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Preserve Your Cut Flowers with This Simple Recipe
Your Valentine’s Day bouquet will last a little longer if you use a preservative. Try this easy-to-make recipe.
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Bodega Blooms
Don’t dismiss the corner deli’s bucketed blooms—let this workshop inspire a second look at standard bodega cut-flower offerings.
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Grow a Flower Cutting Garden - ONLINE
Learn about varieties of flowers suited for New York’s climate, and how to plan for a full and glorious season of cut flowers. Discover the amazing variety of annual and perennial flowering plants suited for NYC’s hardiness zone, as well as preferred seed and plant and seedling sources.
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Cut-Flower Care: How to Make Fresh Flowers from Your Garden Last Indoors
The flowers in your garden can and should be cut periodically. Doing so encourages more blooming and allows you to bring beautiful bouquets into your home. Get advice on how and when to cut garden flowers how to keep your arrangements fresh.
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Sustainable Cut Flowers: A Buyer’s Guide
I consider myself a socially responsible consumer, and suddenly I just wasn’t sure what I was buying into when I purchased cut flowers. I thought these issues would be worth exploring, so I traveled to Ecuador with a tape recorder, a camera, and a definite bias.
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How to Prune Your Vines and Other Climbing Plants
A primer on when and how to prune climbing plants so they flower beautifully, stay healthy, and remain under control
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Lemon Grass: A Very Versatile Herb
Lemon grass is a tropical perennial, native to southern India, but cultivated outdoors in practically all tropical regions. In the United States, it is root-hardy to about USDA Zone 9 (California, central Florida) where it goes dormant during the mild winter.
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What Are Gardeners Up to in the Winter?
In the winter season, BBG’s outdoor gardeners are busy planning, organizing, pruning, and mulching.
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Zinnias—If You Plant Them, Butterflies Will Come
These cheerful annuals are enjoying renewed popularity as more and more colorful, compact, and disease-resistant varieties appear on seed racks.
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Starting an Herb Garden in a Small Outdoor Space
If you’ve got access to an outdoor space with some direct sunlight you can create a small herb garden. Here’s how to start one from scratch or expand from established plants
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Growing Vines Successfully
Vines are a diverse group of plants. Most are easy to grow and require little care; however, a basic knowledge of their cultural needs is important for success in your garden.
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Waking Up Your Garden for Spring
Wherever you garden, there are plenty of tasks to tackle in preparation for the growing season.
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Wildflower Fever!—A Selection of Unusual Natives
Nowadays, I fill my garden with beautiful wildflowers. Besides increasing biodiversity in and of themselves by augmenting the shrinking populations and gene pools of native species, they provide a valuable source of food for insects and birds.
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Cape Fuchsias—Perennials With Punch
Native to South Africa, cape fuchsias (Phygelius species) will add verve to your borders with vibrant, warm-toned flowers that bloom for months in summer and fall.
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Milkweeds—Easing the Plight of the Monarch Butterfly
Modern agriculture has made much of the U.S. farm belt inhospitable to Monarchs. In the East, industrial, commercial, and residential land use is gradually effacing the habitat that supports them. This is where gardeners come in. We can make a big difference by growing the plants that are most important…
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An Herb Garden for Tea Time
In our frenetically paced modern lives, making time for growing herbs and savoring herbal infusions may seem like an anachronism, a quaint throwback to a more unhurried age. But we need such time-tested tonics, places to slow down and enjoy nature’s bounty, seemingly more than ever.
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Elegant Epimedium—Foliage and Flowers of Subtle, Sophisticated Beauty
You’ll never fall in love at first sight with Epimedium the way you might swoon over roses or peonies. But once you get to know this genus—and appreciate its reliability, durability, and sophisticated good looks—I guarantee you’ll enjoy a long-lasting relationship.
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The Best Crabapple Trees for Your Garden
Experts recommend these ten Malus cultivars for their beautiful blooms, lovely fruit, and disease-resistance. Among the showiest of spring bloomers, crabapples are also wonderful foliage plants in summer and fall, and they provide beautiful fruit displays late in the season.
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Make Your Garden a Haven for Insect Diversity
Create a habitat for pollinators as well as the amazing array of less beloved, but still important, insects out there.
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Overwintering Potted Plants
Protect your outdoor container garden so that your plants will survive the winter.
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Growing Chile Peppers
You can grow chile peppers just about anywhere in the United States and southern Canada, as long as you prepare your soil, nurture your seedlings properly, and provide the plants with their basic needs.
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Spring-Bulb Design Primer
Plan a gorgeous bulb display with snow drops, daffodils, tulips, fritillaria and other flowers that blooms in series as the season unfolds.
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How to Create an Herb Garden in the Shade
Some herbs thrive in the shade. Learn more about them so you can grow a wonderful herb garden even if your garden has very little sun.
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How to Garden on a Budget in NYC
Gardening can be surprisingly expensive, especially when you’re starting from scratch. Here are some tips.
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Planting and Maintaining a Buffalograss Lawn
Buffalograss (Buchloë dactyloides) is sustainable, water-wise alternative to conventional turf that needs no mowing. Learn how to establish and care for a lawn using this native grass.
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Drought-Proofing Your Garden: Essential Water-Saving Strategies and Plant List
A drought emergency is a time to take steps to substantially reduce water use in the garden. Here’s some tips on how to conserve water with drought-tolerant plants and longer-term solutions to your garden more compatible with natural precipitation patterns.
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Nine Keys to Plant Disease Prevention
Prevention is the key to plant-disease control. This is true whether a disease is infectious (involving host-parasite relationships between plants and pathogens such as certain fungi, bacteria, or viruses) or non-infectious (involving disorders such as nutrient deficiencies or winter damage).