Flat Rock Playhouse Gardening Club

Please join The Flat Rock Playhouse Gardening Club. If you love gardening, beautiful settings and wonderful people come see and hear what's happening at our Welcome Coffee Get Together - Feb 9th at 10.30am at The Playhouse, North Carolina's State Theatre. Please RSVP to hyronslanding@gmail.com.......................
We welcome new members and meet every Tuesday morning when temperatures are over 50 degrees to renovate the gardens of the theatre

The Inspired Dead Mud process has started.

Edgeworthia Chrysantha Jan 25 2010

So far this magnificent specimen has survived the bitter cold of this winter with night time temps dropping to 9 degrees. ....and she is looking good!

Jesca Monamatapa

A new challenge, watch this space. I hope she'll be 4-5ft tall.

When Live Mud turns to Dead Mud

Gardening season over - it's time to pay attention to indoor creations and make labels for all those fabulous new plants at the Flat Rock Playhouse.

'The Dratted Deer'

As a MG I think the question I get asked the most at social functions is 'What can I plant that the deer wont eat' - frankly - the answer is nothing - If deer are hungry enough they will eat everything. However there are some plants that they don't like and I found a wonderful list for the Carolinas written by Margot Rochester shortly before she died in October 2008.

Shrubs - (the garden's skeleton)
Aucuba, chokeberry, barberry, buddleia. common boxwood. chinese juniper. false cyprus (Chamaecyparis) inkberry, American hollies, mountain laurel, kerria, beautybush, mahonia, and nandina.

Perenials -
Yarrow, alliums, amsonia, anemones, native columbine, artemesias, butterfly weed, baptisia, plumbago chrysanthemums, crocosima, coreopsis, coneflowers, Joe Pye weed, euphorbia and geum.