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10 Tips for Successful Pollinator Plantings - National Garden Bureau

10 Tips for Successful Pollinator Plantings

Pollinator Gardening
The colorful posters with a collection of common herbs are a popular social media share. Save the bees, they say; plant these. I’ve been known to peek at those lists and note to myself – I could use a few more hyssop plants in my apiary – but that well-meaning call to action widely misses...
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Growing Wildflowers in your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask The Experts: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Flower Gardening, How-to, Pollinator Gardening
15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Ask The Experts: Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Wildflowers are one of Mother Nature’s loveliest gifts and a perfect addition to your Victory Garden 2.0. Their changing panorama of colors, shapes, sizes, and heights provides delight throughout the seasons. Wildflowers can be used anywhere. In...
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10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator Gardening
10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0  Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...
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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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Butterfly Gardening for Children

Kid's Gardening, Pollinator Gardening
Winged jewels of the air ... flutterbys ... no matter what you call butterflies, they entrance everyone. Planting a garden to attract them is one of the best ways to get children interested in gardening and nature while introducing them to a bit of science at the same time. To attract butterflies, design a garden...
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