Nothing shows off the color amber like honey. The Clemmons Farmer’s Market is pleased to have the Milk and Honey Farm with us every Monday evening from 4pm to 7pm at the Jerry Long Family YMCA on Peace Haven. Eating local honey can help build your resistance to pollen allergies. I’m adding this post to [...]

The Clemmons Farmer’s Market opened on Wednesday August 18th but that’s not the day it started. In 1995, I became Flowergardengirl and she was learning all about the online world of gardening. It wasn’t until February 2008 that Anna started this blog. All along the way she gathered friends and cohorts who loved gardening, decorating, [...]

Happy Summer everyone with love from Flowergardengirl. Isn’t the dried ‘Incrediball’ hydrangea bloom spectacular! Oh it took knowing just when to dry it to get this affect. Trial and error on my part but this hydrangea is pretty no matter when you choose to let it dry. I picked this one two weeks ago. It’s [...]

I’m drying at least one bouquet from each of my hydrangeas. Once they have opened fully you can cut them from the shrub and place them in a vase to dry. I use them throughout the summer for dried arrangements and have even spray painted a few to enhance the color if I was going [...]

A fabulous white for the garden and will supply superb height is this ‘White Chiffon’ Rose of Sharon. In it’s 3rd season in my garden, she is loaded with huge white blooms. She is such a frilly lady who has kept her cool in this blazing hot summer on the NC land. There is a [...]

If you go tip toeing through my garden, ‘Miss Ruby’ buddleia will grab your attention. She’s working hard right now and providing lots of activity. Trying to pass the agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ sends an uproar of bee and butterfly activity. It’s all happening in the gardens of Flowergardengirl. My back beds. Flowergardengirl is also at [...]

Everything about this picture is cool. The orange tail spots of the butterfly match the pollen tipped edges of the cleome which match the ‘Mexican Sunflower’. What is not to like about that?

I’m growing the 2010 All American Rose ‘Easy Does It’ and that is accurate. It is easy and does it all summer long. This is the third blooming and it has resisted pest and disease. It’s been so hot and humid.  Notice the leaves of deep green and perfect glossiness. Notice how the rose ages [...]

Jack the bean stalk climber would not be interested in Ricinus communis but I am. I’ve got a serious chipmunk and vole problem and they do not like the roots of the Castor Bean plant. Castor Oil comes from the Castor Bean plant but so does ricin one of the strongest poisons on earth. In [...]

The Female Eastern Swallowtails  were numerous in my gardens today.  And you might like to see my Front Porch Makeover at my Decorate A Garden.com site. 

Coleus Versa™ Crimson Gold by Ball Hort has stolen my heart. I’m not usually a coleus person but have changed my mind with the new sun/shade varieties that have been out a few years.  I’m growing it in containers and in the ground. It has tolerated the high heat and humidity of this NC zone [...]