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5 Unique Cut Flowers to Grow This Year - National Garden Bureau

Create Your Own Cut Flower Garden

Bring the outdoors in and keep your garden full of blooms with a cut flower garden. A simple and easy way to create homemade bouquets while still enjoying your garden outside. Here are 5 unique cut flowers to add to your cut flower garden this year! 1. Sunflower - Sunrich Gold Sunflowers are my number...

Community Pride is part of American In Boom - National Garden Bureau

Inspiration x 10

Communities Transformed America in Bloom-participating communities send me photos each year of the transformative ways they are making their towns more welcoming and vibrant places to live, work, and play – benefitting from colorful plants and trees; enjoying clean environments; celebrating heritage, and planting pride through volunteerism. As one mayor said, "We first thought it was...

Six Reasons Why Plants are More Than Just Pretty

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design, Planting

Plants can do all that?! Plants are “givers” – to you, your family, your office, and your community by offering environmental, economic, mental, and physical benefits. Sure, flowers, shrubs, trees are beautiful, but they are so much more. Below are six reasons that show how plants are more than just pretty. Reason 1: The Ability...

12 plants for a fall harvest - National Garden Bureau #gardeningtips

Planting Now for a Fall Harvest!

Foodscaping, Planting Tips, Vegetables

Why Fall Plant... As you harvest your tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, you might think your garden is winding down. But wait, there's more! You can start your planting now and reap a fall harvest all through the cool autumn season. Fall planting not only extends your garden season but also brings on those delicious crops that...

All Together Now!

Container Gardening, Foodscaping, Vegetables

When did vegetables and herbs become something to be segregated from flowers? So often you see a vegetable garden fenced off in a corner of the property and a flower garden near the house. It seems that at some point it was decided that vegetables are too ugly to be included in an ornamental garden....

21 Plants Pollinators Love!

Backyard Habitat, Flower Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

Plant some of these pollinator-friendly plants in your garden and get ready to enjoy the fun and beauty! (View slide show below to see all 21 varieties) Seven tips to help bring pollinators to your yard and community! Plant flowers and plants that pollinators love to stop for! It's easy when you add some of these...

A Super Hero In Disguise

Flower Gardening

A flower is the culmination of a seed’s story. And while there are as many stories out there as flowers, every once and awhile one of those stories stands out from the rest and deserves to be told. Sometimes it deserves to be shouted. Such is the story of one man, his family’s seed company,...

Can't wait to see these plants in my garden center - National Garden Bureau

Impressions from California Spring Trials 2018

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design

To See These Plants at My Garden Center! The CA Spring Trials was an awesome adventure and I don’t know where to begin botanically. Instead, I would first like to thank Diane Blazek, executive director of National Garden Bureau for being such an awesome tour guide. She has been visiting the CA Spring Trials for years...

Floral Watercolors: discovered at CAST 2018

Container Gardening, Flower Gardening

As a garden designer, photographer, and writer, I’m always curious to see what new plants will be revealed on the prestigious horticultural boardwalk at the California Spring Trials (CAST). This year I had the honor of being invited to attend CAST as a guest of National Garden Bureau and All-America Selections and spent an unforgettable week...

Growing and Using Herbs, Part 8: Thyme

Herbs

Common Thyme Thyme, a perennial hardy to Zone 4, can be grown from seed in a flat kept at about 55 degrees F. Germination takes three to four weeks. The first year plants will be small and not flower, growing more robust and flowering the second year. Thyme needs good drainage for its deep roots....