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Fall In Love with Container Gardening - National Garden Bureau

Fall In Love With Container Gardening: 5 Great Reasons

Container GardeningJune 13, 2022diane
Container gardening, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Here are five great reasons to give container gardening a try: Beginning gardeners Plant Anywhere Architectural Interest Simplify maintenance Accessibility Additional points 1. Container gardening provides a baby step for the beginning gardener. The idea of gardening appeals to many people but sometimes...
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Gardening Simplified: Time-Saving, Practical Products - National Garden Bureau

Gardening Simplified: Time-Saving, Practical Products

How-toMay 19, 2022gail
Everyone loves a beautiful garden. Fabulous fragrance perfumes paths, cheerful flowers, and gorgeous foliage decorate landscapes, and homegrown tomatoes delight taste buds. But wow…it’s a lot of work! Those pristine plantings mean that a gardener worked hard to make the landscape look effortless. Planting, weeding, watering, feeding…a beautiful garden takes time and effort. Fortunately, many...
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Pretty Portable pollinator gardens - National Garden Bureau

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

Container Gardening, Pollinator GardeningMay 4, 2022gail
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...
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Mix-and-Match Edibles and Flowers for Gorgeous Combinations and a Productive Garden

Easy Ways To Create Edibles and Flowers Combinations

Container Gardening, Foodscaping, VegetablesMarch 3, 2022gail
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...
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Edible Containers

Quick and Easy Summer Edible Containers, 1-2-3!

Container Gardening, VegetablesJuly 15, 2021gail
If you're craving homegrown goodies but lack garden space, you'll find fabulous new vegetable introductions that work wonderfully in your edible containers. While many tomatoes can grow in pots, you'll need a large, 5-gallon container to grow traditional varieties. However, with advances in breeding, new, compact varieties make the perfect addition to container gardens, even...
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Summer Shade Containers are as easy as 1 plant-2 plants-3 plants

Quick and Easy Summer Shade Containers 1-2-3

Container Gardening, Flower GardeningJune 29, 2021gail
If your porch, patio, or balcony is more shady than sunny, don’t worry: we have container combinations for you! We've talked about Quick and Easy Summer Sun Containers, now let's talk about summer container gardening in the shade using the 1 plant, 2 plants, 3 plants method as well... One for Shade When you’re gardening...
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Create your own summer sun containers, it's as easy as 1,2,3 - National Garden Bureau

Quick and Easy Summer Sun Containers, 1-2-3!

Container Gardening, Flower GardeningJune 11, 2021gail
Create beautiful sun container gardens quickly and easily with just one, two, or three plants. There’s a reason container gardening is so popular. It’s easy for new gardeners to grow plants without a big time or money commitment. Experienced gardeners use container gardens to add focal points, design elements, and curb appeal to their homes....
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Foodscaping in Containers is a great way to maximize beauty and bounty throughout the growing season. - National Garden Bureau

How to Foodscape in Containers

Container Gardening, FoodscapingJune 3, 2021gail
Foodscaping is a great way to maximize beauty and bounty throughout the growing season. The Foodscape concept is simple: combine ornamental and edible plants together. It is all about making the most of the square footage you have access to, and containers are an ideal place to start! Before you get started planting foodscape combinations,...
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Adding Tropical Plants to your Landscape for a new twist - National Garden Bureau

Tropical Plants: Give Your Garden a Tropical Twist!

Garden Planning & DesignMay 11, 2021gail
Adding Tropical Plants to your Landscape! This year when you start your hunt for cool new accents to add to your garden, you're far more likely to find tropical and subtropical stars such as cannas, cordylines, mandevillas, hibiscus, elephant ears, bananas, palms, dracaena, and various flowering gingers front and center. It's thrilling to watch this...
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Ask The Experts: Growing Watermelon in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, PlantingJune 17, 2020gail
15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Watermelon Yes, You Can! Growing Watermelon in your Victory Garden 2.0 During the summer, watermelon is the favorite “must-have" way to beat the summer heat. Take your Victory Garden 2.0 up a notch by enjoying the fun and excitement of growing watermelon. Yum! You won't believe what...
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