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The Best New Big Leaf Hydrangeas for Your Garden - National Garden Bureau

The Best New Big Leaf Hydrangeas for Your Garden

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design, Planting TipsMay 18, 2023gail
Are you disappointed with the flowers you are getting – or not getting – from your big leaf (macrophylla) hydrangeas? Do you think it might be time to get some of the newer, better versions? But there are so many these days. How can a gardener cut through the hype and make the right choice?...
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Get in the Zone: Two Truths (and a Lie) about Zone Maps

How-to, Planning and Design, Planting TipsMarch 15, 2023gail
Have you ever returned from a trip, determined to recreate that tropical vacation vibe in your northern backyard? Or maybe you hope to grow lilacs, like those that filled the vase on your grandmother’s kitchen table—but aren’t sure they’ll flourish in your southern garden. While it’s easy to drool over the latest, greatest plants featured...
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5 Essential Spring Gardening Tips

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Planting TipsMarch 9, 2023gail
Spring is full of new life, green grass, and sunshine! It’s also time to get back into the garden. Here are some tips to keep you and your garden on track this spring. 1. Remove Winter Protection In the fall or early winter, you may have added some winter protection, like mulch or leaves, to...
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Victory Garden 2.0: Soil Rejuvenation

Planting TipsSeptember 30, 2021diane
Putting Your Garden to Bed: How to Rebuild Healthy Soil for Next Year’s Garden with Cover Crops Learn how to rejuvenate and replenish your soil’s fertility and structure at the end of the growing season with cover crops. With the first chill of fall, many gardeners sigh with relief.  Sweltering summer days filled with watering,...
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Companions for NGB’s Plants of the Year - National Garden Bureau

Companions for NGB’s Plants of the Year

Garden Planning & Design, Planting TipsMarch 24, 2021diane
Love This? Plant These, Too! Companions for Our Plants of the Year It’s a Major Award—but you’re the one who wins! Each year, National Garden Bureau selects five top-performing plants, designating them with the “Year of” status. One edible, one annual, one perennial, one bulb, and one shrub achieve the coveted “Year of” status. For...
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Victory Garden 2.0 - #fallisforplanting Vegetables - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0 #Fallisforplanting Vegetables

Foodscaping, Planting Tips, VegetablesAugust 21, 2020gail
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...
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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 GardeningJune 9, 2020gail
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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Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 tips for container gardens - National Garden Bureau

Plant a Container Victory Garden 2.0

Container Gardening, Planting TipsApril 8, 2020gail
Ten tips for planting a container Victory Garden 2.0 Grow a Container Victory Garden? Yes, You Can! James H. Burdett did not address container growing in The Victory Garden Manual, but times were different in 1943. Today, growing edibles in containers is probably one of the fastest emerging trends we are seeing.  Plus, with vegetable...
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Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 steps in Planting Your garden - National Garden Bureau

Planting Outdoors Victory Garden 2.0

Planting Tips, VegetablesMarch 30, 2020diane
Ten tips for planting your own Victory Garden 2.0 outdoors Congratulations on your decision to start your own Victory Garden 2.0! Now it's time for planting your garden outdoors!  In our last blog, we talked about how to plan your garden, including starting from seed. Now it's time to think about or begin, planting your...
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Grow Your Own Grains - National Garden Bureau

Gardening with Grains

Foodscaping, Planting TipsNovember 7, 2019gail
#CrazyGrainLady A few years ago, I dubbed myself the #CrazyGrainLady. Though I had very little experience growing traditional agricultural crops, I was fascinated by the idea of incorporating grains into my suburban foodscape. Now, a few seasons later my novel approach has turned into a year-round obsession. In my new book, Gardening with Grains, you...
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