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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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Beneficial Wasps and You - National Garden Bureau

Beneficial Wasps and You

Backyard Habitat, Pollinator Gardening
Don’t be scared! Did you know…Wasp pollination and predatory efforts are signs of a healthy ecosystem!?! What is the first thing you think of when you hear, “wasp”? Was it a yellow jacket, hornet, fear, nuisance, pain? What about beneficial wasps? Have you heard of them? What do you think they do? For many, the concept...
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Sunflower DIY Projects to make for summer and fall - Year of the Sunflower

Sunflower DIY Ideas

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Recipes
Easy Sunflower DIY Projects Ideas to Create on Your Own Feelin’ Sunny: Make These Sunflower DIY Projects Now!  From crafts to cooking to kids’ parties, try these bright ideas for sunflower DIY projects. Cheery, bright sunflowers: they’re the perfect plant to entice pollinators, add garden drama (the good kind, that is!), lure little ones to...
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Cocktails from the Garden - National Garden Bureau

Sip and Savor Cocktails from the Garden

Recipes
One of the fantastic things about gardening is that once summer arrives, you can (hopefully) take a break from the planting and weeding and truly enjoy the beautiful space you've created. Sweep off the patio then invite some friends over to sit and relax while enjoying the view. Maybe one way to relax is by...
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