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Success in the Garden starts with a breeder! Thank a breeder - National Garden Bureau

Is Your Garden Thriving? Thank a Plant Breeder!

Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Perennials, Planning and Design
Today you don’t need to be a horticultural expert to grow tasty tomatoes, mouth­watering watermelon, or fragrant lilacs. Advances in breeding over the past decade have resulted in plants that are easier for home gardeners to grow. They are more disease-resistant, weather tolerant, and prolific than ever before. “These researchers are dedicated to developing varieties...
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Victory Garden 2.0 #FallisforPlanting Perennials - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0 #FallisforPlanting Perennials

How-to, Perennials
Tips on planting your perennials this Fall Fall is a great time to add perennials to your Victory Garden 2.0! Fall may be a better time to plant perennials than spring. Like spring, fall has cooler, rainier weather that is more conducive to helping plants establish. Unlike spring, fall doesn’t subject freshly planted perennials to...
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Bee-Friendly Shrubs & Perennials for your Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Bee-Friendly Plants Create a Perfect Pollinator Garden

Perennials, Planting Tips, Pollinator Gardening
Adding bee-friendly shrubs and perennials to your garden. Bee-friendly and Butterfly-friendly plants continue to pique the interest of gardeners... whether they’re edible growers hoping to lure pollinators to boost the veggie harvest, ornamental gardeners who adore the interest butterflies and bees provide to the landscape or naturalists who wish to help feed and protect bees...
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Experience The Colors of Fall with Perennials - National Garden Bureau

Perennials for Fall Color!

Perennials
As the season progresses into autumn... We certainly hope to enjoy flowers in the garden as late as possible although we take some solace and enjoyment when seeing the tapestry of rich coloration of fall color throughout our woodlands and gardens. Mother Nature certainly makes the call on when the season's transition and for those...
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Delphiniums, a perennial favorite

Perennials

Delphiniums Delphinium is a perennial favorite as the tall spikes of blue flowers in the background of a stately English or cottage garden.  The modern delphinium flower may be a single or double rosette in popular blue or red, pink, white, violet and yellow.  Many of the flowers have white or black centers known as…

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