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Pretty Portable pollinator gardens - National Garden Bureau

Pretty, portable pollinator gardens: Top 10 plants for pollinator-friendly containers

Container Gardening, Pollinator GardeningMay 4, 2022gail
Bees, birds, butterflies, and other pollinators play an important role in our global ecosystem. In fact, they are essential. By transporting pollen from one plant to another, they make growing the food we eat and the beautiful garden spaces we enjoy possible. One of the easiest ways to support a healthy growing environment is to...
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Flower Power in the Garden - Help pollinators with these tips | National Garden Bureau

Flower Power in the Pollinator Victory Garden

Pollinator GardeningSeptember 20, 2021gail
Flowers are some of the most important food sources for pollinators, but there’s more to it than planting flowers and waiting for pollinators to appear. A successful Pollinator Victory Garden achieves a balance between two seemingly disparate principles: plant diversity and plant sufficiency. Your garden needs to have a wide variety of plant species in...
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Thank Goodness 2021 is the Year of the Monarda! - National Garden Bureau

Thank Goodness 2021 is the Year of the Monarda!

Flower Gardening, Perennials, Pollinator GardeningJanuary 14, 2021diane
The Year 2020 Has Made One Thing Clear... We Have A Great Deal To Look Forward To! I suppose one has to brain dead or living in a cave to not realize that the year 2020 was not quite normal. What with politics, storms, and a pandemic, it is not surprising, given the shutdowns and...
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Bee-Friendly Shrubs & Perennials for your Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Bee-Friendly Plants Create a Perfect Pollinator Garden

Perennials, Planting Tips, Pollinator GardeningJune 9, 2020gail
Adding bee-friendly shrubs and perennials to your garden. Bee-friendly and Butterfly-friendly plants continue to pique the interest of gardeners... whether they’re edible growers hoping to lure pollinators to boost the veggie harvest, ornamental gardeners who adore the interest butterflies and bees provide to the landscape or naturalists who wish to help feed and protect bees...
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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 GardeningMay 28, 2020gail
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...
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10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator GardeningApril 22, 2020gail
10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0  Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...
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Attract Pollinators with Container Gardening - National Garden Bureau

Attract Pollinators with Container Planters

Container Gardening, Pollinator GardeningJune 19, 2019gail
No yard? No problem! Container planters can help you play a part in attracting pollinators even if you don’t have a yard! In the United States one-third of all agricultural output depends on pollinators, we need pollinators and pollinators need us! Help the pollinators do their job by planting pollinator-attracting plants in your containers. Create...
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Grillscaping Love Your Food, Love Your Space - National Garden Bureau

Grillscaping: Grow Food You Love in the Space You Enjoy

Foodscaping, Planning and Design, VegetablesJune 11, 2019diane
We’ve all heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” Nowadays we also want to know more about the sourcing and production processes used to grow the vegetables and fruits that we consume.  Are they organically grown?  How far did they travel to get to me?  One way to know the answers and have control...
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Bring Butterflies to your garden

Bring Butterflies Back to Your Garden

Pollinator GardeningJune 19, 2017gail
Butterflies...Delightful Visitors in your Garden! There is no more delightful decoration for a garden than nature’s own--butterflies. On a warm sunny day these visitors provide color and motion that doubles the pleasure of gardening. How fortunate for the gardener that it takes very little effort to make the yard attractive to butterflies! Butterflies will visit, and...
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Basics for Creating a Pollinator-Friendly Garden

Backyard Habitat, Planning and Design, Pollinator GardeningFebruary 17, 2017shari

Every year, one week in June is designated as National Pollinator Week. In an effort to perpetuate a great cause, the National Garden Bureau is following up that event with some specific tips on how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Pollinators can include bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, bats, and beetles. Since the first three are the…

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