Are you thinking about starting a home garden? We found ourselves thinking about having a garden every time spring came around and now we do. We wanted a home garden long before we had the space to grow one. Of course you need to decide what kind of garden you want first, we chose both flower gardens and a home vegetable garden.

When deciding on the kind of garden you want you should think about the beds, will they be raised beds or boxed raised beds, or even containers like we used when we first started.

Jenny started with flower gardens in the places we didn’t have space for a vegetable garden, but we did use containers to grow tomatoes, but mostly we only had flowers.

Jenny is a petunia person so we had them growing out of every little plot of dirt we could find. Now we grow a lot more than just petunias but they are still her favourite.

Now we have a lot of perennials that start popping up every where in our yard as soon as the snow melts down to a bare ground. It’s great because it just does something for us when we are sick and tired of Old Man Winter.

I was never able to take pictures before my heart attack because my hands shook too much all the time. Not sure why they stopped shaking after my heart attack, must be one of the meds I take but now I can take pictures. Anyways it’s a real treat and I take pictures constantly now.

If you have been wishing for a garden then get one started. You can start with pots like Jenny and I did and grow for there. Once you start though the urge gets even stronger each spring.

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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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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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Image via Wikipedia Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health

1. The essentials must always be given major consideration.

Your flower garden must have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any lack of these basic necessities will greatly affect the health of plants. Water the flower garden more frequently during dry spells.

When planting bulbs, make sure they go at the correct depth. When planting out shrubs and perennials, make sure that you don’t heap soil or mulch up around the stem. If you do, water will drain off instead of sinking in, and the stem could develop rot through overheating.

2. Mix and match perennials with annuals.

Perennial flower bulbs need not to be replanted since they grow and bloom for several years while annuals grow and bloom for only one season. Mixing a few perennials with annuals ensures that you will always have blooms coming on.

3. Deadhead to encourage more blossoms.

Deadheading is simply snipping off the flower head after it wilts. This will make the plant produce more flowers. Just make sure that you don’t discard the deadhead on the garden or mildew and other plant disease will attack your plants.

4. Know the good from the bad bugs.

Most garden insects do more good than harm. Butterflies, beetles and bees are known pollinators. They fertilize plants through unintentional transfer of pollen from one plant to another. 80% of flowering plants rely on insects for survival.

Sowbugs and dung beetles together with fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms are necessary to help in the decomposition of dead plant material, thus enriching the soil and making more nutrients available to growing plants.

Other insects like lacewings and dragonflies are natural predators of those insects that do the real damage, like aphis.

An occasional application of liquid fertilizer when plants are flowering will keep them blooming for longer.

Always prune any dead or damaged branches. Fuchsias are particularly prone to snapping when you brush against them. The broken branch can be potted up to give you a new plant, so it won’t be wasted.