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Feb 1 –
A mid-winter's dream: Noack Rosen's Flower Carpet rose gardens

The first day of Blah-bruary … er, I mean, February. The perfect day to revel in garden pictures that are exactly the opposite of...

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Jan 19 –
Winter 2012 - a time for dreaming, planning - and pruning!

 

It sounds weird, but one of my favorite times of the year, gardening-wise, is January....

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Jan 8 –
2012 kids' grow kits offer exotic edibles, appealing characters and multichannel marketing

Looks like kids gardening is going to be bigger than ever in 2012, by the looks of all the yowza grow kits marketed to them on the ...

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Canna Tropicanna Black (blooms are Pantone 2012 Color of the Year - "Tangerine Tango")
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Pack A Punch In Your Garden With Pantone’s 2012 Color Of The Year

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Dec. 16, 2011 – Sometimes life calls for a little attitude. And you’ll definitely find it in “Tangerine Tango” – the Pantone Color Institute’s®2012 Color of the Year.

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Small water feature designed by Zaretsky and Associates, a landscape design-build firm in Rochester, NY. Image courtesy Zaretsky and Associates.
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Garden Trends Report 2012

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Nov. 4, 2011 – Forget all those doomsday predictions about 2012. From the garden world’s perspective, life will continue to be good – with gardeners saving themselves water, hassles and misspent money. At least that’s according to several savvy garden experts and a leading garden trends survey.

Water-wise plants, products

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New For 2012: Strawberries And Cream™, Blueberries And Cream™ Gift Hydrangeas

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Sept.30, 2011 – Hungry for indoor summer color in the spring?

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Next Generation Flower Carpet roses (Pink Supreme)_curb appeal
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Deer? Steep Slope? Small Space? These Plants Can Solve Your Landscape Challenge!

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July 25, 2011 – Do deer think your garden is their personal salad bar? Do you have a slope so steep and dry, the plants fry in the sun and wash out in the rain? Are you big on gardening but small on space?

No matter your landscape or gardening challenge, there’s a plant that can help. And here are just a few from Tesselaar:

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Flower Carpet Pink Supreme in landscape 1
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Win Easy Care Roses On ‘Your Easy Garden’ Blog

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June 15, 2011 – Three lucky gardeners will receive a collection of all three colors of Next Generation Flower Carpet groundcover roses – offering supreme heat and humidity tolerance – as part of a “Great Gardens” contest being held on Tesselaar’s Your Easy Garden blog this summer.

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Download the news release in Microsoft Word format: Tesselaar News Release - Win Easy Care Roses at YourEasyGarden - Blog holds contest - 2011-06-15.

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Bluestorm agapanthus in container
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Gardens and containers go sustainable in 2011

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May 25, 2011 – This year’s hot garden trend? Eco-friendly, water-wise, sustainable gardens and containers.

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Festival Burgundy cordyline in container gardens and pots with other plants
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Anthony Tesselaar To Speak At International Plant Trials Conference At RHS’ Garden Wisley

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May 16, 2011 – Plant trials: Where are we headed? That will be the topic of a presentation given by Anthony Tesselaar, cofounder and president of international horticultural company, Tesselaar Plants (developer of Flower Carpet® roses, Tropicanna® cannas, Volcano® phlox and more) at the Read more…

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Tropicanna_Leaf_backlit closeup
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Cannas Get Extreme Makeover: Foliage Edition

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April 30, 2011 – Cannas – once the tired, tall fillers relinquished to the back of the bed – have now become the “it” plants in containers and landscapes.

After all, you can hardly pick up a glossy garden magazine these days without seeing their large, colorful, tropical leaves adorning entryways and patios.

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Download the news release in Microsoft Word format: News Release - Tesselaar Canna Extreme Makeover 2011-04-29.

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Tropicanna container recipe 2 (2)- Tropicanna Black (top); salvia farinacea (middle left); Dichondra argentea 'Silver Falls' (bottom)
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Easy, Colorful, Tropical Container Combos? We’ve Got ‘Em!

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April 13, 2011

Craving eye-popping garden container combos?

It couldn’t be easier with the following recipes, designed by Tesselaar Plants in its ongoing efforts to make gardening easier.

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Download the news release in Microsoft Word format: Tesselaar News Release - Tesselaar Plants Container Recipes - 2011-04-12 (PDF with images); Tesselaar News Release - Tesselaar Plants Container Recipes - 2011-04-12 (Word document with no images).

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Bonfire Begonia Choc Red
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Bonfire® Begonias, Festival™ Burgundy Cordyline Star In Latest Online How-To Gardening Videos

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March 23, 2011 – Two red-hot garden plants, Bonfire begonias and Festival Burgundy cordyline, star in Tesselaar’s latest online how-to gardening videos by Dave Epstein of Growing Wisdom, a popular weekly, online, how-to video show for home garde

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Download the news release in Microsoft Word format: News Release - Tesselaar Plants New Gardening Videos 2011-03-22.

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