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.

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

A Letter 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

Letter from the Nursery – Spring 2023

A 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

Notes from the Nursery – Winter 2023

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

Notes from the Nursery – Fall 2022

Notes from the Nursery – Summer 2022 Sometimes great, unexpected things happen when you set off to do something. When I went off to study at Purdue, I was confident

Notes from the Nursery – Summer 2022

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.

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