Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Congratultions, Clematis 'Rooguchi' for being brave enough to bloom after I so neglected you.I take it that these two beautiful blooms are a thank you gift to me for finally getting rid of the weeds …
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Congratulations, Heliopsis helianthoides 'Lorraine Sunshine', you are the flower of the day, of the week, of the side border where you live.You shine above all others right now, at three feet tall and …
I am guilty of buying “one of” plants. Then I plant these “one of” plants and hope that they will be seen and admired for their individual beauty. Sometimes these “one of” plants get lost in the …
How do you know when you've seen enough gardens for one day?When you are standing in a beautiful Chicago garden, a Zone 5a garden which is very close to your own Zone 5b garden, and you ask no one in …
Ask not for whom the flower blooms, the flower blooms for thee, the gardener.Oh, how we wish that were true! Then we could command flowers to bloom whenever it pleased us for them to bloom. But we …
At some point in a gardener’s education, whether through book-learnin’ or in the school-of-hard-clay-soil-and-dead-plants, a gardener will learn or be told that what they call “geraniums” are not the …
