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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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Beautiful Blooming Bulbs

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Blooming Buttons Birthday Card

Pick a bloom to match the personality of your birthday buddy and make this clever card as quick as a wink.

Cut Flowers

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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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Gorgeous Spring-Blooming Woodland Flowers

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Why Won't It Bloom?

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Our Readers' Best Blooms

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Your Favorite Spring-Blooming Bulbs

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Best Crabapples for Your Yard

… green by summer. Blossoms are deep, rosy pink … 8 The pure white blooms of Lancelot crabapple … delicate clear pink blooms cover the arching … pure white semidouble blooms of Madonna are long lasting. Blossoms are followed by bronze …

Flower Garden Ideas for Your Landscape

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