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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!

Information provided by NGB Member Breck's Bulbs 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...

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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

Written By: Lorraine Ballato Author of: Success With Hydrangeas: A Gardener’s Guide 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...

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Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Planting

Written by Kevin Espiritu Author of The Field Guide to Urban Gardening 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...

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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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Six Reasons Why Plants are More Than Just Pretty

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design, Planting

By: Laura Kunkle, Executive Director America in Bloom 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...

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21 Gardening Books for Holiday Gift Giving - National Garden Bureau

The Best Gardening Books for Holiday Gift Giving

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Foodscaping, Garden Planning & Design, Herbs, Planting Tips

Looking for just the right Holiday gift for that special gardener? Then think Gardening Books! These gardening books will fit anyone's gardening fancy from specific varieties like Dahlias or Hydrangeas to making a better and more environmentally sound landscape. You'll find gardening wisdom and DIY projects. And don't forget to drop a few hints for...

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Boost the Beauty of Your Spring Garden with Double Tulips

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Planting Tips

Written by Melinda Meyers 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...

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Stumbling Onto a Hidden Gem

Backyard Habitat, Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design

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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Can't wait to see these plants in my garden center - National Garden Bureau

Impressions from California Spring Trials 2018

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design

Written by: Tracy Blevins Co-founder of Plantsmap.com To See These Plants at My Garden Center! The CA Spring Trials was an awesome adventure and I don’t know where to begin botanically. Instead, I would first like to thank Diane Blazek, executive director of National Garden Bureau for being such an awesome tour guide. She has been visiting the...

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A Garden Devotion

Garden Planning & Design, Herbs, Pollinator Gardening

Written by Shelley S. Cramm (a book excerpt from NGB author members) God’s Word for Gardeners Bible is a devotional Bible for gardeners, featuring daily essays on a range of garden themes. It is an especially hallowed week in the garden, as the warmth of spring begins to wake up dormant plants with new life and...

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

Blooming Hydrangeas Guaranteed!

Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

The Best Flowers for Homegrown Bouquets

Six Reasons Why Plants are More Than Just Pretty

The Best Gardening Books for Holiday Gift Giving

Boost the Beauty of Your Spring Garden with Double Tulips

Stumbling Onto a Hidden Gem

Impressions from California Spring Trials 2018

A Garden Devotion

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