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Fabulous Flowers to Include in a Cutting Garden - National Garden Bureau

Fabulous Flowers for Your Cutting Garden

What should you grow in your cutting garden? If you adore bold colors and textures, choose cheerful zinnias and sunflowers in vibrant colors. If you prefer a softer palette and delicate blooms, consider sweet peas or cosmos. The choice is yours. You should grow what you love! What plants should you choose? Heat-Tolerant Annuals Beyond...

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Grow Your Own Cut Flowers for Beautiful Bouquets

Beautiful Bouquets from Your Cut Flower Garden

Is there anything lovelier than a beautiful bouquet of homegrown blooms? Whether you adore the sweet scent of spring narcissus, the vibrant colors of easy-to-grow zinnias, or the charming cheerfulness of sunflowers, growing your own cutting garden provides the perfect way to enjoy fabulous flowers throughout the year—with garden-to-vase arrangements. But not all flowers make...

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Savor a Scent-sational Garden with Fragrant Plants

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design

What’s your favorite garden memory? Is it burying your nose in sweet lavender lilacs, sneaking a sip of nectar from fragrant honeysuckle as a child, snipping spicy roses for a bouquet, or harvesting piney rosemary for recipes? Whatever your memories evoke, they’re sure to be tied to scent. After all, smell, emotion, and memories are...

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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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Create a Tropical Paradise with Hardy Hibiscus

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design

You can create your own Tropical Paradise with the Delicious Hues of Summer Spice® Hardy Hibiscus! Creating a tranquil tropical escape for summer staycations may seem daunting, especially if you garden in northern zones. After all, the spectacular blooms and lush foliage of tender tropical plants last a fleeting season when winter freezes arrive. If...

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Shrubs for Cutting Gardens: Roses, Hydrangeas, and Other Long-Lasting Flowers

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design

Design a cut flower garden with flowering shrubs that make fantastic flower arrangements If you grow hydrangea, spirea, flowering quince, or forsythia in your garden, your vases will overflow with beautiful blooms. Is there any greater pleasure for a gardener than harvesting and enjoying homegrown bounty, whether it’s a sun-warmed tomato or an armful of...

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Adding Tropical Plants to your Landscape for a new twist - National Garden Bureau

Tropical Plants: Give Your Garden a Tropical Twist!

Garden Planning & Design

Adding Tropical Plants to your Landscape! This year when you start your hunt for cool new accents to add to your garden, you're far more likely to find tropical and subtropical stars such as cannas, cordylines, mandevillas, hibiscus, elephant ears, bananas, palms, dracaena, and various flowering gingers front and center. It's thrilling to watch this...

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10 Tips on creating the Ultimate Curb Appeal - National Garden Bureau

Your Ultimate Guide to Curb Appeal

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design

10 Tips To Create the Ultimate Curb Appeal Get the Best Front Yard on the Block Curb appeal: it’s a term bantered about by real estate agents and DIYers. You’ve heard about the importance of curb appeal, and maybe you’ve tuned into TV shows that flipped sad-looking properties into dreamy, darling aspirational homes. But what’s...

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Companions for NGB’s Plants of the Year

Garden Planning & Design, Planting Tips

Love This? Plant These, Too! Companions for Our Plants of the Year It’s a Major Award—but you’re the one who wins! Each year, National Garden Bureau selects five top-performing plants, designating them with the “Year of” status. One edible, one annual, one perennial, one bulb, and one shrub achieve the coveted “Year of” status. For...

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Gateways and Gathering Spots: Your Guide to Garden Gates, Gazebos, and More

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Planning and Design

Impress your visitors with gates, gazebos, and other graceful garden structures that create warm welcomes and cool resting spots. Weary winter months make us long for spring, but chilly days serve a perfect purpose: planning garden additions. Walking in the winter garden helps you assess its bones—the structural elements of your garden that create character...

Fabulous Flowers for Your Cutting Garden

Beautiful Bouquets from Your Cut Flower Garden

Savor a Scent-sational Garden with Fragrant Plants

Goth Garden: Spooky and Beautiful

Create a Tropical Paradise with Hardy Hibiscus

Shrubs for Cutting Gardens: Roses, Hydrangeas, and Other Long-Lasting Flowers

Tropical Plants: Give Your Garden a Tropical Twist!

Your Ultimate Guide to Curb Appeal

Companions for NGB’s Plants of the Year

Gateways and Gathering Spots: Your Guide to Garden Gates, Gazebos, and More

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