2019 Garden Superstars - New Plants and Products for Spring

The best way to reverse those winter blues is to get back in the garden. To get you excited for spring, Garden Media Group has released its 2019 Garden Superstars for Spring. This year’s list features delicious edible plants, safe garden food and innovative products.

These Garden Superstars will transform any patio or backyard and make gardening easier

Grow your own homegrown nutritious blueberries. This spring try two new varieties from the Bushel and Berry® collection that are perfect for warmer climates and self-pollinating. Blueberry Buckle™, a quick growing blueberry that stays compact with white bell-shaped flowers that appear in spring and produce sweet, dark blueberries. Southern Bluebelle™ will be a charming addition to your patio or landscape. This petite blueberry plant produces plump, juicy blueberries in late summer and displays bright red, emerging foliage that turns emer­ald green as it matures. For more information on these and other berries, visit www.bushelandberry.com.

Summer Bulb of 2019. Get blooms all summer in fiery shades of red, orange and yellow with Crocosmia. Requiring little care, they combine well with ornamental grasses to create a beautiful scene in your yard. Crocosmia is a hummingbird magnet, makes outstanding cut flowers and can provide a vivid splash of color to containers. Plus, they’re deer resistant too! Visit your local garden center to find more summer flowering bulbs. For more information, visit Bulb.com.

Small Space Gardening. The new Collapsible Watering Can and Collapsible Watering Bucket from Centurion were created with storage and mobility in mind. Their heavy duty, non-porous silicone material offers superior strength, while the foldable and detachable parts allow freedom to use these products in any space. The Watering Bucket is perfect for gardening, boating and camping while the Watering Can doubles as a storage container. For more information visit CenturionBrands.com.

Better fruits and veggies. The Espoma Company’s new Tomato! Liquid fertilizer and Berry-Tone granular fertilizer provide just the right nutrients to these timeless favorites. Tomato! comes in a colorful 8 oz. bottle with a user-friendly cap that measures just the right amount of plant food to encourage plump and juicy tomatoes. For berry gardeners, Espoma’s new Berry-tone provides a long-lasting, slow-release of nutrients. Feed plants in early spring to encourage growth and more berries. Find Berry-Tone and other Espoma products at your local garden center or at Espoma.com.

Grow a Hanging Garden. Fresh herbs in the kitchen? Yes, please! This rustic herb kit from Bloem comes with a real wood back and comes with three 6” Ariana planters in black. Write the name of your favorite herbs on the planter holders, and grow vertically! Perfect for growing herbs indoors so you can enjoy the freshest ingredients all year long! Find this and other beautiful containers at BloemLiving.com.

For more exciting new plants and garden products for spring 2019, visit gardenmediagroup.com.

Garden Goods Prize Pack

Friends! The Garden Media Group has 3 wonderful garden gift packs to give away to our loyal readers, friends and followers! In 50 words or less leave a comment on this blog about why the special man in your life deserves our GMG Prize Pack.

This prize pack includes:

• Spot Gone! The natural, organic way to remove urine spots on your lawn! Keep the dog, lose the spots!



• Centurion loppers to clean up your space



• JAZ rose spray concentrate - a natural way to promote vigorous roots, shoots and blooms!



• The Biltmore Nursery - A Botanical Legacy by Bill Alexander. The history of the Biltmore Nursery and a complete 1912 Biltmore Nursery catalog.
  

Leave your comment below before June 9 - and you could be one of 3 lucky winners! Winners will be announced on June 10.

On a side note - I am getting ready for the Association of Professional Landscape Designers conference in Cleveland June 13-17. I will be tweeting, facebooking and blogging throughout the week. :) Kathleen at GMG

APLD Members Quoted in the Wall Street Journal

Recently, the Garden Media Group connected two wonderful professional landscape designers with the Wall Street Journal -- for a story on winter damage and how to repair your landscape. Laura Kuhn of Massachusetts and Susan Murphy of Wisconsin - both certified professional landscape designers with APLD were included in the print and online issues of the Wall Street Journal. Here is the link to the story As a side note.... I was talking to the reporter about APLD, I mentioned roof damage to my own house -- and poof! I (well really, my old roof) was included in the story too.

I am still high on hellebores. I have tons of pictures to share. But that can wait for another time. Did winter hit your garden hard? Tell me about it! If you read the WSJ article linked above - check out the pictures and let me know what you think!