A Little Bit of History...

Brunswick Nurseries was incorporated in 1976.During that year the nursery was mapped out and planting began; slowly at first with just a few acres. The Garden Centre opened during the spring of 1981, with 2 employees, a tiny (150sq.ft) sales office and a display area for ornamental trees & shrubs, featuring plants grown at our own nursery & imported.

Brunswick Nurseries, Circa 1981

The company began landscaping in 1983, with a ½ ton truck and a crew of 2.Growth has been slow & steady, reaching present day levels of 12 acres under cultivation, as many as 30 employess during the peak season, & 4 vehicles designated for landscaping. What began as a small nursery that had a tiny retail outlet, has become a multi-faceted green industry company, with one of the largest displays of ornamental plants in New Brunswick.

Brunswick Nurseries has always been interested in finding new (& sometimes better) ways of doing things. We feel very strongly that our garden centre is unique & innovative. To help achieve those ends, we travel far & wide, looking at new ideas & bringing them home. Several members of our staff have visited gardens, nurseries & garden centres in England, Holland, Ontario & the US, as well as attending a multitude of seminars and workshops.

We were brave enough to implement our own style of common sense farming methods in our nursery. We no longer use herbicides, chemical fertilizers, insecticides or fungicides in our fields. Instead we rotate crops of green manures, incorporate compost that we collect from yard waste
Mountain O' Mulch

& our animal farm, and topdress with fish fertilizers & lime. Other techniques involve selecting resistant varieties of stock, practicing manual weed control (remember the hoe?). A lot of these techniques are not considered modern, but they do go a long way to protect our resources, and to put people to work, something we feel is very important.

We are proud of what we do, and the industry we work in. It's evident in the people we hire, the work we do, the children we teach, and the fact we are active in industry Asssociation (NB Hort Trades Association) work. In fact to quote friend and colleague Kirk Brown, who is based in Pennsylvania "what other profession has the privilege of doing God's handiwork?"
I would encourage you to come out and see all this first hand.

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