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Water Gardening Indoors
Learn how to grow aquatic plants indoors in containers. Using the proper right techniques, mediums, and plant choices, you can create a lovely, soothing water garden in your home.
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Growing Chile Peppers Indoors
It's a challenge to grow chile peppers indoors. Like tomatoes, they need an environment that's warmer and brighter than most homes. However, growing chiles indoors is a worthwhile project if you don't have a garden.
By Susan Belsinger -
Succulent Bonsai: Capturing the Spirit of the Desert
Succulents make interesting and unusual additions to bonsai collections. Bonsai practice can also contribute much to our knowledge of succulent species.
By Susan Amoy -
Have a Happy and Eco-Friendly Holiday
Is a fresh tree more sustainably than an artificial one? Where should you buy the tree? What should you do with it after Christmas? Read on for the answers to these questions and more!
By Rebecca Bullene -
Identify Your Christmas Tree
Do you have a Douglas-fir or a white spruce? Don't know? Our tree key can help you figure it out.
By BBG Staff -
The Best Care for Healthy Trees
Learn how to protect your trees from pests, disease, and storm damage.
By Christopher Roddick -
Tough Natives for Tender Tree Beds
Brilliant orange butterfly weed, cheery black-eyed Susans, and frilly coralbells are native New Yorkers strong enough to survive—and even thrive—in the challenging environment of a city tree bed.
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Gardening Resilience
A pioneering community garden is taking root in Gowanus.
By Claudia Navas -
Birds of Brooklyn: Northern Mockingbird
Mockingbirds haven't always been common in Brooklyn, but they are now. Why? An invasive species of rose has something to do with it.
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Garden Apprentice Program (Video)
This video blog from New Learning Times offers a snapshot of BBG's Garden Apprentice Program.
By BBG Staff
