Our Goal at Fundy Beauties is to provide matured field grown specimens of hardy perennials. We aim to provide plants that will give a good bloom showing in the year of purchase and better performance year by year. We believe that an outdoors grown plant that has survived a winter at our nursery in Noel, NS will have a superior performance and chances of better longevity than much greenhouse grown stock.

The cultural practices here are quite low tech and equate to a "green" approach by current terminology. Our day to day weeding, cultivating and harvesting we do with hand tools by choice. We bow to mechanization on the land only to the use of a Troybilt roto tiller for ground preparation before planting. Of course delivery of our product and pick up of supplies requires the use of a trusty minivan. All in all, the carbon footprint of our operation is extremely low.

A huge effort goes into selecting growing practices that require NO use of chemical products. Some of our practices are more stringent than required to attain "Certified Organic status". However to this point we have not found "Organic" certification a necessity for our operation. This allows us to use more readily available commercial (cheaper) fertilizer ingredients such as alfalfa meal, soy bean meal, blood and bone meal, or a neighbours barnyard manure without "Organic certification". Since we are producing an ornamental plant not intended for human consumption, any possible measurable chemical contamination from the uncertified ingredients we do use is something I choose to live with over the increased expense and problems of sourcing "certified Organic" materials.  I have been a "back-to-the-lander" since the early 1970's and in that time "Organics" has come a long way, but progress has been slow and as spasmodic as the overall economy. I will and do use "certified Organic" products when practically available and at a price not too out of step with regular commercial offerings.

We thus avoid using regular chemical fertilizers and as well certainly would not consider using chemical pesticides or herbicides for any payoff.

The patches of mixed plantings that we grow enable Nature to look after any insect problems that might occur since we have no such problems turning up. The biggest penalty we pay with this style of operation is WEEDS!!  We battle and loose with weeds and live with the consequences. On the plus side when we pot up a plant without weed competition, they are "some happy campers" and reward us all with their great performance.

Our practice is to sell or ship out the best plant we have available at the time of your order. Lesser plants can always spend another year in our nursery rows to attain the quality plant we like to sell.