We have a few local nurseries here in Moncton and the surrounding area but when it’s too cold to get my butt out the door I like being about to find what I want online.

A great spot to start looking online for your trees, plants, shrubs, roses and so much more is at Nature Hills Nursery, Inc..

A little about Nature Hills Nursery. Nature Hills is a gardening nursery that offers an extensive selection of live plants, seeds, bulbs & gardening accessory products. Our most popular products include trees, shrubs, fruit trees, perennials, & bulbs.

Be sure to take a minute and order their free catalog. It will be sent right to your door so you can sit in your most comfy chair while you scan all the great products available.

We bought the home we live because we saw it and loved it. The strange thing is that we saw the potential for flower gardening even though the previous owners had mowed down anything and everything they could to make the property look well kept but in the process they mowed down so many great flowers. It took a couple of years to see what we actually had growing in our yard.

Now that we see all the flowers that we have from bulbs it makes us want even more in other areas of our yard. Nature Hills is a great place to order your bulbs.

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How does one create a butterfly garden?

Butterfly gardening is a type of gardening that uses many different types of plants to attract butterflies. Delight your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but do take the time to learn how to create a safe habitat for your butterflies.

We don’t have our own cats but we get a lot visiting from around the neighbourhood. If you have a cat living at your home, beware because they may seem like they are only playing but they kill butterflies.

How you plan the look of your butterfly garden is of course your choice but there are a few things to think about first.

Typical points to consider are the size of your garden and the types of flowers and plants you want to grow. When designing your butterfly garden you are going to want a look that is appealing to you, just make sure that it containes plants that butterflies are attracted to.

It is important to find out which plants and flowers will attract the species of butterflies. that live in your area. This information can be found at the local library.

There must be water to recreate the type of enviroment that butterflies love. A birdbath will look attractive and keep the butterflies up off the ground, away from stray cats or mischievous puppies. You could always hang a shallow dish from a tree or maybe even attach it to a tree, I know this works well.

As with any garden it is really important to choose the colors of the plants wisely for your butterfly garden. Remember that attracting butterflies is easy with the right plants, it is the “looking good” part that is hard so make sure your garden meshes. Butterflies are attracted to those flowers that have nectar rather than pollen, like honeysuckle, milkweed, summer lilac, Valerian, daisies, Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium), Purple Coneflower, Yellow Sage, day lilies and lavender.

Some people find it helpful to draw and color a layout of their butterfly gardening plan to see what the finished product would look like. Keep in mind that vibrant colors like red, yellow and orange will really stand out and may even seem showy. These colors have a greater impact against a strong green background. Cool colors such as blue and purple are soothing and toned down and would work better with a white contrast to create the look of freshness and brightness.

Columbine /Aquilegia

Every year since we bought our dream home we have been finding flowers growing we didn’t even know were here. That’s pretty cool.

The previous owners were both military and had no time for flowers so they just mowed everything down so when we moved in there were no flowers. We bought this place because we saw the potential.

After buying the property and the lot next door a friend told me the original owner was once her grade three teacher. She also told me that the yard used to be filled with flowers and shrubs and was the best looking property around.

We hope to eventually learn what we need to know to bring it back to it’s original beauty.

Our Gorgeous Columbine

To the left is a Columbine flower that we found hiding in a corner somewhere. Then we found another one in the front yard near the steps, so we moved it to the side of our garage.

Now we have found 5 Columbines and moved them all to same spot.

We have one more Columbine, a beautiful white one, growing near the side walk, but it’s under a big pine shrub and doesn’t get much light.

I didn’t know what it was last year, which was the first year we saw it growing. I didn’t want to move it while it was in bloom so we left it. I think I will put it right in the middle of the others which are all a pink colour.

Here is a close up the first pink Columbine that blossomed in our yard this spring. It’s amazing how beautiful they are.

We thought they were bleeding hearts when they first started growing this spring but once they flowered I was stuck for a name for these truly breath taking flowers.

Learn more about columbines on Wikipedia: Wikipedia on Columbines.

Jenny loves her Petunias so much that I have always been glad we didn’t have a daughter cause I am sure I know what her name would have been.

She is standing proud over her little patch of newly transplanted Petunias.

I thought this picture was cute. It looks like she is saying a silent prayer for her new Petunias.

It great that she can take a Friday off now and then through the summer. An opportunity to go out for breakfast and then on to McAurthur’s Nursery to see what they have we didn’t see the last time we were there.

We had a nice breakfast at Hynze’s restaurant, just a 5 minute walk from our house. Then we walked to the nursery, a half hour walk, to burn off some of the breakfast.

The goal for the day was to enjoy ourselves and get a few more flowers and some veggies to plant in our gardens.

Jenny took the front of the house and the boxed raised bed where I have my little Clematis growing up some string. I also get the strip all the side of the garage. Better not see any one sneaking a Petunia or two in there.

Like I said at the beginning she loves petunias more than so many other lovely flowers. So she planted a few dozen of in this particular bed so she could see them from the kitchen. I will be able to see them from my office window as well, along with my Clematis of course.

One of Jenny’s Petunia Patches

More to come as they start to sink roots and make themselves at home.

Sometimes it is difficult to achieve colors for all seasons. There is no iota of doubt that everyone would love to see a garden full of blooms through out a year. You have to plan well for your garden to have colors for all seasons. You have to go into every detail of the flowers. Like when is their bloom time? What kind of soil they need? What is their range of height? Do they require full sun or partial sun and partial shade? When you come to know all the above details you can plan your garden in such a way that they have colors throughout.

Lets us see all the ways which will help us to keep our gardens in color all season:

1. Deadheading

Removing dry blossoms is the easiest and simplest way to keep your plants blooming. Annuals particularly will profit from an occasional deadheading. Flowers actually produce seeds. Once seeds are formed the plants have no reason to bear flowers any more.

Many recurrent flowers will also bloom again if deadheaded. Exclusions are recurrent that bloom on one tall flower stalk. They are the astilbe or iris. Also perennial flowers that require a chilling season to blossom are also exclusions to recurrent reblooming.

2. Shearing

Deadheading cannot be applied to flowers that have multiple buds on their flower stalks. Deadheading becomes a nightmare in that case. In this case they can be sheared unto 1/3 of the plant. This you can do till all the buds fade. This rejuvenates the plant. New fresh leaf and lots of new flower buds will appear. The plants retrieve quickly. Early bloomers seem to be draggled by the middle of the season.

3. Pruning

A cunning way to sustain the perennial blooms is to clip the plants in steps. Try to divide the plant into three sections like the front, center and back. As soon as the plants grow about 6-8″ tall, you can cut the front and center by about 1/3 to 1 / 2. Now let the plant grow again to 6-8″ tall and now you have to prune the front section in the same dimension.

This type of trimming will ensue plants turning into 3 levels and so it can bloom in sequence. The rear part blooms first and as it fades the center portion blooms. Finally the front part will bloom. The front section actually grows very tall and this helps in hiding all the withering plants behind it.

4. Re-Seeding

To extend the bloom of annuals you can re-seed quick growing annuals. This will be about 4 weeks soon after the initial seeding.

5. Feeding

Plants spend a lot of vigor in flowering. The more they blossom, the more food they demand. So take care and keep on adding good soil, water them properly and add fertilizer.

6. Produce colorful foliage

Flowers come and go but the foliage remains. Sprinkle the beds in your garden with a few shrubs and include sprinting annuals. You will have colors through the season.

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