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Grow A Theme Garden - Try Something Different - National Garden Bureau

Try Something Different: Grow a Theme Garden!

Backyard Habitat, Flower Gardening, Foodscaping, Kid's Gardening, Planning and Design, Pollinator Gardening, Vegetables
With busy schedules and jam-packed gardens, plants have to do double duty if they're going to fit into modern lives. We aren't just growing a vegetable or flower garden anymore. Now gardens have multiple purposes like supporting pollinators, engaging children in the garden, providing the supplies to create your own beauty products, or decorating your...
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Bring Butterflies to your garden

Bring Butterflies Back to Your Garden

Pollinator Gardening
Butterflies...Delightful Visitors in your Garden! There is no more delightful decoration for a garden than nature’s own--butterflies. On a warm sunny day these visitors provide color and motion that doubles the pleasure of gardening. How fortunate for the gardener that it takes very little effort to make the yard attractive to butterflies! Butterflies will visit, and...
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Basics for Creating a Pollinator-Friendly Garden

Backyard Habitat, Planning and Design, Pollinator Gardening

Every year, one week in June is designated as National Pollinator Week. In an effort to perpetuate a great cause, the National Garden Bureau is following up that event with some specific tips on how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Pollinators can include bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, bats, and beetles. Since the first three are the…

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Native Plants for the Home Garden

Pollinator Gardening

Native plants are among the most popular plants for American gardens, yet they have been growing in North American prairies, woods, and deserts for hundreds of years. However, the term native is often misunderstood and misused because all plants are native to some region of the world. The term is used here to identify a…

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