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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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Grillscaping Love Your Food, Love Your Space - National Garden Bureau

Grillscaping: Grow Food You Love in the Space You Enjoy

Foodscaping, Planning and Design, Vegetables

Written by Mark Konlock, Director, Green Bay Botanical Garden, Green Bay WI We’ve all heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” Nowadays we also want to know more about the sourcing and production processes used to grow the vegetables and fruits that we consume. Are they organically grown? How far did they travel to...

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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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It’s Hard Work Looking at Beautiful Flowers All Day

Planting

but somebody’s got to do it! Sounds glamorous, right? But imagine traveling nearly 300 miles up the coast of California, making 16 stops at flower and plant breeder's greenhouses, seeing literally hundreds of beautiful varieties, and doing it all in just 4 days! Talk about a whirlwind, that’s the California Spring Trials (CAST). This past...

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The Perfect Mother's Day Book for any Gardener or... from National Garden Bureau members

A Book for Every Type of Mom!

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Planting

Looking for a great Mother’s Day gift for your mom, grandma, or another great lady in your life? We’ve got a book for her! Whether she loves DIY, lives in a cold climate, has young kids, is into fresh herbs or is a foodie, is environmentally conscious, is contemplative or just likes a pretty garden,...

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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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Grow Your Own Scent Garden

Flower Gardening, Planting

Add an extra dimension and bring new delight to your garden by adding scented flowers. Fragrant flowers add to the ambiance of your garden. Smell is the sense most closely linked with memory, so start creating new memories by adding a few fragrant blooms this year. Roses For All Rose Stiletto Hybrid Tea Rose Brindabella...

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There’s A Dahlia for Every Garden and Gardener

Flower Gardening

Written by Melinda Meyers Few plants can rival the flowering power of a dahlia. These spring-planted bulbs start blooming in midsummer and continue for months, closing out the growing season with a blaze of color and beauty. No matter what size or type of garden you have, dahlias will claim center stage and put on a...

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5 Unique Cut Flowers to Grow This Year - National Garden Bureau

Create Your Own Cut Flower Garden

Flower Gardening

By: Allison Zeeb, Manager of Cut Flower Product Development American Takii Bring the outdoors in and keep your garden full of blooms with a cut flower garden. A simple and easy way to create homemade bouquets while still enjoying your garden outside. Here are 5 unique cut flowers to add to your cut flower garden...

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

Blooming Hydrangeas Guaranteed!

Grillscaping: Grow Food You Love in the Space You Enjoy

Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

It’s Hard Work Looking at Beautiful Flowers All Day

A Book for Every Type of Mom!

The Best Flowers for Homegrown Bouquets

Grow Your Own Scent Garden

There’s A Dahlia for Every Garden and Gardener

Create Your Own Cut Flower Garden

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