About

You can find me at my other blogs,  Decorate A Garden .com and Flowergardengirl.com too.

Flowergardengirl.wordpress  is 2009 winner: Best Blog Design and Best North Carolina Blog at Blotanical.com the largest gardening forum on the internet.

My garden grows in North Carolina zone 7. I’m married and have two grown sons and a daughter-in-law. Except for a short 20 years following my husband around in the Air Force, I’ve always lived in NC. My family goes back to the mid 1600′s to this area.

I love cooking, walking, gardening, reading, and sewing.

My husband and I just recently moved to our new Craftsman home that I designed. This blog will document the building of my new gardens and showcase a few others spread throughout NC. I hope you enjoy your visit. I am currently working on my shed which I lovingly refer to as Copper Top Cottage.

A bit about my past:

You could read my sidebar and get to know me. Start with Mr. Delicious! I left home at 16. I started out in the AF but came right back to the place I couldn’t wait to leave. Funny how you return to your roots. I don’t think I’ve ever tried anything I could not do if I wasn’t too tired when I started learning.

This blog started off as a hobby but my love for people and knowledge has caused its popularity. For that I’m grateful. I’m glad you are here and if I can help you in any way. I’ll try.

So what does Flowergardengirl do exactly:

Flowergardengirl's Outdoor Autumn Arrangement

~ makes incredible outdoor container arrangements like you’ve never seen–please use the contact button if you live in the Winston Salem, NC area and you would like me to come out and give an estimate on container arrangements or planting seasonal flowers in your beds.

~offers lawn care and seeding

~ accepts a few speaking engagements about folksy places she’s lived, her past, NC, front porch stories, gardening, shooting the breeze

~ has produced a tv commercial for a local garden center which aired during prime time

~ tests plant cultivars in her garden for the upcoming season

~ maintains this website which won best blog design and best NC blog at Blotanical.com for 2009

~ provides businesses, schools, and greeting card companies with photos for their needs

~ works on her little shed ‘Copper Top Cottage’ where she will make birdhouses and handmade items

~ is developing a clothing line for the Flowergardengirl name.

~ provides school children with help when looking for royalty free pictures for their projects ( please email me using the form above)

My passion~~~ helping people!

15 Comments to “About”

    
  1. Jen
    May 26, 2010 at 8:01 am

    WOW! Love your blog. I need weeks to get through all of it but love what little I’ve seen. I’m a novice gardener who moved from Arizona to Costa Rica. I stumbled upon your blog trying to identify a caterpillar dining on my fennel. 8) Anyway, I’m glad I found you and hope if you’re ever in Costa Rica you’ll come and check out my ever changing gardens.

    • flowergardengirl
      May 26, 2010 at 8:17 am

      Well I’m glad you stopped by and I’ll certainly visit by the blog world. I’ve been blogging for quite some time and so I can imagine it would take while to get to the bottom of things here at my place. I like to post a lot. I also like folks to stop by often–so come back quick as you can.

  2. Joann
    December 18, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    I’m so glad I stumbled upon on your blog. You do great work. I would love to send you some photos of my shed. You’ll love it. You remind me of myself.

  3. Judy Lowe/Diggin' It
    November 20, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Great going! Loved the “bad boy” as well as — as always — the wonderful flower photos.
    Big hugs Judy as you are truly one of my most favorite people!

  4. Frances
    October 21, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    I love your website! I found it through Sweden. I love blogging and finding out more in the world. I have a coppertop granddaughter she is the mover and shaker in the family. Thanks for sharing such lovely pictures.

  5. christophertravels
    October 14, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    beautiful blog.
    Thank you and I’ll go back and visit yours later when I can stay longer. So interesting all your travels. I had to make sure you weren’t spam ;)

  6. Jan (ThanksFor2Day)
    October 3, 2009 at 10:56 am

    Good morning Anna, I love your ‘newest’ look! The mums are stunning…and pinks are one of my favorites. I’m not a ‘mums’ person, because they’re usually yellow/gold, rust(ish)-orange-red, or something that reminds me too much of autumn, and I guess I’m not really an autumn person. Which of course is a shame because it is now autumn. I’m still in denial and want to keep all of my spring/summer colors. They brighten me up, and the fall colors bring me down. I’m not sure why. Anyway, I suppose you ‘might’ change your colors as time goes by, to fall(ish) or winter(ish)…and that’s ok! I’ll still stop by;-) You can really do so much with your wordpress blog…much more than I can do with blogger. If I want to make all of those separate pages I almost need to make up a new blog and then link to it from my first blog. That’s what I did for ‘awards’ I’ve received. It works well that way…but probably not as well as wordpress. Mine isn’t anywhere near as organized as yours, and I’m only doing my blog to document my own garden and rarely feature other people on it. You are a garden writer and you do fab work girl! Congrats on all of your awards with Blotanical!

  7. KAARINA
    September 29, 2009 at 12:04 am

    Wow Anna… all I can say is your blog is so beautiful! I love the pictures- especially of the ones from GWA, as it is like a scrapbook of my experience there. There is so much to read about and explore on your blog it’s going to take me a hundred years!

    xo kaarina
    Aww, So glad you came by! Took me awhile to figure out who fig was ;) . Didn’t realize it was you at first. You are precious and it was fun sitting at the table with the two of you. I’m enjoying ‘Dig the Dirt’ site so far. So as the kinks are worked out—and you are ready for your big debut—I’ll feature the site. Just let me know. Big hugs!

