We have made it into the growing season with this week’s final spring frost (hopefully) for the Piedmont Triad. Our planting and pollen season ramped up quickly with a warm ending to March and a hot start to April. This weekend is the perfect time for getting into the garden despite the extended drought conditions. I am excited to see if more of the perennials that I planted last year, will return with blooms after a bitterly cold and snowy winter. While it may take until May for some of the native perennials to bloom, the heat has pushed my rose blooms to open a few weeks early this year. I love gardening, and this means I even garden in the dark to get a couple more perennial flowers in the ground.Planting on a slope can be tough. This area of juniper was injured by tree cutting last year, but my neighbors have been trying to beautify the area with yellow coneflowersA fabulous place to start for new gardeners and anyone wondering what grows well in North Carolina soils is the North Carolina Extension Garden Tool Box. The Tool Box is a vast online resource that includes photographs and details of more than four thousand plants, trees, and shrubs. This weekend and some upcoming events may help you grow your garden a little bit greener this season. The North Carolina Cooperative Extension staff members and Master Gardener volunteers will be hosting plant sales to benefit ongoing agricultural programs in the community through the first weekend of May. There will be experts available during the sales to help guide you to the right flowers and vegetables that will grow well in your garden. Plan on bringing cash or checks for plant purchases.When planting, it is also important to remember the birds, bees, and wildlife. The upcoming spring sales will have native North Carolina Pollinator plants, too. Many of our viewers have been sharing their flower blooms with us on our ulocal North Carolina Facebook page. We would love to see you share your pictures with us there, too.WXII 12 News ulocal North Carolina Facebook PageGUILFORD COUNTY SPRING GARDENING EVENTSGuilford County Farm’s annual plant sale Guilford County Farm’s annual plant sale is underway. The sale will run through Saturday, May 30, or until all plants are sold. Gardeners and customers are welcome to shop every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon in Gibsonville, NC.Guilford County farms plant sale details can be found here. Passalong Plant Sale in GreensboroFriday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2There will be a Passalong Plant Sale hosted by the North Carolina Extension Master Gardener volunteers of Guilford County on Friday, May 1, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., and Saturday, May 2, from 9 a.m. until noon. The event is at the North Carolina Cooperative Extension-Guilford County Center located at 3309 Burlington Road in Greensboro, NC 27405. There will be native, perennial, pollinator, sun, shade, and house plants for sale. Shrubs and trees will also be available for purchase. Please consider bringing cash or checks to purchase plants, but cards are also being accepted this year. Find out more here about the Passalong Plant Sale.Find out more about community garden start-up grants that may be available in Guilford County through Sept. 1, 2026The North Carolina Agricultural Extension Office experts will host a session called Grow With Us: Successful Summer Vegetable Gardens on Monday, May 6, at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library located at 1420 Price Park Drive, Greensboro, NC 27410.Here is more information about Grow with Us: Successful Summer Vegetable Gardens.FORSYTH COUNTY SPRING GARDENING EVENTSReynolda Plant Sale Saturday, April 25, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.About the only thing that will get me up early on a Saturday morning is a fabulous plant sale! This coming Saturday, the Reynolda Garden Plant Sale will bring hundreds of people, rain or shine, to one of the biggest local plant sales of the season. Gardeners and plant lovers will swarm the Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s front lawn to find specialty and hard-to-find annuals, perennials, tropical plants, and North Carolina native flowers and shrubs. Reynolda Gardens horticulturalists have chosen some blooming gems that may brighten your garden this season. Friends of Reynolda Gardens will have the opportunity to pre-order plants a week in advance of the sale. You can find a little bit more on types of flowers and plants that might be sold by looking at the 2026 Plant List here. For membership questions, please call 336.758.5595 or email to advancement@reynolda.org. Friday, May 1, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.The Spring Plant Sale will be held by the Arboretum at Tanglewood Park volunteers and educators. Head to the Arboretum to find unique plants at great prices. The sale begins Friday, May 3, and continues Saturday, May 4. The event starts at 8 a.m. and lasts until 2 p.m. at the Manor House in Tanglewood Park at 4201 Manor House Circle in Clemmons, North Carolina.Bring cash or checks to purchase plants. Money raised will go to support the Arboretum’s maintenance and the Forsyth County Cooperative Extension’s educational programs. You may want to look at the long list of available