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Grow Your Own Cut Flowers for Beautiful Bouquets

Beautiful Bouquets from Your Cut Flower Garden

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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Savor a Scent-sational Garden with Fragrant Plants

What’s your favorite garden memory? Is it burying your nose in sweet lavender lilacs, sneaking a sip of nectar from fragrant honeysuckle as a child, snipping spicy roses for a bouquet, or harvesting piney rosemary for recipes? Whatever your memories evoke, they’re sure to be tied to scent. After all, smell, emotion, and memories are...

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4 Hydrangea Myths Busted

How-to, Plant Care & Maintenance

Gardeners are waking up all over the country. How do I know this? I am seeing all sorts of garden-related info flash across my devices, from Yahoo News to horticultural sites, to personal blogs. But what gets most of my attention these days is all of the bad info about hydrangeas. So let’s do some...

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Make Your Own Zen Garden: Why and How To - National Garden Bureau

Create Your Own Zen Garden: Why and How To

Gardening as Therapy, How-to

Destress, Embrace Tranquility, and Journey to Enlightenment with a Zen Garden Are you having a hard time channeling your inner Zen? Peace and tranquility may feel in short supply these days, but gardening elevates mental health and provides a great escape from relentless news cycles and the stressful state of the world. While any chance...

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Victory Garden 2.0 Soil Basics

How-to, Soil, Compost and Mulch

Building Your Garden from the Ground Up: Basic Tips for Improving Garden Soil Quality You’re dreaming of spring, eager to grow a gorgeous garden filled with fresh food and beautiful blooms. But before you sow your first seed or order perennials from your favorite nursery, take the time to dig deep into your soil. Understanding...

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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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Victory Garden 2.0 #Fallisforplanting Vegetables

Foodscaping, Planting Tips, Vegetables

Why Continue Your Victory Garden 2.0 into the Fall ... Hopefully, you are now harvesting those delicious tomatoes, peppers, and summer squash from your Victory Garden 2.0. What a great and satisfying feeling! As the cool autumn season begins its descent, you may think that the gardening season is over until next summer. But not...

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Start a Foodscape Revolution Neighborhood this Fall - National Garden Bureau

Start a Foodscape Revolution This Fall!

Foodscaping, Vegetables

The Foodscape Revolution Neighborhood Edition This fall get inspired to start a foodscape revolution of your own! The idea is simple, just plant a few of your favorite veggies right in your landscape. Fill up the open space and cultivate FOOD! While you are at it, inspire your neighbors to do the same and suddenly...

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Victory Garden 2.0 Summer Maintenance

Plant Care & Maintenance

Summer Maintenance Tips for Your Victory Garden 2.0 “When the pandemic hit, I decided to plant a vegetable garden.” I’ve heard this from consultation clients and Plantrama listeners for the past three months, and my response is always the same. “Congratulations! You made a terrific choice.” I recognize that the stress of the COVID crisis...

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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...

Beautiful Bouquets from Your Cut Flower Garden

Savor a Scent-sational Garden with Fragrant Plants

4 Hydrangea Myths Busted

Create Your Own Zen Garden: Why and How To

Victory Garden 2.0 Soil Basics

Seed Facts for Informed Buyers

Victory Garden 2.0 #Fallisforplanting Vegetables

Start a Foodscape Revolution This Fall!

Victory Garden 2.0 Summer Maintenance

Ask The Experts: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

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