Hello!!

Greetings all!

I just found this website - love it! I am originally from Ohio, lived in GA for 4 years, now I'm in NC - Raleigh area.

I was a serviceable average gardener in ohio, but am starting from scratch down here in Raleigh :-)

Just wanted to say hello - I'll be reading this forum closely, got lots to learn about Carolina Gardening!

Tresa in Apex

This message was edited Sep 27, 2007 10:19 AM

Welcome from another Raleigh,NC person who knows your area well. LOL


Lavina--who lives between Garner and Clayton but has a Raleigh address.

Too bad Tresarivers, you just missed our plant trading bonanza and pot luck, whereby LavinaMae (and her husband) held us all hostage, fed us yummy food, and forced us to take all her extra plants home....Not to worry, just give Lavina some Kong Coleus, and she will be nice.....Really, its her FAVORITE....

Ugh, Oh, gotta go now, she might remember where I live......

PS Welcome to Raleigh!

LOL

I've been here in Apex two years in October, but we weren't sure whether we'd stay or not, so I'm belated getting started in the garden :-)

Tresa

Welcome to Dave's, Tresa and a belated welcome to the Carolinas! Now, get started on that garden!! ;->
Deb

Welcome Tresa from all SC gardeners. This is a great website and you will find there is always someone ready to help you. Smart bunch, also.
Since you are in the Raleigh area and love gardening, be sure and visit the gardens at Duke University. It use to be just a rose garden but I think that has changed. Can not for the life of me remember the name. It has been 15 years since I was there. They have great garden tours where you can visit the greenhouses.
B

You need some fall color, time for some confederate roses and camellias. Both of mine are getting to bloom.

Core - Matter of fact I just planted a Yuletide Camellia! Lived in Atlanta area 4 years before coming here, and kept seeing them in the older parts of the city - took awhile to find out what they were called (Finally just stopped the car one day and asked someone standing in front of their house what the heck it was! LOL)

Haven't seen Confederate Roses - will look them up on Plantfiles.

Lavina - we have friends that live out that way, they're just over the Johnston county line - pretty countryside.

BSD- I came across the Sarah P. Duke garden website awhile back. We are planning to go in a few weeks, just waiting for the trees to start really showing some fall color. Thanks for the reminder!

Nice meeting ya'll :-) I love NC! I love gardeing here - stuff grows so fast compared to Ohio!!! It is weird getting sunburns in Autumn tho - LOL

Don't forget the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh!

The annual Plant Distribution is coming up next weekend at the Arboretum, so if you join this week or on Saturday morning before the distribution, you can get lots of very cool plants. Check out the arboretum's website for details.

yotedog...I just got the stuff from the roundup all taken care of and here you are tempting regular, ordinary folks like me again;->>

Hey I have been there and had a ball its well worth it.

Lavina

Well ok, Lavina! Go ahead and encourage, too! I'll let you and yotedog shop for me...We'll do a swap! Oh, wait... :0
Bev

Hey Tresa! Welcome to DG! I'm a newbie here too, but so far, great site, great people! Can answer almost any question you can have, or can direct you to some site that can. From REAL people, who've been there, done that. I spent some time in Green Level, a "suberb" of Apex, which at the time (early '70's) was pure "hicksville". Totally glorious! Nowadays, I couldn't afford to buy the house I built in Green Level some 30 years ago... Such is life. But I hope you enjoy this DG as much as I have...

Hey Tggfisk--you'd love it--all these people literally RUNNING to grab their plants before someone else does. My son thinks its a blast! I took him last year, assuming they would let a 6 year old go with me without a membership..WRONG. For me to go, he had to be a member, too. (Jeez...do people really bring their kids to get extra free plants?? Thats pretty sleazy...).

He was mighty excited when he got his membership card in the mail addressed to "MR." Really made me mad, as money doesn't grow on trees, but he was with me because dad was out of town, so I had no choice.....ah well, its for a good cause.....

Welcome Tresa
The NC Botanical Garden has local art displays along the trails and most times you can buy plants there fairly inexpensively - including bog plants.

Also, if you have been here two years you probably already know about Plants Delight Nursery - their catalogue is great (I think folks collect them for the front cover!) and a few weekends a year you can purchase on site and tour the gorgeous gardens. (not inexpensive tho)

Last: Broadwells - has acres and acres of very inexpensive perennials and trees - but you have to know what you are buying as most are not labeled. I bought some beautiful camillas there and two wonderful big leaf holly (that I thought were camillas) ;0 )

Yotedog...Sounds like an Easter Egg Hunt with memberships:->> Maybe I'll sign up before the spring one...Must go pick up DD in Greenville this weekend. However...I'll have the image of y'all knocking each other over for those coveted plants in my head:-))
Bev

LOL!

Tresa hope you have been to Fairview Gardens. My DSIL works there. I like that place also. My son is on the Fairview Fire Dept. if you are in that district.

Lavina