Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
In the spring, there are slivers of time when the sun is shining and the ground is dry enough to work when you just have to make time to work in the garden. I took advantage of one of those slivers of …
Continue Reading about Renovation of a Flower Bed – Completed →
When I went out to get the newspaper very early this morning, I realized that it was quite cold and the violas and pansies got their first experience of below freezing temperatures. But by mid …
Continue Reading about Renovation of a Flower Bed… And Peas Sown! →
After work, I started on the first steps to renovate this flower bed.This bed is on the north side of the house and wraps around the patio and continues across the back of the house. Way in the far …
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Here are the Hyacinths after 5 weeks. I have no explanation for why there is such variation in growth. All the bulbs came out of the same bag and were kept in the back of my refrigerator for the same …
Continue Reading about Green Thumb Sunday: Hyacinth Week 5, plus Hellebores →
Every gardener has them, or should I say, doesn’t have them any more. Those plants purchased with great excitement and eager anticipation, the “must have” plants that once enticed and entranced the …
