Author Archives: Carol Bishop Miller

The Gardener

April 14, 2008 | Carol Bishop Miller | 0

My notion of the perfect flower garden was formed early in life. I took it directly from a fanciful illustration of an English cottage garden in my nursery-rhyme book. I recall being enchanted by the towering spires of blue blooms—probably delphiniums, but possibly ladybells—before which Mistress Mary flounced contrarily down her garden path…

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Field Notes 31

May 1, 2007 | Carol Bishop Miller | 0

WINTER FLOWERS always come as a special delight—all the more so if they happen to be fragrant. Luckily, we in the South can grow a number of winter-blooming shrubs renowned for their fragrance.

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Southeast: Michael Dirr

May 1, 2007 | Carol Bishop Miller | 1

Michael Dirr is one of those rare, driven individuals who make the rest of us look like we’re mired in Jell-O.

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Inside the Center for Plant Conservation

May 1, 2007 | Carol Bishop Miller | 0

A look at the Center for Plant Conservation, an organization that works to save endangered plants.

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Field Notes: Honeybee Plight

July 18, 2001 | Carol Bishop Miller | 0

The honeybee is in trouble. I first began to suspect this one sunny May afternoon in 1996, when my husband and I were accompanying friends on a picnic on a farm in south-central Tennessee.

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Adventurous Addictions: A Collector’s Garden

June 18, 2001 | Carol Bishop Miller | 0

It is only upon close inspection of the broad, curving borders embracing the house and front and rear lawns that one appreciates what a vast assortment of plants they contain and realizes that, however tastefully subdued the surroundings, this is, nevertheless, the domain of an adventurous — make that obsessive — plant addict . . .

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