plants on the extension website to plan your purchases.Find more details here about the Spring Plant Sale at the Arboretum in Tanglewood.Saturday, May 16-17 Carnivorous & Exotic Plant Symposium & Expo at PJCB Garden The team at Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden in Kernersville is hosting a special event to benefit the International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS). This two-day symposium will have fun activities and off-site Master Gardener tours in Kernersville. Find more details on the Carnivorous & Exotic Plant Symposium & Expo, email kenny@carnivorousplants.org with questions or sponsorship opportunities; event tickets can be purchased here. In addition to the symposium activities, the Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden will host off-site Master Gardener tours, extending the symposium’s educational and cultural reach across Kernersville.If you know of a plant sale you’d like me to list here or would like to share a picture of your garden, then please reach out to me via email: mkkennedy@hearst.com North Carolina Cooperative ExtensionThe North Carolina Cooperative Extension experts often host classes on agribusiness and provide outreach to farmers, youth, and families. This unique county network is one of the most successful collaborative projects in the state. North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University work with multiple government entities to provide agricultural support to local communities through services provided by the N.C. Cooperative Extension. Staff members from the Cooperative Extension are located in all of the state’s 100 counties and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.Find Your County Extension Center Using This Link.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —
We have made it into the growing season with this week’s final spring frost (hopefully) for the Piedmont Triad. Our planting and pollen season ramped up quickly with a warm ending to March and a hot start to April. This weekend is the perfect time for getting into the garden despite the extended drought conditions. I am excited to see if more of the perennials that I planted last year, will return with blooms after a bitterly cold and snowy winter.
While it may take until May for some of the native perennials to bloom, the heat has pushed my rose blooms to open a few weeks early this year. I love gardening, and this means I even garden in the dark to get a couple more perennial flowers in the ground.
Planting on a slope can be tough. This area of juniper was injured by tree cutting last year, but my neighbors have been trying to beautify the area with yellow coneflowers
A fabulous place to start for new gardeners and anyone wondering what grows well in North Carolina soils is the North Carolina Extension Garden Tool Box. The Tool Box is a vast online resource that includes photographs and details of more than four thousand plants, trees, and shrubs.
This weekend and some upcoming events may help you grow your garden a little bit greener this season. The North Carolina Cooperative Extension staff members and Master Gardener volunteers will be hosting plant sales to benefit ongoing agricultural programs in the community through the first weekend of May. There will be experts available during the sales to help guide you to the right flowers and vegetables that will grow well in your garden.
Plan on bringing cash or checks for plant purchases.
When planting, it is also important to remember the birds, bees, and wildlife. The upcoming spring sales will have native North Carolina Pollinator plants, too. Many of our viewers have been sharing their flower blooms with us on our ulocal North Carolina Facebook page. We would love to see you share your pictures with us there, too.
1 of 13
Dreamtime Jumbo Rose Bracteantha-Perennial
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
2 of 13
Blanket Flower Bloom
PHOTO: Krys Corley
3 of 13
Lantana Blooms
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
4 of 13
Bright Blooming Petunias
PHOTO: Paul Gerst
5 of 13
Pink Creeping Phlox Bloom
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
6 of 13
Blackberry Bloom
PHOTO: Richard Golden
7 of 13
Dark Pink Wand Flower-Perennial
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
8 of 13
Erysistible Bronze Rose Wallflower-Perennial
In the foreground you can see the purples and soft pinks of the Wallflower with the blooms of the orange Sun Star towering in the background.
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
9 of 13
Wallflower Close-Up
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
10 of 13
Sun Star Ornithogalum-Perennial
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
11 of 13
Garden Blooms- Yellow Jethro Tull Coreopsis, Firewitch Dianthus-Hibiscus
PHOTO: Michelle Kennedy
12 of 13
Pink Peony Bloom
PHOTO: Phil Blackmon
13 of 13
Bottlebrush Bloom
PHOTO: Linda Fleming Barnes
WXII 12 News ulocal North Carolina Facebook Page
GUILFORD COUNTY SPRING GARDENING EVENTSGuilford County Farm’s annual plant sale
Guilford County Farm’s annual plant sale is underway. The sale will run through Saturday, May 30, or until all plants are sold. Gardeners and customers are welcome to shop every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon in Gibsonville, NC.
