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The Best New Big Leaf Hydrangeas for Your Garden - National Garden Bureau

The Best New Big Leaf Hydrangeas for Your Garden

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design, Planting TipsMay 18, 2023gail
Are you disappointed with the flowers you are getting – or not getting – from your big leaf (macrophylla) hydrangeas? Do you think it might be time to get some of the newer, better versions? But there are so many these days. How can a gardener cut through the hype and make the right choice?...
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Looking for some cool plants to add to your garden? Here are a dozen of the most interesting newly-available plants to keep an eye out for.

12 Cool Plants to Look for This Year

Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design, PlantingMay 10, 2023gail
Looking for some cool plants to add to your garden? Here are a dozen of the most interesting newly-available plants to keep an eye out for. 1. Monstera Esqueleto Monstera Esqueleto is a gorgeous new houseplant known for its bold, unique foliage. Introduced in 2023 by NGB member Costa Farms, it has large, fenestrated leaves...
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Success in the Garden starts with a breeder! Thank a breeder - National Garden Bureau

Is Your Garden Thriving? Thank a Plant Breeder!

Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Perennials, Planning and DesignFebruary 15, 2023gail
Today you don’t need to be a horticultural expert to grow tasty tomatoes, mouth­watering watermelon, or fragrant lilacs. Advances in breeding over the past decade have resulted in plants that are easier for home gardeners to grow. They are more disease-resistant, weather tolerant, and prolific than ever before. “These researchers are dedicated to developing varieties...
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Creating a Nostalgic-Rich Garden with Modern Plants - National Garden Bureau

Create Your Own Nostalgia-Rich Garden with Modern Plants

Garden Planning & Design, PlantingJanuary 30, 2023diane
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...
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4 Hydrangea Myths Busted - National Garden Bureau

4 Hydrangea Myths Busted

How-to, Plant Care & MaintenanceApril 7, 2022gail
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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Shrubs for Cutting Gardens: Roses, Hydrangeas, and Other Long-Lasting Flowers - National Garden Bureau

Shrubs for Cutting Gardens: Roses, Hydrangeas, and Other Long-Lasting Flowers

Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & DesignMay 17, 2021diane
Design a cut flower garden with flowering shrubs that make fantastic flower arrangements If you grow hydrangea, spirea, flowering quince, or forsythia in your garden, your vases will overflow with beautiful blooms. Is there any greater pleasure for a gardener than harvesting and enjoying homegrown bounty, whether it’s a sun-warmed tomato or an armful of...
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Beware of the Hydrangea Danger Zone when pruning your Hydrangeas - National Garden Bureau

Hydrangea Danger Zone

How-to, Plant Care & MaintenanceMarch 18, 2021gail
Oh, no! Something else to worry about? Yes, I’m afraid there is. What is the Hydrangea Danger Zone™? Right now you and all other gardeners who grow hydrangeas could be in the Hydrangea Danger Zone. It’s that time between the fall when your “old wood” hydrangeas set their flower buds, and the coming spring when...
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Hydrangea Check Up Time - National Garden Bureau

Hydrangea Check Up Time

Planning and Design, Plant Care & MaintenanceJuly 15, 2020gail
Take time for a Hydrangea Check Up Are Your Hydrangeas Blooming? Every gardener I talk to, especially in the northeast and New England, is doing a happy dance this season: their hydrangeas are in full bloom. Despite temperature fluctuations, the sudden freezing temperatures of November 2019, and the wacky late spring weather we had (hailstorms,...
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The Best Time To Prune Your Hydrangea - National Garden Bureau

Hydrangea Pruning on Your Mind?

Plant Care & MaintenanceMarch 5, 2020gail
When to prune your Hydrangeas so they bloom this season. The Best Time for Hydrangea Pruning It’s unavoidable. A few warm days, birds chirping, snow melting, and crocuses sprouting can only mean one thing. Time to get those pruners out and do a little trimming. When it comes to hydrangeas, however, incorrect pruning is the...
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Blooming Hydrangeas are more than a dream with these 7 tips - National Garden Bureau #hydrangeagardeningtips

Blooming Hydrangeas Guaranteed!

Backyard Habitat, Garden Planning & Design, Planting TipsJuly 3, 2019gail
How to Get Blooming Hydrangeas Guaranteed Getting the Blooming Hydrangeas of Your Dreams! Warm climate gardeners have been enjoying hydrangea flowers for several weeks. Cold climate gardeners, on the other hand, are just now seeing the buds and blooms on their bigleaf hydrangeas (macrophylla). Alas, however, some may not be seeing anything except either dead...
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