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Working with Nature by incorporating Permaculture - National Garden Bureau

5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

5 easy ways to create a permaculture garden design leveraging the natural processes to regenerate the ecology of the site. “Permaculture” is one of those words that you hear in gardening enthusiast circles, but what the term means is not exactly well known. This guide will help you understand a bit of what permaculture is...

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Seeds for a new Garden Season - Let's Grow Compact Vegetables - National Garden Bureau

Tasty Compact Vegetable Seeds to Grow

Container Gardening, Planting, Seeds and Seed Starting

Looking for compact vegetable seeds that are easy to grow? Here are some new and old favorites to grow this season. ‘Tis the season of seed catalogs! I love finding them in my mailbox. It’s a wonderful time of year to curl up and read about all the new and old vegetable varieties. A great...

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Perennials for Fall Color!

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As the season progresses into autumn... We certainly hope to enjoy flowers in the garden as late as possible although we take some solace and enjoyment when seeing the tapestry of rich coloration of fall color throughout our woodlands and gardens. Mother Nature certainly makes the call on when the season's transition and for those...

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New Tulips for Next Spring!

Flower Gardening, Planning and Design

It's not too early to start thinking about Spring!!! And what better way than with new Tulip Bulbs? Fall is the time to plant spring flowering bulbs and why not make next spring extra pretty with new Tulip varieties? Our NGB members' newest tulip bulbs will look amazing in your garden. Order early, these bulbs...

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Plant an Iris or Two in Your Garden - National Garden Bureau

Bearded, Beardless or Dutch, there’s an Iris for you!

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design

Plant an Iris when you are looking for a showy flower to add to your garden! Fall is the perfect time to plant an iris, and they are among the easiest perennials to grow. Named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris, there are hundreds of iris species in almost all the colors of...

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Blooming Hydrangeas are more than a dream with these 7 tips - National Garden Bureau #hydrangeagardeningtips

Blooming Hydrangeas Guaranteed!

Backyard Habitat, Garden Planning & Design, Planting Tips

Getting the Blooming Hydrangeas of Your Dreams! Warm climate gardeners have been enjoying hydrangea flowers for several weeks. Cold climate gardeners, on the other hand, are just now seeing the buds and blooms on their bigleaf hydrangeas (macrophylla). Alas, however, some may not be seeing anything except either dead stems or live stems with no...

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Attract Pollinators with Container Gardening - National Garden Bureau

Attract Pollinators with Container Planters

Container Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

No yard? No problem! Container planters can help you play a part in attracting pollinators even if you don’t have a yard! In the United States one-third of all agricultural output depends on pollinators, we need pollinators and pollinators need us! Help the pollinators do their job by planting pollinator-attracting plants in your containers. Create...

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Grillscaping Love Your Food, Love Your Space - National Garden Bureau

Grillscaping: Grow Food You Love in the Space You Enjoy

Foodscaping, Planning and Design, Vegetables

We’ve all heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” Nowadays we also want to know more about the sourcing and production processes used to grow the vegetables and fruits that we consume. Are they organically grown? How far did they travel to get to me? One way to know the answers and have control...

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Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Planting

When you live in a concrete jungle, it seems like it’s impossible to find space to create an actual edible jungle. It's time for Urban Gardening! We all have this mental image of a garden as an outdoor paradise, sequestered from the house and our day-to-day existence. But there are plenty of ways to work...

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The Best Flowers for Homegrown Bouquets

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design

Homegrown bouquets can decorate your home all summer long. The key to growing homegrown bouquets is by planting a combination of annuals, perennials, and flowering bulbs. This way you will always have new flowers coming into bloom. Every flower farmer knows that summer-blooming bulbs are the backbone of a cutting garden. Bulbs such as lilies,...

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5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

Tasty Compact Vegetable Seeds to Grow

Perennials for Fall Color!

New Tulips for Next Spring!

Bearded, Beardless or Dutch, there’s an Iris for you!

Blooming Hydrangeas Guaranteed!

Attract Pollinators with Container Planters

Grillscaping: Grow Food You Love in the Space You Enjoy

Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

The Best Flowers for Homegrown Bouquets

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