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Growing wildflowers is a wonderful idea. Not only because wildflowers provide dynamic and seasonal beauty, but also because they are some of the best pollinator-friendly plants. In fact, if you want to start a pollinator garden, mixing in wildflowers is the surest way to make your garden enjoyable to a large range of pollinators.

Wildflowers Seeds in Bulk

Your first step in growing wildflowers is to buy seeds. Fortunately, there are many bulk seed sources, with some offering special wildflower seed mixes that contain shade tolerant plants as well as perennial plant mixes. You can even create a focused wildflower garden and grow seed mixes that support specific endangered pollinators, such as monarch butterflies.

How to Grow Wildflowers in a Garden?

Growing wildflower in your outdoor garden requires three simple steps:

1. Choose an area that corresponds with the growing requirements and soil type of the wildflowers chosen.
2. Clear any choking grass and weeds from this area and then follow planting instructions on the seed packet.
3. Continue to weed and water your outdoor garden weekly, practicing patience while the wildflowers grow!

How to Grow Wildflowers in Pots?

What if you only have a small balcony or porch but still want to enjoy the beauty of wildflowers?

No worries, you can successfully grow wildflowers in pots! Simply follow these steps:

1. Choose large and deep pots with good drainage, such as this self-draining 10” pot. This will help you avoid root rot and ensure the most room for strong root growth.
2. Fill pots with rich, fertilized soil or an indoor potting mix.
3. Don’t overseed your pot. Start off planting 10-12 wildflower seeds per large pot for starters.
4. Water your wildflowers diligently and make sure they get at least a few hours of sunlight daily.

Don’t hesitate, start growing wildflower today!

By - Olivia Turner

Best Gardening Gifts

One of the silver linings that social isolation and mandatory quarantine brought was more time outside in the garden.

Hundreds of individuals started, or revamped, their home gardens during isolation. Never before had there been such an ideal time to figure out what garden zone you live in, learn about raised garden beds, read helpful garden magazines, or try out those vertical gardening ideas.

And when you start gardening it is hard to stop,

because the pleasures of gardening cannot find any other passion or hobby.  However, you cannot reap these benefits without dedicated time, growing techniques, and the proper gardening tools.

For those who have used this challenging time to connect with their surroundings through gardening, the best way is to support them in this endeavor with the best gardening gifts:

Tool Set

A proper gardener lost without a set of essential tools. Gardening tool sets are nonnegotiable because they offer a complete set of tools to use for a range of utilities. Fortunately, NBU Flowers has your favorite gardener covered by offering the 14-piece, stainless steel. 

Gardening Gloves

All good gardens know that if you don’t have a pair of reliable gardening gloves, you’ll end up going through pair after pair in no time. so Give a devoted gardener a pair of gardening gloves for waterproof durability and the bonus of attachable finger claws for hand digging.

Garden Decorations

No garden is complete without a gnome topped mushroom or a charming fairy house. Browse NBU Flowers’ product page to find the best miniature garden accessories to put a smile on the face of your family’s top gardener.

Focus on the silver lining of this new social isolation with the best gardening gifts,

perfect for all the new and experienced gardeners in your life.

By Olivia Turner

Settled just an hour outside downtown Philly lies the RedBud Native Plant Nursery in Media, Pennsylvania.

This local nursery is dedicated to helping customers build resilient garden ecosystems that aid native fauna. As such, they grow their plants seasonally and offer ideal native woodland, wetland, riparian, meadow, garden, and pond species to select from.

In this article, we will explore their services and highlight some of the superlative programs that RedBud Native Plant Nursery offers for all those living in the Mid-Atlantic region.

To begin, RedBud staff can help you select the best native plants for your soil and site conditions,

as well as assisting the most passionate native gardeners with locating that hard to find native plant.

RedBud also offers knowledgeable native landscape design assistance. This doesn’t just mean listening to your ideas at the nursery and sending you home with suggested solutions, rather, RedBud takes pride in assisting you with finding a local contractor, providing project oversight during installation, and even helping you build a long-term maintenance plan for your native garden installations.

