I grew up in the community of Old Salem, North Carolina for a good part of my childhood. A great aunt helped to raise me and she lived there. I loved being at her house. Old Salem is filled with gardens both vegetable and ornamental. I use to roam freely and talk with the tenders [...]

While composing the music for this piece, I tried to give you the viewer and listener— a feel for just who these dainty little characters really are. They are Mexican of course. They migrate from Mexico to Canada and we here in NC are right in their path. Lucky for me I grew Monkey Balls [...]

This is the repost of my podcast on the ‘Limelight’ hydrangea study. For those who didn’t see earlier post, I’m having to repost my youtube videos as they were stripped of the audios and I’m repairing them here to my blog and at youtube…sorry for the double posting. Even though I’m rebuilding a new blog, [...]

This is one of the videos that got deleted when my youtube account went haywire.  Well sweet Nan over at Gardening Gone Wild did an article on Getting Creative With Images and she was kind enough to reference my post where I talk about using the software– Gimp, a photo manipulating program. She also highlighted [...]

You can peak at Decorate A Garden today. Well I hope that link will work. But that is not the permanent URL for it. The permanent url is http://decorateagarden.com/ which is pointed at a blank wordpress blog at the moment. Flowergardengirl.org will also be pointed at Decorate A Garden. And Flowergardengirl.wordpress.com will be here just [...]

This is how I remember my Uncle Bobby. He was so awesome. I’m glad to have this picture of us and I treasure it. I’m overcome with emotion when I look at it as he passed away on the 22nd of November 2010. His birthday was 28th of November and he was born in the [...]

I can’t believe it’s December 1st and I’ve got geraniums blooming. I’ve also got gaillardia, ‘Snow Princess’ alyssum, daisies, ‘Quick Fire’ hydrangeas, pansies, verbena, ‘Diamond Frost’ euphorbia and a few others. This Saturday should take care of that as the first snowfall is expected. I ask Mr. D to surprise me with some good hot [...]