Guilford County farms plant sale details can be found here.
Passalong Plant Sale in GreensboroFriday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2
There will be a Passalong Plant Sale hosted by the North Carolina Extension Master Gardener volunteers of Guilford County on Friday, May 1, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., and Saturday, May 2, from 9 a.m. until noon. The event is at the North Carolina Cooperative Extension-Guilford County Center located at 3309 Burlington Road in Greensboro, NC 27405. There will be native, perennial, pollinator, sun, shade, and house plants for sale. Shrubs and trees will also be available for purchase. Please consider bringing cash or checks to purchase plants, but cards are also being accepted this year.
Find out more here about the Passalong Plant Sale.
Find out more about community garden start-up grants that may be available in Guilford County through Sept. 1, 2026
The North Carolina Agricultural Extension Office experts will host a session called Grow With Us: Successful Summer Vegetable Gardens on Monday, May 6, at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library located at 1420 Price Park Drive, Greensboro, NC 27410.
Here is more information about Grow with Us: Successful Summer Vegetable Gardens.
FORSYTH COUNTY SPRING GARDENING EVENTS
Reynolda Plant Sale Saturday, April 25, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
About the only thing that will get me up early on a Saturday morning is a fabulous plant sale! This coming Saturday, the Reynolda Garden Plant Sale will bring hundreds of people, rain or shine, to one of the biggest local plant sales of the season. Gardeners and plant lovers will swarm the Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s front lawn to find specialty and hard-to-find annuals, perennials, tropical plants, and North Carolina native flowers and shrubs. Reynolda Gardens horticulturalists have chosen some blooming gems that may brighten your garden this season. Friends of Reynolda Gardens will have the opportunity to pre-order plants a week in advance of the sale.
You can find a little bit more on types of flowers and plants that might be sold by looking at the 2026 Plant List here. For membership questions, please call 336.758.5595 or email to advancement@reynolda.org.
Friday, May 1, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
This content is imported from Facebook.
You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
The Spring Plant Sale will be held by the Arboretum at Tanglewood Park volunteers and educators. Head to the Arboretum to find unique plants at great prices. The sale begins Friday, May 3, and continues Saturday, May 4. The event starts at 8 a.m. and lasts until 2 p.m. at the Manor House in Tanglewood Park at 4201 Manor House Circle in Clemmons, North Carolina.
Bring cash or checks to purchase plants. Money raised will go to support the Arboretum’s maintenance and the Forsyth County Cooperative Extension’s educational programs.
You may want to look at the long list of available plants on the extension website to plan your purchases.
Find more details here about the Spring Plant Sale at the Arboretum in Tanglewood.
Saturday, May 16-17 Carnivorous & Exotic Plant Symposium & Expo at PJCB Garden
The team at Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden in Kernersville is hosting a special event to benefit the International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS). This two-day symposium will have fun activities and off-site Master Gardener tours in Kernersville.
Find more details on the Carnivorous & Exotic Plant Symposium & Expo, email kenny@carnivorousplants.org with questions or sponsorship opportunities; event tickets can be purchased here. In addition to the symposium activities, the Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden will host off-site Master Gardener tours, extending the symposium’s educational and cultural reach across Kernersville.
If you know of a plant sale you’d like me to list here or would like to share a picture of your garden, then please reach out to me via email: mkkennedy@hearst.com
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension experts often host classes on agribusiness and provide outreach to farmers, youth, and families. This unique county network is one of the most successful collaborative projects in the state. North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University work with multiple government entities to provide agricultural support to local communities through services provided by the N.C. Cooperative Extension. Staff members from the Cooperative Extension are located in all of the state’s 100 counties and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
Find Your County Extension Center Using This Link.
Comments are closed.