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Pollinator Predicament:

May 12, 2022Pollinator Gardening

What happens when the birds and bees can’t do it? When it comes to birds, bees, plants, and pollination, timing truly is everything. And, in the Rocky Mountains, where short summers dictate extreme synchronicity, the timing is off. Less snow and earlier springs may be a blessing for those of us who tire of winter...

Savor a Scent-sational Garden with Fragrant Plants

May 6, 2022Flower 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...

Pretty Portable pollinator gardens - National Garden Bureau

Pretty, portable pollinator gardens: Top 10 plants for pollinator-friendly containers

May 4, 2022Container Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

Bees, birds, butterflies, and other pollinators play an important role in our global ecosystem. In fact, they are essential. By transporting pollen from one plant to another, they make growing the food we eat and the beautiful garden spaces we enjoy possible. One of the easiest ways to support a healthy growing environment is to...

Four Plant Sources for Your Victorian Garden - National Garden Bureau

4 Flower Sources for Your Victorian Garden

April 28, 2022Flower 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,...

Wildflower Seed Paper - 10 Steps on Making Your Own - Earth Day

Wildflower Seed Paper: 9 Steps to Make Your Own

April 21, 2022DIY Crafts & Gifts, Kid's Gardening

Celebrate Earth Day or any day by making your own wildflower seed paper. A great activity for all ages. This handmade, Earth-inspired paper is made with recycled paper and embedded with wildflower seeds. A meaningful way to celebrate our planet! Makes a beautiful gift for family and friends. Material Needed: Scrap paper (suggested types listed...

4 Hydrangea Myths Busted

April 7, 2022How-to, Plant Care & Maintenance

Gardeners are waking up all over the country. How do I know this? I am seeing all sorts of garden-related info flash across my devices, from Yahoo News to horticultural sites, to personal blogs. But what gets most of my attention these days is all of the bad info about hydrangeas. So let’s do some...

Goth Garden: Spooky and Beautiful

March 24, 2022Garden Planning & Design, How-to

Do you gravitate to graveyards, finding ancient tombstones creepily intriguing? Prefer reading Daphne du Maurier to Sophie Kinsella? Relish an antique aesthetic rather than farmhouse chic? If your personal taste leans more toward creepy, mysterious vibes than pretty, perky designs, then a goth garden may be the perfect solution for your outdoor space. What is...

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

7 Reasons To Use Seed Tapes

March 16, 2022Seeds 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

March 3, 2022Container 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...

Houseplants have become the new Officeplants or Workplants - National Garden Bureau

Houseplants are the New Officeplants

February 17, 2022Gardening as Therapy, Indoor Gardening

Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, plants “breathe” in the carbon dioxide and release oxygen. We are perfect partners with plants. While we have officed at home, more and more of us have felt the benefits of houseplants. Filling our home office with undemanding plants we’ve understood more fully the calm they...

Pollinator Predicament:

Savor a Scent-sational Garden with Fragrant Plants

Pretty, portable pollinator gardens: Top 10 plants for pollinator-friendly containers

4 Flower Sources for Your Victorian Garden

Wildflower Seed Paper: 9 Steps to Make Your Own

4 Hydrangea Myths Busted

Goth Garden: Spooky and Beautiful

7 Reasons To Use Seed Tapes

Easy Ways To Create Edibles and Flowers Combinations

Houseplants are the New Officeplants

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