Author: National Garden Bureau

Written By: Lorraine Ballato Author of: Success With Hydrangeas: A Gardener’s Guide 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 […]

Salad greens that you can grow in your garden are an opportunity for culinary creativity. Most greens can be served raw, wilted, blanched, sautéed, or grilled. Curiously, salad got its start not as a dietary staple, but as an aphrodisiac! We know this because leafy relations to modern romaine are depicted in ancient paintings as sustaining Min, […]

Peanut butter and jelly … macaroni and cheese … Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Perfect combinations make life a little happier. Just like favorite flavors and power couples, your garden can benefit from great combinations, too. Who says veggies need to be relegated to the backyard? Beautifully blending veggies, fruit, herbs, and flowers means you can show […]

Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, plants “breathe” in the carbon dioxide and release oxygen. We are perfect partners with plants. While we have officed at home, more and more of us have felt the benefits of houseplants. Filling our home office with undemanding plants we’ve understood more fully the calm they can […]

Originally appeared in the Nation Garden Bureau Destress, embrace tranquility, and journey to enlightenment with a Zen garden Are you having a hard time channeling your inner Zen? Peace and tranquility may feel in short supply these days, but gardening elevates mental health and provides a great escape from relentless news cycles and the stressful state of the […]

Originally appeared in the Nation Garden Bureau Why Grow Peperomias? Peperomias are part of the Piperaceae plant family which contains a number of delightful and popular houseplants. Commonly called “Radiator Plant”, there are more than 1500 species of Peperomia with most of them hailing from tropical Central and South America. Peperomia plants are grown for their […]

Originally appeared in the Nation Garden Bureau Is the weather cold and gloomy outside, with your garden hibernating under a blanket of snow? Are you dreaming of summer veggies and browsing garden catalogs to help quell the winter blues? There’s nothing better for blustery weather and SAD attitudes than the pleasure of seed starting. While it […]

Originally appeared in the Nation Garden Bureau 5 Ways to Enjoy Salad Greens! Salads have been a raw and healthy staple since ancient Greece (Greek salad anyone?), yet many people grow bored of the same tired salad bowl over and over. While it’s true you can spice up your ordinary salad by adding fresh fruits, vegetables, and […]

Originally appeared in the Nation Garden Bureau What’s the difference between a new gardener and an experienced one? The experienced gardener has killed way more plants, the saying goes. That truism speaks to the fact that gardening is a highly trial-and-error venture – and one where some plants are just going to struggle and die no matter […]

Originally appeared National Garden Bureau Ask The Experts about Poinsettias! Few plants are as iconic as the poinsettia. The eye-catching blooms are a holiday tradition around the world. But the blooms aren’t a flower at all, they’re actually the leaves, or bracts, of the plant. Poinsettia are native to Central America, and in 1825, those stunning red leaves captured the attention of the […]