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Tips for Making Your Poinsettia Shine Through the Season and Beyond - National Garden Bureau

Tips for Making Your Poinsettia Shine Through the Season and Beyond

How-to, Indoor Gardening
Ask The Experts about Poinsettias! Few plants are as iconic as the poinsettia. The eye-catching blooms are a holiday tradition around the world. But the blooms aren’t a flower at all, they’re actually the leaves, or bracts, of the plant. Poinsettia are native to Central America, and in 1825, those stunning red leaves captured the attention of the United States ambassador to...
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Go outside and collect some natural material to make these fun crafts - National Garden Bureau

Making Winter Crafts with Natural Items

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Make your own winter crafts using the material you find in nature. Mother Nature’s Cabinet of Curiosities “The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.” Henry David Thoreau At no other season of the year is nature so generous with her gifts as in autumn/early winter. Children gain a large body of valuable knowledge...
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What to leave in the garden for your Birds - National Garden Bureau

What to Leave in the Garden for the Birds

Backyard Habitat
The Best Bird-Friendly Garden Ideas to Try This Fall Leave a treasure trove of food, nesting materials, and shelter for birds in your garden this fall. (Hint: don’t make things too tidy.) How can you encourage birds to visit your backyard? Create a bird-friendly habitat, of course! Did you embrace birding when the pandemic forced...
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Herbs: Multi-purpose Plants | National Garden Bureau

Herbs: Multi-purpose Plants

Herbs, Recipes
Herbs are definitely multi-purpose plants. Traditional uses include culinary, medicinal*, fragrance, and dye. We have written records of medicinal uses of herbs in 5000 B.C.E. in the Middle East, and archaeological evidence of medicinal use back to 8,000 years ago in China. One has to wonder: who was the first brave person to test some...
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Learn what shrubs can do for your garden and how to pick one to fit your space

Choosing Shrubs: Why and How

Planting
Find the Right Shrubs for Your Space Learn what shrubs can do for your garden and how to pick one to fit your space Can you feel it? Fall is in the air, with cooler temperatures, sweater weather, and pumpkin spice everything just around the corner. But along with cooler, cozy vibes, gardens and gardeners...
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Cover Crops - How to Rebuild Healthy Soil for Next Year’s Garden with Cover Crops | National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0: Soil Rejuvenation

Planting Tips
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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Flower Power in the Garden - Help pollinators with these tips | National Garden Bureau

Flower Power in the Pollinator Victory Garden

Pollinator Gardening
Flowers are some of the most important food sources for pollinators, but there’s more to it than planting flowers and waiting for pollinators to appear. A successful Pollinator Victory Garden achieves a balance between two seemingly disparate principles: plant diversity and plant sufficiency. Your garden needs to have a wide variety of plant species in...
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Fall time in the garden / National Garden Bureau

Fall Foundation

Plant Care
Fall...Setting in motion the foundation for thriving in plants and people. Through the years people have asked me, “What’s your favorite season”? In my youth, the Spring of my life, I told them, Winter. In the Summer of my life, I told people it was Fall. Now that I am in the Fall of my...
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Field of Dutch Bulbs for your Spring Garden

Bulb Mystery Solved!

Flower Gardening, Planting
Rumors are swirling that there is a bulb shortage, is there? Or is this similar to the seed shortage rumors that abounded last winter and spring? Remember, the seed shortage was actually a supply chain problem as our NGB member experts detailed in two information blogs Seed Facts for Informed Buyers and Ask the Experts about...
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Crafting with Luffa Sponges is fun and easy to do - National Garden Bureau

Crafting with Luffa Sponge Gourds

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Luffas can be used in a variety of ways as a food source, skin scrubber, and home cleaning sponge. The dried fibrous skeleton of the gourd also makes a great natural craft material. You can create fiber crafts, mixed media art projects, and home items using dried vines, gourds, and seeds.  Luffa vines are sturdy...
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