Posted in Crafts, Favorite Plants, Greensboro Gardens, Wedding Ideas, Weddings, tagged Greensboro, NC, Helleborus, plants, affordable ideas, Diana Gardner-Williams, evergreens, North Carolina, Greensboro Gardens, centerpieces, holiday crafts, holiday ideas, Weddings, wedding flowers, Divine Weddings and Beyond, Diana Digs Dirt, piedmont triad on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cut your own holiday centerpieces for your dining room tables. They are free and unique adding colorful warmth to the festivities. Select a container and insert floral foam. You will want some foam exposed for a more grandiose flower display.
Once you have cut the foam to the desired size, gather evergreen foliage, twigs, berries, and [...]
Posted in Favorite Plants, Greensboro Gardens, Wedding Ideas, tagged annuals, autumn, autumn cherry tree, centerpieces, Diana Digs Dirt, Diana Gardner-Williams, Greensboro, Greensboro Gardens, knock out roses, landscape companies, piedmont triad, White Flowers on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you are having guests over for the Thanksgiving holiday or wedding photographs taken at your home, make sure your landscape is bursting with color.
You will notice I have many favorite plants, but this tree really is one of them! The Autumn Cherry Tree. If a plant blooms more than one season, it is a [...]
Posted in Crafts, Events, Favorite Plants, tagged Diana Digs Dirt, Diana Gardner-Williams, dried flowers, Greensboro, landscaping companies, North Carolina, piedmont triad on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jennifer Nichols of Clapps Nursing Center in Pleasant Garden was looking for volunteers to head up a few activities for the residents. So we made a date and it was one of the best dates I’ve had in a long time.
The prior month I collected some of my favorite foliage from maple, sassafras, and fig trees, rose [...]
Posted in Favorite Plants, Wedding Ideas, Weddings, tagged bridal parties, Divine Weddings and Beyond, garden weddings, greenery, Landscape Design Ideas, landscaping companies, outdoor entertaining, outdoor parties, outdoor weddings, Pergolas, photogenic landscape, rehearsal dinners, wedding budget, wedding decorations, wedding flowers, Wedding Ideas, Weddings on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weddings, rehearsal dinners and outdoor bridal parties are all events needing decorations reflecting the essence of the wedding. This can be done with color, texture, flowers, hobby or another unique element of the wedding while using fresh greenery.
Fresh greenery is an affordable way to incorporate earthy elements and dress up the landscape, while having fun. [...]
Posted in Favorite Plants, Greensboro Gardens, Landscape Design Ideas, tagged Greensboro, Kleim's hardy gardenia, Landscape Design Ideas, landscape plants, landscaping companies, North Carolina, specimen tree, yoshino cherry tree on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The average homeowner may have questions about the best placement of plant materials. Not only is sun or shade a factor, so is the function of the plant. Let your landscape work for you and install plants where they will provide a function as well as aesthetics.
Specimen plants like Yoshino Cherry Trees can stand alone in the [...]
Posted in Events, Favorite Plants, Landscape Design Ideas, tagged Alzheimer Association, drought tolerate plants, Greensboro, groundcover, perennial, shade gardens on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Greensboro’s downtown City Park was the location for the Memory Walk for the Alzheimer’s Association. The turn out was fabulous.
The weather was perfect and people were sporting their purple t-shirts for the 1 mile Memory Walk.
The mist from the water feature was also popular for cooling off.
Snacks and refreshments were provided too.
We were invited by [...]
Posted in Favorite Plants, Greensboro Gardens, tagged butterflies, drought tolerate plants, Greensboro Gardens, low maintenance plants, North Carolina Zoo, perennial on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While strolling through the North Carolina Zoo, take note of all of the plants appealing to you. Most likely these types of flora are low maintenance and can be grown in your area or zone with little effort. All of the plant material suggested here should be installed in the backyards or rear gardens. These [...]
Posted in Favorite Plants, Greensboro Gardens, Greensboro Water Fountains, Landscape Design Ideas, tagged annuals, Greensboro, Landscape Design Ideas, NC, reseeding plants, transplanting, vines on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was very happy to see 5 Goldenrain trees sprouting up from where one was removed because of bad health. I now have 5 healthy trees to transplant to other areas of my garden. This tree is one of a kind in bloom.
Crape myrtle trees are another plant dropping seeds to sprout others to transplant.
There [...]
Posted in Favorite Plants, Greensboro Gardens, Greensboro Water Fountains, Landscape Design Ideas, tagged centerpieces, cottage gardens, Crafts, dried flowers, flower bouquets, Greensboro, informal landscape plants, Landscape Design Ideas, pressed flowers, purple perennials, zone 7 on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Russian Sage has many wonderful properties appealing to those with not such a green thumb.
This deciduous perennial is drought tolerate and performs great in average soil providing weeks of airy purple blooms in the summer months.
Russian Sage or the botanical name-Perovskia atriplicifolia is not for formal gardens, mailbox plantings or alongside walkways. This perennial is a [...]
Posted in Favorite Plants, Greensboro Gardens, Greensboro Water Fountains, Landscape Design Ideas, tagged daffoldils, dried flowers, landscape companies, Landscape Design Ideas, moonlight gardens, oakleaf hydrangeas, Pergolas, shade gardens, White Flowers, white perennials on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wouldn’t it be nice to come home from work and meander to the swing in your shade garden bursting with illuminating white blooms. The color white is highly visible during dust so do not ignore this fantastic plant property. Not only do white flowers brighten up a shady spot, so will the foliage of certain plants [...]
