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Creating a Nostalgic-Rich Garden with Modern Plants - National Garden Bureau

Create Your Own Nostalgia-Rich Garden with Modern Plants

What evokes your favorite memories in the garden? Is it the scent of marigolds, taking you back to the first time you planted flowers with your mom? Is it the delicious flavor of sun-warmed tomatoes, sliced for a family picnic of BLTs? Or is it the heady aroma of lilacs, snipped from a hedge in...

10 Trees for Urban and Small Space Gardens

Garden Planning & Design

Trees are the backbone of the garden. They provide structure and framing. But not all trees can fit in small or urban gardens. Trees also give us shade and often flowers, fruits, nuts, and more. Many of them have several seasons of interest from textured bark in winter to flaming foliage color in fall. A small...

Those Intriguing Plant Names- Thereby Hangs a Tale

Kid's Gardening

Now, Roy and Joy had often dozed, through their weekly class in botany; I’m afraid they were wrongly inclined to think -that botany meant monotony. But the sight botanic they now beheld- would have awakened a sleeping possum! For every plant had an animal name and a living animal blossom ! ——- The Animal Garden...

10 Tips on creating the Ultimate Curb Appeal - National Garden Bureau

Your Ultimate Guide to Curb Appeal

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design

10 Tips To Create the Ultimate Curb Appeal Get the Best Front Yard on the Block Curb appeal: it’s a term bantered about by real estate agents and DIYers. You’ve heard about the importance of curb appeal, and maybe you’ve tuned into TV shows that flipped sad-looking properties into dreamy, darling aspirational homes. But what’s...

Garden gates gazebos and other structures

Gateways and Gathering Spots: Your Guide to Garden Gates, Gazebos, and More

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Planning and Design

Impress your visitors with gates, gazebos, and other graceful garden structures that create warm welcomes and cool resting spots. Weary winter months make us long for spring, but chilly days serve a perfect purpose: planning garden additions. Walking in the winter garden helps you assess its bones—the structural elements of your garden that create character...

Working with Nature by incorporating Permaculture - National Garden Bureau

5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

Foodscaping, Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design

5 easy ways to create a permaculture garden design leveraging the natural processes to regenerate the ecology of the site. “Permaculture” is one of those words that you hear in gardening enthusiast circles, but what the term means is not exactly well known. This guide will help you understand a bit of what permaculture is...

Create Your Own Nostalgia-Rich Garden with Modern Plants

10 Trees for Urban and Small Space Gardens

Those Intriguing Plant Names- Thereby Hangs a Tale

Your Ultimate Guide to Curb Appeal

Gateways and Gathering Spots: Your Guide to Garden Gates, Gazebos, and More

5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

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