Your National Gardening Association weekly news for November 21, 2016

News from the gardening community

All-America Selections Announces 2017 AAS Winners

All-America Selections, the only non-profit trialing organization for plants that demonstrate great garden performance throughout North America, presents eleven exciting new AAS Winners for the 2017 garden season. Each of the following varieties was trialed in North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges during one growing season. Each was trialed next to comparison varieties that are considered best-in-class among those currently on the market.

2016 National Gardening Association Photo Contest Open for Entries

It's time for the annual photo contest! The photo contest begins now, and you have until the evening of November 24th to enter your photos. There are 17 categories and you can submit up to 5 photos per category.

Articles you may enjoy:

Pansies for Cool Weather Color

Overwinter your Herbs

Mildew Threatening Columbines

Mums For Fall

Make Use of Fallen Leaves in Your Garden

Gardening Ideas from other NGA Members:

By Newyorkrita November 21, 2016

Collect Curbside Fall Leaves for Free Mulch Each fall the last task to put the garden to sleep is to mulch everything with a thick blanket of fallen leaves. If you are like me, you don't have enough of your own to go on all of your beds. So, I go around my neighborhood and collect the bagged leaves put out by the curb. (127 words - Read the full article)

By Suga November 19, 2016

Recycle ... Reuse Broken items can find a place in your garden. (103 words - Read the full article)

By SarasotaPatty November 17, 2016

Broken Pots, Little Plants, and Some Imagination I have a pile of broken pots that I can't bear to throw away, a plastic container full of garden "miniatures" that I started collecting a long time ago, and lots of "baby" and small plants filling my shelves.Today I stirred in some creativity and it all came together! (284 words - Read the full article)

By SteveandJeannie November 15, 2016

Tomatoes Cozy in Low Tunnel We took a cutting from what we observed to be a cold-tolerant summer 2015 tomato plant and put it fully rooted into a low tunnel in our zone 8b south-facing garden. It was still happy after some 28-degree nights in the beginning of February 2016. (293 words - Read the full article)

The most popular images last week from our plant database:

Photo of Adeniums (Adenium)
By GrammaChar:

Photo of Firewheel Tree (Stenocarpus sinuatus)
By greene:

Photo of Chinese Peony (Paeonia lactiflora 'Festiva Maxima')
By Orsola:

Photo of Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Pond Lily')
By SherriRaye:

Photo of Meconopsis betonicifolia
By bootandall:

Photo of Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Petal Pushers')
By Henhouse:

Photo of Angel's Tears (Billbergia 'Windii')
By TexasPlumeria87:

Photo of Adeniums (Adenium)
By Gerris2:

Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Wild One')
By Sscape:

Photo of Rose (Rosa 'Heritage')
By HemNorth:

The most popular Landscape Photos from last week:

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Noteworthy acorn tips given this week:

8 people gave for the idea "Broken Pots, Little Plants, and Some Imagination" by SarasotaPatty

4 people gave for post #1320611 in "November 2016 Butterflies, Moths & Larva" by LindaTX8

4 people gave for a photo of Meconopsis betonicifolia by bootandall

3 people gave for post #1320880 in "Sharon Brown (Sharon)" by billyporter

3 people gave for post #1318974 in "Bee Friends And Other Garden Guests - Chapter 6" by GrammaChar

3 people gave for the idea "Recycle ... Reuse" by Suga

2 people gave for post #1320116 in "Banner for November 18, 2016 by Lestv" by Lestv

2 people gave for post #1319780 in "Siberian Iris" by vanozzi

2 people gave for post #1320076 in "November 2016 Butterflies, Moths & Larva" by LindaTX8

The most active threads this week:

Some new reviews from the Green Pages:

Check out these numbers from last week:

• 831 members joined.
• 3,382 posts written in our forums.
• 470 photos posted to the plant database.
• 602 plants added to personal inventory lists.