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Hello, My Name is Christine and I am a Gardener…
My first garden club presentation starts with a funny story.
Pal Jon from Floral Dimensions and I were splitting the program, and like the old TV producers that we are, we were set up early and fine tuning our Powerpoint presentations with plenty of time to kill….
I was even helping one of the hostesses rearrange chairs….before we realized this was the wrong location, wrong meeting, wrong garden club.
Good News–there are lots of gardeners and garden clubs out there. They have good programs and do many worthy projects.
Bad News–many garden clubs meet on Tuesdays in locations very close to one another. It’s easy to get confused.
Fortunately, Jon and I were able to rush around the corner and make our talks at the right house.
Thanks to the nice ladies of the Town & Country Garden Club for waiting. I really enjoyed meeting you and talking about my garden and how this blog helps me share it.
In the two years Melissa and I have been posting on You Should Grow That, we’ve had 27 thousand views, swapped ideas, solutions, seeds, and plants. We’ve also made a ton of garden friends and gained great perspective.
So share your gardens–in a talk, a blog, a comment, a conversation, an invitation, a Facebook page.
No one gardens alone. We all need ideas, inspiration, encouragement…and the free plants don’t hurt.
It was a great week for me last week–Lots of sunshine and more spring blooms like the purple lenten rose above–plus I delivered a load of vintage fabric garden journals and tool belts to two of my favorite stores in Durham. 
Garden pals and blog readers Jon and Bea saw the New Years post about writing stuff down and asked for some of my hand-crafted garden journals for their great flower and plant shop–Floral Dimensions. 
They also took some of my Rewind Design work belts, along with George Davis at another of my favorite stores–Stone Brothers and Byrd. 
I’m so flattered to be in such good company. Both Floral Dimensions and Stone Brothers sell top quality, unique products–roses that open, orchids that live (from Floral Dimensions) , grass seed that’s geared to our area, seed starting mix, seeds, bulbs and bedding plants (from Stone Brothers and Byrd).
So as we all gear up to start the spring flower spending frenzy, a reminder to shop local independent stores like these.
Not only do they sell unique items you won’t find in the big box stores, they have lots of experience, passion and give out lots of free advice–
They are part of the local garden community–and that’s very, very important to me.
Plus our choices would be so limited without them–
Here are more local suppliers I couldn’t live without. What about you? Would love to know your favs.
Campbell Road Nursery in Cary. Great perennial and annual plants, knock your socks off sales and they contribute to world of plants: Lane is co-hybridizer of the wonderful dwarf butterfly bush–Buddleia Blue Chip
Camellia Forest Nursery in Chapel Hill–World famous camellia breeders. Most of the best shrubs and small trees in my garden began life here (including my Edgeworthia Snow Cream that blog partner Melissa and her dad covet)
Big Bloomers in Sanford–More perennials than you can count, great annual selection. My little sis always travels from Ashland, Va TWICE every spring to fill up her mini van…but don’t tell her husband.
Final notes: Did any of you ever shop at Buchanan’s Nursery on Western Blvd in Raleigh? Great plants and service–staffed with lots of people from NC State. You could call them up with a question and they’d spend 20 minutes on the phone with you. Gone now–killed by big box competition. How sad.
And if you ever buy cut flowers, read the article in this months Smithsonian Magazine.http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/The-Secrets-Behind-Your-Flowers.html Like our food, we need to know where our flowers come from. Another reason to shop with someone you trust.
Finally, one more milestone for me last week, one of my Kiki’s Rewind Designs made the new issue of Green Craft Magazine. Look for it on page 133 in the spring issue.
