Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Pinky Written by Pretty Everyone thinks the life of a tulip is quite simple. We get planted in the fall, hunker down all winter, then come up and bloom in the spring and soak up the sun juice to …
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Boltonia getting ready to bloom - Not weeds! There is a paradox of weeding, a statement that seems to be contradictory but is oh-so-true. The more you weed, the less you have to weed. Let that soak …
There comes a time when you must plunge into the depths of the garden border and pull the weeds. Pull the thistle rising above the rest of the flowers, catching it just as it is ready to burst into …
Weeding at top speeds approaching more than 20 weeds a minute, I speed weeded my way through a large garden area called The Shrubbery. I did not stop to choose a special tool and dig up any weeds. I …
As soon as a gardener declares an area to be a garden and plants that first plant, it is time to start weeding and removing plants that are not part of the garden plan. This is because a garden is not …
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I spent yesterday outside gardening in the garden, and only took one picture showing Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokova’ with bits of Snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum, growing with it. The …
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