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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...

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...

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...

Four Plant Sources for Your Victorian Garden - National Garden Bureau

4 Flower Sources for Your Victorian Garden

Flower Gardening

Whenever we start a garden, we wonder what we should put in it. Do I want annuals, perennials, shrubs, or maybe biennials? Perhaps some ornamental grasses would work as well. Victorian gardeners in the late nineteenth century faced this same dilemma, but James Vick (1818-1882) had the answers. Owner of a seed company in Rochester,...

Seed Tapes & Discs: Top & Reasons Why To Grow With Them - National Garden Bureau

7 Reasons To Use Seed Tapes

Seeds and Seed Starting

Seed Tapes Makes Growing Easy If you are one of the 18 million+ North Americans who have taken up gardening for the first time since the start of the pandemic, welcome to the wonderful world of gardening. Ahead of you is a lifetime of fun, discovery, satisfaction, and enjoyment which will also give you so...

Mix-and-Match Edibles and Flowers for Gorgeous Combinations and a Productive Garden

Easy Ways To Create Edibles and Flowers Combinations

Container Gardening, Foodscaping, Vegetables

Peanut butter and jelly... Mac and cheese... Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Perfect combinations make life a little happier. Just like favorite flavors and power couples, your garden can benefit from great combinations, too. Who says veggies need to be relegated to the backyard? Beautifully blending veggies, fruit, herbs, and flowers means you can show...

15 Seed Starting Supplies to Make the Process Easier

Seeds and Seed Starting

Is the weather cold and gloomy outside, with your garden hibernating under a blanket of snow? Are you dreaming of summer veggies and browsing garden catalogs to help quell the winter blues? There’s nothing better for blustery weather and SAD attitudes than the pleasure of seed starting. While it may be too early to start...

There’s More To A Salad Than Lettuce

Vegetables

5 Ways to Enjoy Salad Greens! Salads have been a raw and healthy staple since ancient Greece (Greek salad anyone?), yet many people grow bored of the same tired salad bowl over and over. While it’s true you can spice up your ordinary salad by adding fresh fruits, vegetables, and dressings, you can also mix...

Herbs: Multi-purpose Plants

Herbs, Recipes

Herbs are definitely multi-purpose plants. Traditional uses include culinary, medicinal*, fragrance, and dye. We have written records of medicinal uses of herbs in 5000 B.C.E. in the Middle East, and archaeological evidence of medicinal use back to 8,000 years ago in China. One has to wonder: who was the first brave person to test some...

Learn what shrubs can do for your garden and how to pick one to fit your space

Choosing Shrubs: Why and How

Planting

Find the Right Shrubs for Your Space Learn what shrubs can do for your garden and how to pick one to fit your space Can you feel it? Fall is in the air, with cooler temperatures, sweater weather, and pumpkin spice everything just around the corner. But along with cooler, cozy vibes, gardens and gardeners...

Fabulous Flowers for Your Cutting Garden

Beautiful Bouquets from Your Cut Flower Garden

Savor a Scent-sational Garden with Fragrant Plants

4 Flower Sources for Your Victorian Garden

7 Reasons To Use Seed Tapes

Easy Ways To Create Edibles and Flowers Combinations

15 Seed Starting Supplies to Make the Process Easier

There’s More To A Salad Than Lettuce

Herbs: Multi-purpose Plants

Choosing Shrubs: Why and How

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