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Create a Tropical Paradise with Hardy Hibiscus

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

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!

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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...

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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...

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

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!

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