Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Rue Anemone, Thalictrum thalictroides My tiny woodland wildflower garden is outshining the rest of the garden with sweet little blooms this spring. "They survived", chant the garden fairies and …
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Jeffersonia diphylla, Will my spring wildflowers emerge earlier than normal, following the lead of the Iris histrioides 'Katharine Hodgkin' now blooming four to five weeks early in my …
Boltonia, a perennial flower native to the Eastern United States, grows in my garden in two places. In the August Dreams Garden border, a named variety of Boltonia, Boltonia asteroides 'Snowbank' …
How to tame a wildflower. You can give it fancy leaves... Heliopsis helianthoides 'Loraine Sunshine' You can give it double flowers... Heliopsis helianthoides '(Variety Name Forgotten*)' You …
Please include more wildflowers and native plants in your garden. Chosen well, these plants, more so than many others, seem to survive, if not thrive, in a wider range of weather extremes. In my own …
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Court is now in session! Ladies and gentleman of the jury of the Superior Court of Gardening Crimes, have you reached a verdict? Your honor, we have! We find this flower, Hemerocallis fulva, …
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