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Trend Alert: “Gemini Hair” Flowers…and Plants?!

Flower Gardening
According to recent Pinterest search terms, "Gemini Hair" is a VERY hot topic! Glamour magazine says "Gemini Hair is the Two-Tone Dye Job Taking Over in 2023." What is "Gemini Hair"? It is a colorful, astrology-inspired look that has hair dyed in two different, contrasting colors. One color can be one's natural color with a...
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Contemplating No Mow May?

Backyard Habitat, Pollinator Gardening
Make an informed decision with the help of our experts before jumping on this social media craze! The concept behind No Mow May is to create a temporary habitat for early-season pollinators by not mowing your lawn. Founded in the UK, this trend may not be appropriate for all regions of North America in the...
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Grow Your Own Cut Flowers for Beautiful Bouquets

Beautiful Bouquets from Your Cut Flower Garden

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design
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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Four Plant Sources for Your Victorian Garden - National Garden Bureau

4 Flower Sources for Your Victorian Garden

Flower Gardening
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 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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Ten Victorian Flowers We still love today - National Garden Bureau

Ten Victorian Flowers We Still Love

Flower Gardening
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 Gardening
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 Starting
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

Planting
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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