Your National Gardening Association weekly news for April 1, 2017

National Garden Month
It's National Garden Month! We're so excited to be celebrating gardening this month! Each week we will feature new and fun activities, ideas and articles that will help get you and your friends excited about gardening. Share it with your friends at NationalGardenMonth.org.

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Recently popular question and answer from our Q&A Archive: Little trees sprouting all over my yard
"We bought a house in Oct. Besides the overwhelming amount of Creeping Charlie, I've noticed that there are little trees sprouting up all over. I can't pull them up. The stubs are about an inch or two tall and I'm assuming the roots go down quite far. Can you let me know what I can do to get rid of both of my unwanted plant life? Can I zap the trees with a pesticide or do I dig them up?" - Click to read the answer

Articles you may enjoy:

Tulip Tips

"The jewels of the spring bulb garden, tulips are available in a huge range of flower shapes, sizes, and colors. "

Quick and Easy Spring Greens

"After a long winter of less-than-fresh vegetables, the thought of homegrown spinach, lettuce, mustard, and arugula makes my mouth water. "

Strawberry Essentials

"All the basic information you need to enjoy strawberries in your garden."

Crocus

"A sure sign of spring, crocuses have low-growing, colorful, cup-shaped flowers that are a welcome sight in garden beds and lawns."

The Lovely Dogwood

"The beloved flowering dogwood tree, found in home gardens across the country, is just one of the many types of dogwoods. Some species are native to the United States."

Leeks- Too Good Not to Grow

"Leeks have an unfair reputation for being complicated to grow. These delicious, mild-tasting, non-bulbing onion relatives are in fact easy to start from seed and, with some simple techniques, produce long, white stalks that taste great in traditional leek and potato soup, braised in wine, or chopped in casseroles and risottos."

Irises: Growing and Caring For

"Irises are grown throughout the world. Perhaps the most commonly recognized is the bearded iris with thousands of registered cultivars."

The most popular images last week from our plant database:

Photo of African Daisy (Osteospermum)
By Calif_Sue:

Photo of Rose (Rosa 'Octoberfest')
By clcroses:

Photo of Dutch Iris (Iris 'Miss Saigon')
By GreenIris:

Photo of Miniature Dwarf Bearded Iris (Iris 'Boink')
By Lestv:

Photo of Allium (Allium multibulbosum 'Silver Spring')
By KarenHolt:

Photo of Florist's Gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa)
By Paul2032:

Photo of Lily (Lilium 'Descant')
By Roosterlorn:

Photo of Rose (Rosa 'Chihuly')
By clcroses:

Photo of Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica 'Halliana')
By beenthere:

Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'White Eyes Pink Dragon')
By Hemlass:

The most popular Landscape Photos from last week:

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

Photo by DaisyRyder:
Photo by GrammaChar:
Photo by Paul2032:
Photo by FAIRYROSE:
Photo by GrammaChar:
Photo by DaisyRyder:

Noteworthy acorn tips given this week:

3 people gave for post #1399762 in "Do you have Hybridizing Goals?" by auratum

3 people gave for post #1398724 in "Daylily of the Day: Happy Returns" by SpringGreenThumb

3 people gave for post #1400294 in "Do you remember what first got you interested in gardening?" by Yardenman

3 people gave for post #1396427 in "Iris of the day" by touchofsky

2 people gave for post #1399354 in "Banner for March 28, 2017 by TBGDN" by TBGDN

2 people gave for post #1399338 in "OT ~ The Porch Swing" by ShakespearesGarden

2 people gave for post #1398103 in "March 2017 Butterflies, Moths & Larva" by wildflowers

2 people gave for a photo of Rose (Rosa 'Octoberfest') by clcroses

2 people gave for a photo of Miniature Dwarf Bearded Iris (Iris 'Boink') by Lestv

2 people gave for post #1401159 in "Lilies species & hybrids" by Australis

The most active threads this week:

Subject OP Area Replies
How Many New Daylilies You Have Coming This Spring?kousaDaylilies forum47
And the winners of the March 2017 raffle are.....!daveThe March 2017 Not-A-Raffle-Raffle!40
Do you have Hybridizing Goals?auratumLilies forum26
Daylily of the Day: Happy ReturnsbeckygardenerDaylilies forum22
Mixed L. henryi crossesRoosterlornLilies forum20
Northern Daylily Fans: Which evergreens do well for you?LarryRDaylilies forum19
Semp Identification?chadu82Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum18
indoor plants helpVictoriaLAsk a Question forum17
Raised beds/sinking dirtBarbaleeAsk a Question forum16

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National Garden Month
Reminder: It's National Garden Month! We're so excited to be celebrating gardening this month! Each week we will feature new and fun activities, ideas and articles that will help get you and your friends excited about gardening. Share it with your friends at NationalGardenMonth.org.

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