This Christmas or Thanksgiving cactus was too late for Thanksgiving, but too early for Christmas. And at the rate the blooms are fading, it won't be much for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day either. That's …
