Bloom

Fill your home and garden with easy-to-grow blooms. These flowers add color and cheer to your garden and landscape.

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Add beautiful blooms without a lot of maintenance to your garden this summer with easy-growing, summer- blooming shrubs. Here are some of the best.

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Long-Blooming Rose and Perennial Garden Plan

This formal circular rose and perennial garden puts an emphasis on fragrance and extended bloom season.

Blooming Valentine Pots

Show your friends and family how much you love them by making this sweet Valentine's Day gift. But be prepared for some hugs and kisses in return!

Share Photos : Decorating with Quilts:Spring Blossoms

Original design based on my own inspiration photo taken at Olbrich Botanical Gardens. My first landscape quilt designed in a class taught by Natalie Sewell, nationally recognized landscape quilter. Raw edge applique embellished with oil pastels and sharpie markers, machine quilted.

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Get Your Orchid to Rebloom

Bring on the new bloom ! You can renew a fading orchid by pruning in just the right place. The perfect snip can bring you weeks of new blooms . Take a look at our inside scoop on making your plant put on new color.

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grow. They're not seen as being terribly hardy. In fact, orchids only bloom once a year unless you know the secret. The normal bloom cycles about 3 months, so once you the flowers beginning to fade, you wanna take your clippers and you're gonna snip right above the node right here. Now, this is gonna seem painful to do this because they are beautiful flowers you are just gonna be chopping off, but this will actually force the orchid to send out a secondary shoot of new blooms , and this extra shoot should give you blooms for about another month or two, almost doubling your time to get to enjoy your orchid. Some bonus blooms to help the orchid's reputation.

Bring Blooming Branches Inside

Cut a handful of branches from your winter or early spring garden and bring them indoors. Then use our handy instructions to force them into beautiful bloom . Our tips work for lilacs, forsythia, and other flowering shrubs.

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ahead a little. The branches can take up to three weeks to bloom . Now, these apple blossoms look stunning on their own in a vase or you can mix them with some other flowers as a more traditional bouquet.

Late-Season Color

Find out how easy it is to have late-season color and blossoms in the garden all the way until frost. Check out these great perennials that will create fall fireworks.

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in the late spring. That'll make the plant sturdier and have more blossoms . I've saved my favorite fall perennial for last, goldenrod. One of the last big flower shows of the year has come from

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Your Favorite Spring-Blooming Bulbs

… offer charming, cup-shape blooms in colorful shades of yellow … cheerfully from ferny foliage. They bloom in springy shades of pink … freesias for their beautiful blooms . Freesias grow well in containers … can be forced for summertime bloom in cooler regions. Freesias …

Editors' Picks: Favorite Fuss-Free Plants

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Front Yard Flower Power

… by a colorful bed of blooming annuals, it looks great … along the foundation. Blooms planted in a cottage … bulbs fade, later- blooming perennials will take … a riot of other early blooming plants. Annual flowers … for a colorful mix of blooms . The bright stucco wall …

Pastel Wedding Bouquets

… and-yellow alstroemeria blossoms , light pink chrysanthemums … well with the sparkling white blossoms in this bouquet. Create coordinating … arrangements with a few white blooms . --Photographer and floral … the bouquets from backyard blooms . Mixed roses and greenery …

Easy Flower Arrangements to Make for Mother's Day

… present she can plant outside by putting a blooming bulb inside a vase (even a simple can … boots. Don't worry -- these hearty blooms can be out of water for a few hours without … this mini arrangement of cut flowers blooms with cheer and is sure to put a smile …

The Most Beautiful Spring-Flowering Shrubs

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