In addition, RedBud offers one-time in-garden consultations or ongoing Garden Support for those in need of support in garden ecology and health. In fact,

RedBud offers these collaborative services until you feel that you are a capable steward of your native home habitat. Ideal for beginner gardeners.

Finally, RedBud Native Plant Nursery hosts monthly Yard Talks for those living in the Mid-Atlantic region at their 904 N. Providence Road Media, PA 19063 location. They also have a website, Facebook, newsletter for devoted gardeners, and an Instagram. RedBud Native Plant Nursery is reachable at 610.892.2833.

Need help finding your own local florist or nursery? Search on NBU Flowers Find Your Florist application for premium florists and nurseries near you.

By Olivia Turner

HOW TO PLANT ROSES- Rose gardening is probably easier than you think. Growing and caring for roses is different from or more difficult than the usual way of growing flowers.

Let’s look at how you can successfully plant roses in the garden.

1. Good conditioning:

Roses need good exposure to the sun for six or more
hours in a day. Expect you are growing roses in an extremely hot area, there is
no need for shade. There is no particular choice of soil for roses, but they need
adequate nutrients to bloom and thrive. Hence, rich loamy soil with a slightly acidic PH level is most ideal. It is necessary that the sight is protected from wind, and that the rose bush is not crowded to ensure good airflow between the plant.

2. Preparing the ground and soil:

The planting hole should be as deep and a little wider than the root ball. Save the removed soil and mix with bone meal or an
ideal equivalent to refill the dug hole after planting. You can add some organic manure or compost if the removed soil is of poor quality. Allow the root to take
hold before adding anything else.

3. Preparing and planting the rose:

Preferably with a glove, gently remove the
rose from its temporary pot. To ensure that the roots take to the ground as soon as planted, you should loosen the roots. Hold the plant from its base and slip the plant from the pot. With removed soil mixed bone meal, you make a mound at the center of the hole. Put in the rose's root and ensure that the graft union is just below the ground level.

4. Watering and caring for the newly planted rose:

Soak the newly planted rosewater and apply mulch up to two inches around the root and base. You continue watering the rose every other day until it starts to send out new growth.

Here are some beautiful rose flowers and bouquets you may give to your loved one-
 

• 12 Red Roses Flower Bouquet
• Magenta/Lavender Bi-Colored Roses Flower Bouquet
•  24 Stems - Fresh Rainbow Roses Bouquet
  
  

Winter Flowers

Winter is commonly thought of as the season without colorful flowers and plant life. In colder parts of the world, it is referred to as the "dead period", in which nothing but white and cold is visible. However, did you know that may winter flowers are perfect for non-winter seasons? This is because most winter flowers are not exposed to much sunlight throughout the winter season, so they thrive in damp and shady areas.

Snowdrops

There isn't a better analogy for family togetherness and comfort in the world of gardening than the winter Snowdrops. This is because these flowers clump together in shady areas to keep each other hydrated. Once they clump together, they create a picture perfect fullness which can make your garden look like a snowy forest trail. For the proverbial cherry on top, the tops of the flowers droop down like little bulbs.

Gardening

Being winter flowers, Snowdrops require minimal effort when it comes to planting. All they need is for the soil to be loosen and then planted with compost or dried manure and granular fertilizer. Make sure to blend the soil and fertilizer together, so there are no clumps. The Snowdrops need the blending of the soil to be able to freely move to clump together with the mother bulb in offsets.

Where To Plant?

Due to the season that these plants thrive in, they require little of the sunlight that seasoned flowers require, but they do require an abundance of rain and general water source to stay hydrated. There is no such thing as over watering when it comes to Snowdrops! One thing to keep in though; Snowdrops are dormant during the warmer Spring and Summer Seasons and go into a sort of flower hibernation during those times. Because of this, you must be very careful to keep from uprooting these petite pretties when planting and maintaining your Summer and Spring flowers. 

MORE WINTER FLOWERS:

1.Honey Suckle

2.Wintersweet

3.English Primrose

4.Viola

5.Camellia

6.Hellebores

7.Pieris Japonica

8.Winter Jasmine

By Neha Kamran