Floral

What are home gardeners choosing for their mixed containers? Burpee Home Gardens® knows! This year, more than 6,100 combos were crafted virtually through the My Garden Designer mobile design tool, revealing consumer trends and preferences for gardening habits, color choices and variety selection. …

Say "carnation" and some gardeners are likely to think of their grandmother's flowers and immediately move on. Not so fast. As a recovering plant snob, I have come to appreciate the great variety now available from this venerable genus. Far from being a pedestrian flower, some of the less common varieties are real showstoppers. That doesn't mean they have stopped being reliable and tough, long-blooming plants, but the range in color and type of flower would knock your grandmother's socks off. …

The United Kingdom’s Garden Retail Award for this year’s ‘Best New Plant’ has been bestowed upon the impressive, innovative Foxglove ‘Illumination Pink’ Digitalis. …

The www.justchrys.com website has been entirely refurbished as of the beginning of November. Both content and appearance have been radically renewed, based on a new vision which the owners have for the web portal. …

The first ever genuine glow-in-the-dark plant has just been launched, breeder Amigo Plant asserts. The star-shaped ‘Glowing Star In The Dark’ starts emitting light at night time and glows like a true heavenly body, according to the promotional material which the breeder from Heerhugowaard in The Netherlands has put out.

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