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10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator GardeningApril 22, 2020gail
10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0  Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...
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5 tips on Building Your Own Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Building A Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed

Garden Planning & Design, How-toApril 17, 2020gail
5 tips for building your own Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed Today’s gardeners have more options for where and how to start their gardens than the original Victory Gardeners. Of course, in-ground is always an option, as are container gardens for your Victory Garden 2.0. Raised beds are...
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Working with Nature by incorporating Permaculture - National Garden Bureau

5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

Foodscaping, Garden Planning & Design, Planning and DesignJanuary 9, 2020gail
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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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 & DesignJuly 26, 2019gail
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 TipsJuly 3, 2019gail
How to Get Blooming Hydrangeas Guaranteed 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...
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Urban Gardening Methods: Growing in any environment - National Garden Bureau

Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, PlantingMay 23, 2019diane
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 & DesignApril 25, 2019diane
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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Six Reasons Why Plants are More Than Just Pretty - National Garden Bureau

Six Reasons Why Plants are More Than Just Pretty

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design, PlantingJanuary 15, 2019diane
Plants can do all that?! Plants are “givers” – to you, your family, your office, and your community by offering environmental, economic, mental, and physical benefits. Sure, flowers, shrubs, trees are beautiful, but they are so much more. Below are six reasons that show how plants are more than just pretty. Reason 1: The Ability...
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Boost the beauty of your spring garden with Double Tulips - National Garden Bureau

Boost the Beauty of Your Spring Garden with Double Tulips

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Planting TipsSeptember 25, 2018gail
Fall is my favorite time to plant. The soil is warm, the air is cooler, and I am traveling less. Each fall I add new spring-flowering bulbs to my garden. This year double tulips are at the top of the list. Consider doing the same and help celebrate the National Garden Bureau’s Year of the...
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Stumbling Onto a Hidden Gem

Backyard Habitat, Garden Planning & Design, Planning and DesignSeptember 14, 2018diane
What do you think of when you hear Sonoma or Napa, California? Probably wine and of course, you are right. A recent business trip to Northern California included a half-day detour to Sonoma to explore what we thought was a small demonstration garden. We were amazed by the surprises hidden behind a nondescript parking lot...
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