Does your yard look bare? Do you need a large amount of plants, trees and shrubs because you know that just one or two won’t be enough? If you are looking for wholesale plants such as ferns, native tree, ground covers, etc. DNT Nursery has all you are looking for.

TN Nursery is a Tennessee based wholesale nursery grower that strives to make all their clients happy and keep coming back year after year. They offer a wide assortment of Large B&B trees, such as River Birch, Maple, Dogwood and Bradford Pear trees.

If it isn’t trees that you are looking for they also have a wide variety of perennials, ferns, groundcover, flowering shrubs and woody perennials to take care of all your landscaping needs. They have numerous kinds and colors of Lilacs, Azaleas and Burning Bushes to make any yard décor look wonderful. If you are looking for ferns they have a great selection of Tennessee Ostrich and Christmas Ferns too!

At TN Nursery they will take care of all your landscaping needs in one location. They offer root stock and bare root stock as well as large wholesale landscape trees to help you create that magnificent landscaped yard which many will swear has been done by a professional landscaper rather than yourself. DNT Nursery also specializes in ground covers, liner stock, native plants and also evergreen conifers.

TN Nursery takes pride in their products because they want every customer to leave fully satisfied. They take pride in their high quality products and make sure that you get quality products directly from the grower so that you can complete your perfect scenery for your yard. They want you to be proud of your yard and take pride in your home so that all your friends can say wow! What professional company did they get to landscape their yard, and you can sit back and say me! Go check them out at www.tnnursery.net .

Growing Native Plants – Vol 3, 1973

You rarely see butterflies in suburbia. Why is that? Are we just too busy to see them, or do the butterflies just not like living near people?

It’s a matter of habitat. The typical manicured lawn with grass in the parkway, bushed beneath the windows, and the occasional vegetable garden in the back yard is just not a good place for butterflies to hang out. But, if you were to grow a woodland garden populated with a variety of native plants that flower throughout the growing season, you would attract butterflies from miles around.

Where would the butterflies come from? How would they know to come looking for your garden? Though they seem delicate and ephemeral, butterflies are actually tough little critters. The monarch, for example, winters in Mexico, and summers in the Plains states, as far North as Minnesota. They can even migrate to Canada. If you grow enough of the right stuff, they will come.

Choose a plot for your woodland garden. A good place would be right under a tree with filtered shade. Beneath a Honey Locust, an Ash, or a Pin Oak would be a pretty good choice. Black Walnut is not so good because the roots excrete a chemical that is poisonous to many plants. Norwegian Maple is also not ideal—- not only is it a non-native invasive species in North America, it also just gives too much shade.

Your plot should be substantial. Think of this as an opportunity to reduce the amount of lawn you need to mow. The plot border should be at least five feet from the central tree trunk on all sides. You will need to install edging all along the border to prevent turf from invading the garden. Putting down brick edgers will clearly delineate the garden from the lawn.

Now, you need to eliminate the grass within the garden plot. You can dig it up, spray it with a surface herbicide like Round-Up (read and follow the instructions and be careful not to kill your tree), or you can cover the grass with a layer of wet newspaper and a layer of fabric weed barrier for a year.
Once the grass in the plot is dead, it should be a bit easier to dig up. You could also lightly roto-till the grass into the ground, but be careful of tree roots if you do this.

Here is a list of species that work well together to attract butterflies, as well as other pollinating insects, and many seed-eating birds:

Elymus virginicus (Virginia Wild Rye)
Hystrix patula (Bottlebrush Grass)
Chasmanthium latifolium (Northern Sea Oats)
Aquilegia canadensis (Wild Columbine)
Agastache foeniculum (Lavender Hyssop)
Echinacea pallida (Pale Coneflower)
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
Eupatorium purpureum (Sweet Joe Pye Weed)
Eupatorium fistulosum (Tall Joe Pye Weed)
Eupatorium coelestinum (Mistflower)
Monarda fistulosa (Bergamot)
Rudbeckia hirta (Blackeyed Susan)
Helianthus strumosus (Woodland Sunflower)

Don’t leave out the grasses! They naturally support the otherwise spindly flowers and fill out your garden.
You should be able to find mail-order suppliers of plants and/or seeds for these species by doing an online search for “prairie nursery”. If you’re lucky, your local nursery may carry some of them, too.

