New Varieties Website From National Garden Bureau Now Available
December 30, 2018
Online voting is now open for the Therapeutic Garden Grant Program, which will split $5,000 in grant money among three therapeutic gardens.
Plant classes recognized include bulb crops (tulip), annuals (calibrachoa), vegetables/edibles (beet), and perennials (coreopsis).
Registration is now open for one of the summer’s most popular events for anyone wishing to connect and network with the home gardening industry.
The new site is designed to serve as a home base to drive traffic from NGB’s social media community to one central location.
Marketing resources such as fact sheets, bench cards, and videos are available on the NGB website.
The NGB’s annual grant program, Growing for Futures, recently selected three therapeutic gardens that will receive grants totaling $5,000.
The National Garden Bureau is once again organizing summer vegetables trials this August in California, giving attendees the opportunity to visit with several breeding companies.
For the second year in a row, the National Garden Bureau hosted five popular garden bloggers and writers on a trip to California Spring Trials. Here’s what each of them had to say about their experience.
Five popular garden bloggers will meet the many breeding companies that participate in the California Spring Trials, then blog about the event and the varieties they see.
The event takes place Aug. 24-26, 2016, and will include tours of AAS Trials and Display Gardens as well as local businesses.
During the ASTA Flower & Vegetable Seed Conference, National Garden Bureau and All-America Selections elected new officers and directors.
Following last year’s launch of the National Pollinator Garden Network, groups like the National Garden Bureau and others remind growers that offering pollinator-friendly plants is a great way to keep up with consumer demand.
The grants, totaling $10,000, are through the organization’s Growing For Futures program, which supports the growth of therapeutic gardens across the country.