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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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It’s Hard Work Looking at Beautiful Flowers All Day

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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 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

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 sensational show. Dahlias...

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

Create Your Own Cut Flower Garden

Flower Gardening

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 this year! 1. Sunflower - Sunrich Gold Sunflowers are my number...

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Community Pride is part of American In Boom - National Garden Bureau

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Planning and Design, Planting

Communities Transformed America in Bloom-participating communities send me photos each year of the transformative ways they are making their towns more welcoming and vibrant places to live, work, and play – benefitting from colorful plants and trees; enjoying clean environments; celebrating heritage, and planting pride through volunteerism. As one mayor said, "We first thought it was...

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Six Reasons Why Plants are More Than Just Pretty

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design, Planting

Plants can do all that?! Plants are “givers” – to you, your family, your office, and your community by offering environmental, economic, mental, and physical benefits. Sure, flowers, shrubs, trees are beautiful, but they are so much more. Below are six reasons that show how plants are more than just pretty. Reason 1: The Ability...

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Fall is the Time to Plant a Colorful Spring Garden

Flower Gardening

For me, spring starts when the yellow winter aconites and snowdrops peek through the soil in my garden. It has been as early as March 4th here in Wisconsin, but usually occurs around Tax Day – a day when I can always use a bit of floral relief! As the soil begins to warm, other...

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10 New Tulip Varieties for a Beautiful Spring Color

Flower Gardening

New Tulip Varieties for a Beautiful Spring! Planting new tulip varieties in the fall, forgetting about them over the winter, and then being amazed when they first start appearing is a time-honored tradition (at least in my house). This spring you will be thrilled and delighted when these new tulips start appearing in your yard! Adding some new...

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Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

It’s Hard Work Looking at Beautiful Flowers All Day

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

Inspiration x 10

Six Reasons Why Plants are More Than Just Pretty

Fall is the Time to Plant a Colorful Spring Garden

10 New Tulip Varieties for a Beautiful Spring Color

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