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Gardening Simplified: Time-Saving, Practical Products - National Garden Bureau

Gardening Simplified: Time-Saving, Practical Products

How-to
Everyone loves a beautiful garden. Fabulous fragrance perfumes paths, cheerful flowers, and gorgeous foliage decorate landscapes, and homegrown tomatoes delight taste buds. But wow…it’s a lot of work! Those pristine plantings mean that a gardener worked hard to make the landscape look effortless. Planting, weeding, watering, feeding…a beautiful garden takes time and effort. Fortunately, many...
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4 Hydrangea Myths Busted - National Garden Bureau

4 Hydrangea Myths Busted

How-to, Plant Care & Maintenance
Gardeners are waking up all over the country. How do I know this? I am seeing all sorts of garden-related info flash across my devices, from Yahoo News to horticultural sites, to personal blogs. But what gets most of my attention these days is all of the bad info about hydrangeas. So let’s do some...
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Goth Garden: Spooky and Beautiful - National Garden Bureau

Goth Garden: Spooky and Beautiful

Garden Planning & Design, How-to
Do you gravitate to graveyards, finding ancient tombstones creepily intriguing? Prefer reading Daphne du Maurier to Sophie Kinsella? Relish an antique aesthetic rather than farmhouse chic? If your personal taste leans more toward creepy, mysterious vibes than pretty, perky designs, then a goth garden may be the perfect solution for your outdoor space. What is...
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Make Your Own Zen Garden: Why and How To - National Garden Bureau

Create Your Own Zen Garden: Why and How To

Gardening as Therapy, How-to
Destress, Embrace Tranquility, and Journey to Enlightenment with a Zen Garden Are you having a hard time channeling your inner Zen? Peace and tranquility may feel in short supply these days, but gardening elevates mental health and provides a great escape from relentless news cycles and the stressful state of the world. While any chance...
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Tips for Making Your Poinsettia Shine Through the Season and Beyond - National Garden Bureau

Tips for Making Your Poinsettia Shine Through the Season and Beyond

How-to, Indoor Gardening
Ask The Experts about Poinsettias! Few plants are as iconic as the poinsettia. The eye-catching blooms are a holiday tradition around the world. But the blooms aren’t a flower at all, they’re actually the leaves, or bracts, of the plant. Poinsettia are native to Central America, and in 1825, those stunning red leaves captured the attention of the United States ambassador to...
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Go outside and collect some natural material to make these fun crafts - National Garden Bureau

Making Winter Crafts with Natural Items

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Make your own winter crafts using the material you find in nature. Mother Nature’s Cabinet of Curiosities “The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.” Henry David Thoreau At no other season of the year is nature so generous with her gifts as in autumn/early winter. Children gain a large body of valuable knowledge...
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What to leave in the garden for your Birds - National Garden Bureau

What to Leave in the Garden for the Birds

Backyard Habitat, How-to
The Best Bird-Friendly Garden Ideas to Try This Fall Leave a treasure trove of food, nesting materials, and shelter for birds in your garden this fall. (Hint: don’t make things too tidy.) How can you encourage birds to visit your backyard? Create a bird-friendly habitat, of course! Did you embrace birding when the pandemic forced...
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Crafting with Luffa Sponges is fun and easy to do - National Garden Bureau

Crafting with Luffa Sponge Gourds

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Luffas can be used in a variety of ways as a food source, skin scrubber, and home cleaning sponge. The dried fibrous skeleton of the gourd also makes a great natural craft material. You can create fiber crafts, mixed media art projects, and home items using dried vines, gourds, and seeds.  Luffa vines are sturdy...
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