As you know, I’m building a new blog. Would you like to know the name? I don’t want you to feel left out. It’s called, — Decorate A Garden. I bought the url a long time ago knowing that Copper Top Cottage was going to be a huge part of that. So don’t any of [...]

Flowergardengirl’s blog will change. I own two other urls and would really like a more professional look and attitude for my blog. I will probably come back on a MacBook Pro cause I can do more with the design and photo albums. But I need to devote full time to it for a couple of [...]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  Hope you enjoy your day gathered around the table with family and friends.

As I moved among the thousands of shoeboxes today, only one thought traveled through my mind. What would that little girl or boy see in his or her box that might bring them joy? Oh please let our boxes bring them joy. And that is the kind of place Operation Christmas Child really is—It’s a [...]

I will stop anywhere and ask anyone for a picture. So when this bad boy was parked on the side of the road I yelled for Mr D to come to a screeching halt. We were in Mennonite country where the colors are quiet and subdued and very respectful. We were even acting well behaved. [...]

Will the North Carolina Outer Banks ever be the same?? http://www.islandfreepress.org/2009Archives/11.17.2009-STORMUPDATEDOneLaneOfHighway12OpensToAllTraffic.html Add to: Facebook | Digg | Del.icio.us | Stumbleupon | Reddit | Blinklist | Twitter | Technorati | Yahoo Buzz | Newsvine

one of my most fav pics ever and you have seen it a gazllion times. when you look at a gardeners photo album, it is like looking at baby pics you see the same ones over and over. Add to: Facebook | Digg | Del.icio.us | Stumbleupon | Reddit | Blinklist | Twitter | Technorati [...]

The Azalea Garden Inn just up the road in Blowing Rock, North Carolina is one of my favorite places to travel. I’ve written about it many times. My son and his wife just went up this past weekend for some R&R. The grounds are meticulously maintained and it’s a photographers paradise. These photos were taken [...]

trying to break in my back door. Clanking, rattling, thuds, spitting, hissing, Forgot I was boiling eggs and nearly ran the pot dry. Not my house but I did take the picture. It’s from my Wilmington NC collection as are most of cool old houses on my site.

‘Miss Ruby’ is my new favorite 2010 Proven Winners Color Choice shrub this week. I’m trialing it in my garden and it hasn’t stopped blooming since May. The blooms have been a deep magenta pink that makes me giddy every time I look at it which matches how I’m feeling tonight. Below is a stock [...]

A beautiful spectacular autumn day~~ big hugs and slobbery kisses from~~ Flowergardengirl

As you see on this government building in Wilmington, North Carolina~~~there are two state flags, that of the United States of America and North Carolina. You can see that the porch ceiling has been properly painted Haint blue which is traditional and scares the ghosts or spirits away. Wouldn’t be a Southern porch without Haint [...]

Jo called on a warm afternoon and ask me what kind of  weather South Dakota had in December. I said freezing cold and no way your little almost freezing self could survive. Fast forward several months later and here sits several thousand boxes filled with even more shoeboxes sitting on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in [...]

Pictures from this weekend showing the cart is filled with fun treasures for the little kid’s boxes for our Garden Blogger’s Operation Christmas Child.<—–Follow the link and you can sign up like many of your friends who are listed on the link and on my sidebar under the widget for Garden Bloggers Operation Christmas Child ———> (so [...]

Incredible is all you can say about ‘Snow Princess’ Lobularia hybrid sweet alyssum. I grew it in containers and in the ground this summer and watching the never ending display of fluffy white blooms was absolutely satisfying. I thought you might like to see the photos from the Proven Winners site. Please enjoy! You’ve all seen [...]

update July 24th—after trying this plant in my garden—it did not make it. It shriveled up and died. I do take excellent care of my flowers so this had a fair chance as my other petunias are doing grandly. I can not in good faith recommend this plant. I also received emails from several folks [...]

When Flowergardengirl was considering the colors for Copper Top Cottage she thought of her favorite colors of fall and paired them~~~with ~~ this of all things– ~~ a rotating egg~~The above image actually spins on her computer and was created in Gimp using photos from the scenes from her back yard but WordPress will not [...]