A Short History of Me as a Gardener

I am new to this whole blogging thing, so please bear with me. With that said hopefully I will keep up with this! I have always loved gardening. As a child my Mom would always let me pick a few annuals out and then designate a spot in her garden for me to plant them. My favorite was always Ageratum "Hawaii Blue". Every year those fuzzy blue flowers would lure me in, and every year it was the first thing to die. You see I had not yet learned that certain plants need a lot of sun, instead of the full shade area I put them in. These days I am into perennials. My favorite part about them is that once I find one that I really love, I know that I will be able to share it within a year or two. Right now some of my favorite (and hardiest) perennials are Hostas, Pulmonarias, Helleborus, Salvias, and Stokesia. I began learning about plants from my Mom, like most people do, but my formal training started when I was in high school. I took every Horticulture and Agriculture related class I could. I had wonderful teachers, the most influential to me was Mrs. Goforth. When she joined the staff at our high school that is when I really grew as a student. Haha..."grew" I make myself laugh sometimes. Now I am working on a degree at CPCC in Horticulture Technology. I use the phrase "working on" lightly, because I have taken 2 years off from the program. But next fall I WILL GO BACK. Well....we will see. I am currently working at a garden center in Charlotte. King's Greenhouse. So I am slightly biased about "My Favorite Garden Center." I am starting this blog as a platform to get out my ideas about plants, the industry, and designing. And to share info about the Garden Club I started. About a year and a half ago I began a garden club called the Dirty Girls. We have male members too, they are our Dirty Dudes. My cohort Loretta has been on my case because I have not done anything with the club since it was founded. So start looking for postings about meetings and excursions we are planning, because I have to get this thing going or she is going to leave me for another club! If you would like to join please come to one of our meetings. We are kind of exclusive, we only invite girls (and guys) that are really willing to be Dirty Girls (or Dudes) with us. My name is Megan and I truly am a Dirty Girl!