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With the new year comes new hope: for better health, to achieve your resolutions, and for gardeners, a bigger and better garden! Gardening is at an all-time high right now, because COVID-19 put us in stay-at-home mode, and it looks like that will continue for the near future. For the millions of new gardeners out...

Thank Goodness 2021 is the Year of the Monarda!

Flower Gardening, Perennials, Pollinator Gardening

The Year 2020 Has Made One Thing Clear... We Have A Great Deal To Look Forward To! I suppose one has to brain dead or living in a cave to not realize that the year 2020 was not quite normal. What with politics, storms, and a pandemic, it is not surprising, given the shutdowns and...

Gardens of the Future Survey Results - National Garden Bureau

What Does Your Future Garden Look Like?

Planting

Gardens of the Future Survey Results In celebration of National Garden Bureau's 100th anniversary, we conducted a "Future of Gardening" survey. We think you'll be interested in what your fellow gardeners (or you, if you took the survey!) have to say. Our main goal was to get an overall vision of what today's gardeners think...

Holiday Gardening Gifts!

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Gardening Books, Planting

It might be a very strange holiday season this year, and we might not be able to see our loved ones in person, but that doesn't mean you can't give them something special! Give your special gardener the perfect Holiday Gardening Gifts they will love even after the holiday season like a new tool, book,...

Can't Miss Daffodils for Your Spring Garden - National Garden Bureau

12 Favorite Daffodils to Grow for Spring

Flower Gardening

12 Different Daffodils to Plant This Spring Now is the time to plant those trumpeters of spring! These easy to plant bulbs will bring years of bright spring color. And unlike other spring bulbs...daffodils are left alone by mice, voles, squirrels, rabbits, and deer. When to plant: The ideal daffodil planting time depends on where...

#FallisforPlanting Shrubs - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0 #FallIsForPlanting Shrubs

Planning and Design, Planting

Fall is the Perfect Time to Plant Shrubs Shrubs are some of the most reliable and hardworking plants in the garden. They are long-lived, big enough to make an impact while still fitting into gardens of any size (even container gardens!), and some offer the same flowers, fragrance, leaf color, or pollinator appeal as your...

6 Easy-To-Grow Houseplants for Your Home - National Garden Bureau

Houseplants Make Us Happy, Keep Us Healthy!

Indoor Gardening, Planting

6 Easy-To-Grow Houseplants for Your Home The houseplant is making a comeback, and it couldn’t come at a better time than in the midst of a pandemic. With so many people these days working from home offices and generally spending more time in their kitchens, living rooms, and family rooms, houseplants provide environmental, health, and...

Victory Garden 2.0 #FallisforPlanting Bulbs

Planting

Tips on Why Fall Is For Planting Bulbs Fall-Planted Bulbs Guarantee a Colorful Spring Garden Fall is in the air and that means it’s time for mums, pumpkins, apples… and planting spring-blooming flower bulbs! Invest an hour or two this fall to enjoy weeks of color next spring. Flowering fall bulbs have an important energy reserve....

Victory Garden 2.0 Fall Chores : How to divide your bearded irises - Year of the Iris - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0: #Fallisforplanting (or Dividing) Your Bearded Irises

Flower Gardening, How-to

In this, the Year of the Iris, let’s talk a bit about a Victory Garden 2.0 fall gardening task that comes up every few years: dividing your bearded irises (Iris × germanica). This iris, often called German iris, produces large multicolored flowers in late spring or early summer that bear, on their slightly drooping sepals, a fuzzy “beard”,...

Victory Garden 2.0 #Fallisforplanting Vegetables

Foodscaping, Planting Tips, Vegetables

Why Continue Your Victory Garden 2.0 into the Fall ... Hopefully, you are now harvesting those delicious tomatoes, peppers, and summer squash from your Victory Garden 2.0. What a great and satisfying feeling! As the cool autumn season begins its descent, you may think that the gardening season is over until next summer. But not...