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Grow Your Own Cut Flowers for Beautiful Bouquets

Beautiful Bouquets from Your Cut Flower Garden

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & DesignJune 2, 2022gail
Is there anything lovelier than a beautiful bouquet of homegrown blooms? Whether you adore the sweet scent of spring narcissus, the vibrant colors of easy-to-grow zinnias, or the charming cheerfulness of sunflowers, growing your own cutting garden provides the perfect way to enjoy fabulous flowers throughout the year—with garden-to-vase arrangements. But not all flowers make...
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4 Flower Sources for Your Victorian Garden

Flower GardeningApril 28, 2022gail
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,...
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Sunflower DIY Ideas

DIY Crafts & Gifts, RecipesJuly 27, 2021diane
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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How to create a Kid's Storybook Gardens - Ideas for Kids Garden - National Garden Bureau

Storybook Gardens: The Cutest New Idea for Kids’ Gardens

Flower Gardening, Kid's GardeningApril 21, 2021diane
Storybook Garden Ideas for Your Kids! Storybook Gardens: The Cutest New Idea for Kids’ Gardens Encourage the love of reading and gardening with your favorite little people by pairing perfect books with great outdoor adventures! It’s easy to design and plant a creative play space based on beloved children’s storybooks. From how-to books for the...
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Ten Victorian Flowers We still love today - National Garden Bureau

Ten Victorian Flowers We Still Love

Flower GardeningApril 7, 2021gail
Top 10 Victorian Flowers We Still Grow Today! How Victorian Flowers were Brought to Our Garden In the early decades of the nineteenth century gardeners cultivated vegetables and herbs.  There was little time or energy for flower gardening since most of the population lived on farms where working the soil took up most hours of the...
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How to plant a sunflower house - National Garden Bureau

How to Plant a Sunflower House

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Kid's GardeningMarch 2, 2021diane
Let's Plant a Sunflower House Download this Garden Activity from KidsGardening 2021 is the Year of the Sunflower so what better time to plant sunflowers in a way that gives the kids a place to play! Sunflower plants have cheerful blooms − they look very much like faces surrounded by colorful petals! They come in...
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Seed Facts for Informed Buyers - National Garden Bureau

Seed Facts for Informed Buyers

Seeds and Seed StartingJanuary 21, 2021diane
With the new year comes new hope: for better health, to achieve your resolutions, and for gardeners, a bigger and better garden! Gardening is at an all-time high right now, because COVID-19 put us in stay-at-home mode, and it looks like that will continue for the near future. For the millions of new gardeners out...
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Fall is for Planting Bulbs - Enjoy the beauty of spring flowers by planting your bulbs now! - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0 #FallisforPlanting Bulbs

PlantingSeptember 11, 2020gail
Tips on Why Fall Is For Planting Bulbs Fall-Planted Bulbs Guarantee a Colorful Spring Garden Fall is in the air and that means it’s time for mums, pumpkins, apples… and planting spring-blooming flower bulbs! Invest an hour or two this fall to enjoy weeks of color next spring. Flowering fall bulbs have an important energy reserve....
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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 GardeningMay 28, 2020gail
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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Making the growing easy and successful with seed tapes - National Garden Bureau

Seed Tapes Makes The Growing Easy

Seeds and Seed StartingFebruary 27, 2020gail
Seed tapes are the easy, convenient, economical, and eco-friendly solution for planting your garden. Nothing, but nothing, beats the taste of delicious, homegrown, healthy, freshly picked veggies straight from your own garden. Written by David Arnold, Seed Developments With Spring just around the corner, now is the time to plan for a fabulous year-round harvest....
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