  8. Ginger
    August 28, 2009 at 7:58 am

    I just got finished looking at all the beautiful pictures of the Latimer House. What a fantastic job you have done! Can I say thanks on behalf of Wilmington? You really do us proud, girl. And I LOVE your new look here. What Theme are you using? I like the way your photos look very much.
    Hi Ginger and good to see you here! Yes, I love Wilmington. Do you know the Jewel family who moved the old house(it was the talk of the town for awhile)–it’s on my sidebar under 154 yr old house moved. They have promised to take us treasure hunting next time we come that way. Do you go treasure hunting.

    I’m using INove by MG12. I have tweaked it a bit with new colors and my own header. Thanks!

  9. Judy
    August 27, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Anna,
    I just discovered your web site the other day. I LOVE everything about it!***Your blog is one of my favorites!
    -I live across the country in a small town in Utah. (Vernal Ut.) -Thank you for the creative photos. You certainly inspire me.
    I am so glad you did! Welcome and thank you so much for being a fan. You never know what you are going get at my blog—cause it all comes tumbling out my mouth and right down on the keyboard. MrD just turns his head and goes on his way just like a good husband should.

    I’ve been to Utah. We say Youtawh. Beautiful state–big and so different than my NC.

  10. Cathy
    April 6, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    You are a great writer, only if I could that talent. Are you going to come to the spring fling this year? according to my mom who is on the committee (since it’s being held in Chicago) you might have seen her blog -Sweet Home and Garden Chicago, well I never attended the spring fling before but it sounds like a lot of fun.
    I will be helping her (Carolyn Gail) at her house -she is hosting a small segment of the spring fling, hope to see you there! if not, you will be missed!

  11. Mary Sharpe
    March 13, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    I came to this page for the same reason as Jan . . . !

    As for the same person doing kinds of things with different blogs . . . and coming up with new ideas as one goes along . . . Anna, you may like my new blog, HUGH AND CAMELLIA which is an offshoot from ESTHER IN THE GARDEN – though very different.

    Best wishes in all your endeavours.

    Mary Sharpe (et al.!)
    Hi Mary and good to see you. I’ll go check out your blog. I don’t think I’ve changed really—just gotten more experienced at blogging.

  12. Jan(ThanksFor2Day)
    February 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    I’m lost when I come here now, Anna! It’s a lovely site, and it’s clear you’ve changed your focus to a different’ segment of society…but, are you still keeping a ‘blog-blog’ or is it this one? It seems so different than before.
    I don’t know Jan. I feel like I write some things that need to be stored under a rock and others might be rather entertaining. But I do write whatever is on my heart. I’ve been blogging since December of 07 I think. I started about the same time blotanical.com got going. You grow with your blog. You certainly figure out what people avoid and what they want to see more of. I also confirmed the fact I’m a story teller. I know the history behind most of what I’m writing about. It’s like I was raised by NC historians.

    They were two women who wanted to make sure that nothing about our family was ever forgotten. As I write about front porches, warm steamy summers, and other things as such—-the pieces of the story weave their way to the front of my memories. I never start out knowing what I’m going to say. I just let it happen.

    So I don’t think I’ve changed but I am allowing you to see a side of me that you had a hint was there but now you know. I’ve always loved the South and now I’m showing you why. I’m glad you like it. I do keep several other blogs. I keep a genealogy blog with resources about our family history and I jot down snippets of my brain I want to go back and explore. That happens to me a lot. I have another blog where I write stories but have not published many of them yet. Some I’ve sent off to see if they could become a book or such which is probably far fetch but we’ll see. I have the blog that preceded this one which is inactive but stores a few flower pictures that people have linked to. I don’t want to break their links.

    I started a blog at blogger about Copper Top Cottage and then changed my mind about keeping it. Which leads me to ……………..
    There is a blog I’m building that will have loads of pictures on special things about Copper Top Cottage and lots of surprises. It will probably take me another year to get it where I want it. I purchased its domain name but will have wordpress be my host. You’ll get to see my container arrangements there. You know, the ones I’m doing with the china.

    So I guess this blog takes a lot of twist and turns and I never know in what direction. I’ll always keep this blog because of that fact. I can be myself here. I’m glad you like this side of me. I think you are terrific and have amazing photos on your site. I always love the music and often leave it playing in the background. You are kind and very honest. I love honesty in people. Let’s keep blogging and writing about what we love and people will see that no matter if we are good one day and awful the next. That’s why it is so important to get to know a blogger. One visit to their site can not possibly tell you who they are.

    Thank you for asking!

  13. Ginger
    January 12, 2009 at 7:46 am

    Anna,
    You have done a fabulous job on your pictures and info about Wilmington, NC, my hometown. I am so glad I found you!
    You are so welcome and I will answer your email later today. Thank you for dropping by. I have an article I’m just working on about the Latimer House. I may post it today just for you.