Your National Gardening Association weekly news for October 1, 2016

From the editor's desk...

We are delighted to announce that we have completely re-designed our website! Access to the thousands of pages of great gardening information is now much more accessible, and the site works beautifully on mobile devices like phones and tables.

Members can now also customize the Garden.org homepage to show their favorite items of the site in the order they choose.

If you haven't been to our site in a few days, come check it out! We think you'll be delighted.

"The Hum of Bees is the Voice of the Garden" -- Elizabeth Lawrence
Photo by @luvsgrtdanes

Gardening Ideas from other NGA Members:

Use Your Garden To Decorate for Fall

By Paul2032
September 30, 2016
Use Your Garden To Decorate for Fall

These simple and inexpensive ideas will look great from harvest to October and will add color and beauty to your porch.

The most popular images last week from our plant database:

Photo of Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris 'Adelaide Addison')
By robertduval14:

Photo of Torch Lily (Kniphofia rooperi)
By kniphofia:

Photo of Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Hidden Kisses')
By tveguy3:

Photo of Tickseed (Coreopsis 'Red Chiffon')
By Patty:

Photo of White Bat Flower (Tacca 'Nivea')
By mellielong:

Photo of Angel Trumpet (Brugmansia suaveolens)
By purpleinopp:

Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Pink Aloha')
By Sscape:

Photo of Rose (Rosa 'France Libre')
By sunnyvalley:

Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Big Sur')
By daylilly99:

Photo of Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'High Energy')
By tveguy3:

The most popular Landscape Photos from last week:

Click an image to view the names of the plants in each photo.

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Noteworthy acorn tips given this week:

5 people gave for the idea "Use Your Garden To Decorate for Fall" by Paul2032

4 people gave for post #1281647 in "Do you remember what first got you interested in gardening?" by conniepr27

4 people gave for post #1287207 in "September 2016 website redesign is complete!" by gardenglory

3 people gave for post #1283974 in "Banner for September 28, 2016 by dirtdorphins" by dirtdorphins

3 people gave for post #1284198 in "Bee Friends And Other Garden Guests - Chapter 5" by Gleni

3 people gave for a photo of Nemesia (Nemesia fruticans Innocence® Opal) by foraygardengirl

2 people gave for post #1286535 in "September 2016 website redesign is complete!" by mellielong

2 people gave for post #1281546 in "Re-bloom Cultivars" by LarryR

2 people gave for post #1284258 in "Daylily of the Day: Awesome Blossom" by blue23rose

2 people gave for post #1282806 in "September 2016 Butterflies, Moths & Larva" by GrammaChar

The most active threads this week:

Subject OP Area Replies
September 2016 website redesign is complete!daveSite Talk forum429
NGA changed colors!Mayo62Daylilies forum62
Tree mail. Gone?? Any way to retrieve it?lauriebaslerSite Talk forum38
And the winners of the September 2016 raffle are!!daveThe September 2016 Not-A-Raffle-Raffle!31
Navigation bar covering some of the posters info in threadsAustralisSite Talk forum23
New gardener ! I love my plants. . wintering is scary..PamelaLynn77Ask a Question forum23
Seedling ChatspringcolorSempervivum and Jovibarba forum20
Starting Japanese iris seeds - Help!LestvIrises forum20
Kevin Vaughn Hybridizing Clinic April 28 & 29, 2017valleylynnSempervivum and Jovibarba forum20

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