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Alumna cultivates gardening gold

Carol Michel (BS ’81, horticulture and landscape architecture), was awarded a 2018 Media Awards Gold Medal of Achievement for Best Overall Book from GWA: The Association of Garden Communicators. Michel writes humorous and lighthearted essays about her lifelong avocation in Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life (her award-winning first book) and Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life. She blogs at maydreamsgardens.com, where she started a fun tradition with garden bloggers around the world, who post what’s blooming in their gardens on the 15th of every month.

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