Early spring and late fall are the best times to plant these species. The plants may appear dead, but it’s more likely that they are dormant. It may take them up to a year to break dormancy, so don’t dig them up.

Native seeds require special handling. Follow your seed supplier’s instructions—- they will probably have certified your seeds as “PLS” (“Pure Live Seed”), so no special preparation will be necessary. With native plantings, it’s typical to mix a few seeds in with a lot of moistened vermiculite and a bit of sand. The seed/vermiculite/sand mixture is then broadcast across the prepared bed. Then you can spread straw or straw pellets over the seeds and either walk over the seed bed or use a roller to make sure the seeds have good contact with the soil.

Seeding in late fall tends to succeed more with native seeds because it’s closer to their natural germination conditions, conditions for which these native species evolved. In the wild, these seeds are distributed and lie dormant over the winter, during which they are exposed to moisture and frost which cracks their hulls open preparing them for spring germination.

Establishing a woodland garden requires patience and a large initial investment of time and effort. After the first couple of years, however, it will almost take care of itself, requiring only a yearly cutting down in late fall. Ideally, a controlled burn every two or three years is recommended, but that’s not feasible for most homeowners.

Your woodland garden will also become a mecca for butterflies. Not to mention songbirds, Native American bees, and perhaps even the occasional hummingbird.

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You probably never thought that your garden could be greener, without adding more water. But these days everyone’s talking about eco-friendly ideas, and yes, your home garden can be part of the solution. The most obvious eco-element is trees, of course. Not only do trees add shade and remove carbon dioxide from the air while producing oxygen, they also help prevent soil erosion.

Planting fruit trees and vegetable gardens also adds to local food sustainability. You can hand pick apples and lettuce from your own yard instead of buying fruit that was shipped thousands of miles to get to your plate. Fresh, locally grown food will have a higher nutritional content than food that was picked and then shipped, and you know which chemicals, if any, it’s been treated with. If you can’t eat the entire harvest yourself or don’t have time to pick it all, offer your trees to local food banks or a deserving friend.

Consider adding native plants to your garden. Using non-invasive species can attract (or repel) wildlife and birds, resist fires and be designed specifically for areas prone to flooding or drought. This is especially important for chronically dry areas facing regular water restrictions but as the national population increases, water use will become a bigger issue in all communities.

Done right, landscaping can reduce your air conditioning bills and cut access noise. Using shrubbery to shade your windows or cut chilly winds means you can lay off the thermostat, saving you fuel and money.

Fresh mulch will suffocate weeds, make your garden easier to handle and keep the soil moist. This cuts down on water use and cut down on the need for harmful chemicals to the environment. There are a number of different types of mulch available including bark or wood chips, newspaper, sawdust, grass clippings, hay and straw. These are natural, biodegradable materials and may be otherwise considered a waste product.

Many cities are already thinking about banning pesticides; why not ban them from your yard? Consider letting some of the pests be, and investigate natural pest control for the critters you absolutely can’t live with. Your yard will be safer for all the bugs, birds, children and pets that visit it.

Start a compost to fertilize your garden. Not only will this reduce your household waste and return nutrients to the soil (composting is Mother Nature’s recycling), your fantastic, healthy plants will be the envy of the neighborhood. It doesn’t take much to green your garden – just a fresh way of looking at things and you’re on your way.

Home and garden events
Native plant seminar free in Port Orange Learn how to attract butterflies using native and waterwise plants at a free seminar, “Butterfly and Hummingbird Gardening with Native Plants,” from 10 to 11:30 a.m. today at Full Moon Natives, 1737 Fern…

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