Nursery News

At Yew Dell we're all about plants!

Check back here for the latest articles about the latest goings-on in the Nursery and Greenhouses from our Director of Horticulture and Facilities, Jacob Stidham.

Transplant These Plants Now

Farmers are out cultivating fields and sowing seed in early spring. Nurseries and garden centers overflow with color on opening day.

Out with the old, in with the new to us

If you have been to the gardens for a visit lately, you will have seen some hustle and bustle around the nursery.

What is the value of a garden?

Is it the shade that the trees provide? Maybe it is the habitat the plants provide for all the critters that call it home?

What you put in the container matters

Plants just can’t be the best they can be in a container if they don’t have the right stuff for their roots to grow in.

Notes from the Nursery – Summer 2023

Sayde calls us boujee for using shade cloth in the nursery to provide our plants a happier environment. Boujee is a slang term for the act of living a fancy,

Letter from the Nursery – Spring 2023

Any parent loves to see their child grow and develop into their own person. Sometimes it is awkward to see them turn into little carbon copies of you, but as

Notes from the Nursery – Winter 2023

I haven’t known life without greenhouses since nearly back in the 1900s! I’m going to start using phrases like that as I get older and more gray hairs start showing

Notes from the Nursery – Fall 2022

Sometimes great, unexpected things happen when you set off to do something. When I went off to study at Purdue, I was confident I would graduate with an engineering degree

Notes from the Nursery – Summer 2022

“The only thing that stays the same is everything changes.” This is a line from the song Time Marches On by Bobby Braddock. Any way you look at it, no

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