GTroanwsfLorimkeinga Pro: 11 Award-Winning Plants for Foolproof Gardens

(BPT) - A new year means a new garden! It’s time to start thinking of what you’ll cultivate indoors and outdoors in 2024. Whether large or small, in sun or shade, there are many choices of plants to fill your indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as the tools that make things easier.

Looking for inspiration? Check out The National Garden Bureau’s 2024 Green Thumb Award winners. These plants and products are perfect for both beginner and experienced gardeners and will make your garden a success this year and beyond!

1. Hydrangea First Editions Eclipse 4. Centaurea The Bride

Centaurea The Bride is a large annual featuring pure white flowers with a gorgeous feathery texture scented with sweet vanilla. The bushy plant grows 2 to 3 feet tall and works well in containers or beds, a must-have for any pollinator garden.

5. Cucumber Quick Snack

Winner of both the Professional’s Choice and People’s Choice awards in the edible category, the Quick Snack Cucumber produces deliciously crisp and sweet cucumbers in a matter of weeks. In just a month or so, you can eat handfuls of cocktail-sized cucumbers fresh off the plant or add to a vegetable platter or salad. You can enjoy cucumbers indoors and out with Quick Snack because the blooms do not require pollinators to produce fruit. An excellent way to enjoy homegrown vegetables all year long without an outdoor garden space.

Be a more successful gardener with this new boxwood! Better Boxwood¬AE is the first collection of blight-resistant boxwood resulting from two decades of revolutionary

of four varieties, including Babylon Beauty Heritage and Renaissance. Skylightis the faster growing of the collection with medium green leaves, suitable for pruning into shapes, in mass plantings and medium hedges. Hardy to zone 5.

9. Agapanthus Blackjack

to gardens everywhere. Lush green hues pair with vivid, tropical purples to create a truly unique petunia. The variety creates a calming backdrop of natural color that pairs well with foliage plants. Large blooms grow on plants 12 to 18 inches tall.

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mix is produced by wood waste that Hardy in zone 8-11 and can be grown as an would otherwise be burned or sent to landfills, annual in all other zones. Named the Royal releasing carbon into our atmosphere. Horticultural Society 2023 Plant of the Year.

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aeration and drainage for both indoor and outdoor plants.

Try these exciting new plants and products to make your gardening life easier this year,

you more successful than ever! To learn more, visit NBG.org.