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

Your Ultimate Guide to Curb Appeal

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

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...

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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 Gardening

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-to

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 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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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

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

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,...

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

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Building A Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed

5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

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

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