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6220 Old LaGrange Road
Crestwood, KY 40014

502-241-4788

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Tuesday-Friday,
10am-4pm

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Winter workshop spotlight: “Who’s Living in your Garden? An Insect Collecting Series” on Monday, February 1 from 6-7 pm.

This free virtual event is an overview for an upcoming four-part series that will allow you to gain a greater understanding of which insects are living in your backyard and what the biodiversity says about the plants growing there.

In each session of the four-part series, Sayde Heckman, Yew Dell’s Garden Manager, will lead discussions and hands-on activities for insect identification, insect collecting, insect pinning, and insect display, giving you an in-depth opportunity to take an insect inventory of your specific setting. These will be in-person sessions with limited capacity. Series pricing will include field guides, collecting and display supplies, and live plants.

Participants must attend this virtual overview in order to register for the series.

Follow the link in our bio to sign up! 🪲🪳🕷🐞🦋

A burst of color in the glass greenhouse to help beat those winter blues.

Photos taken by volunteer photographer, Ellen Sears.

Looking for a jumpstart to your career in horticulture? Apply for our year-long Horticulture Apprenticeship Program! The program is from May 2021-May 2022. Apprentices are provided housing in a historic cottage on-site.
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Swipe to learn about a few of the many benefits this program offers.
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We are accepting applications now until March 1, 2021.
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Send your application to jobs@yewdellgardens.org
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Want to learn more? Follow the link in our bio!

“Winter should not be considered as only negation and destruction. It is a secret and inward working of powers, which in spring will burst into visible activity.” ~Henry James Slack

Photo taken by volunteer photographer, Ellen Sears.

#tbt Frosted Secret Garden circa 1960s.

Theodore Klein, founder of Yew Dell nursery, pruned a hornbeam tree in the shape of a circle. The ring he used to train the tree still resides in the Secret Garden today. It’s hiding in a cluster of hollies growing at the end of the garden near the cabin.

Photo 2: Same view, Martha Lee Klein & 'Zeezee' late summer, 1969.

Photo 3: Secret Garden early summer, 1960.

Photo 4: Secret Garden today.

Photo 5: Metal ring hiding in the hollies

#TheodoreThursdays

Historic photos taken by Theodore Klein, and provided by his granddaughter, Holly Cooper.

Welcome to #MeadowMondays

In 2018, Yew Dell staff, working with Dropseed Nursery, put together a plan to turn the former pasture below the castle into a 3+ acre native grass and wildflower meadow to support local pollinator populations. Following the removal of mostly invasive exotic species, the area was seeded with a mix of grasses and forbs.

The process has been lengthy and tedious. For about a year, the meadow was nicknamed the "Dead-o." Then in 2020, some of the native plants began popping up, but there were still invasives. This phase was nicknamed the "Not Yet-o." This year, we anticipate seeing more native blooms and grasses.

As we enter an exciting phase of this project, we’ve asked volunteer photographer, Ellen Sears, to begin weekly documentation of the pollinator meadow:

“Winter is a perfect time to discover a new way of seeing the world around you. A winter meadow lets us take a closer look at the skeletons, forms and functions of the plants. In order to ensure that seeds will survive, they must be carried away (dispersed) from the parent plant. Some seeds have hooks on them that allow them to attach to animal fur or clothes. Some seeds are able to float in water. Some are light and have wings or thin hairs that allow them to be carried away by wind. Take a moment to ‘see, think, wonder’ what adaptations the seeds have for dispersal.” -@mrsearstimberwolves

Ellen is teaching two sessions of Smartphone Nature Photography on Jan 27th and Feb 6th. Follow the link in our bio to register 🌿

Plants have personalities, too... #agave

It’s time to cut back your hellebores! Our horticulture staff has been cutting back the hellebore’s old foliage to make way for the bare flowering stems.

“Gardening with hellebores is a pure pleasure. Their evergreen foliage looks good all spring, summer, fall and well into winter. Around the first of January, our crew at Yew Dell gets out there and cuts back all the old foliage that has started to fade. The bare flowering stems then emerge and put on a spectacular show for several months. New leaves emerge as the flowers fade and provide a nice ground covering the rest of the growing season.

But the real kicker with Hellebores is that when the weather hits its yo-yo best - 70 degrees on Tuesday and 7 degrees on Friday – they just take it in stride. Sure, the blooming stems will droop and hang limply in response to a frigid night. But come the next warm up, they stand back up and continue the show.”

Excerpt from Yew Dell Executive Director, Paul Cappiello’s article “Hellebores: the perfect plant for crazy weather” originally published in the @courierjournal on March 17, 2017.

Imagine being in the forest with thousands of monarchs gathered overhead.

Join Tavia Cathcart Brown, Executive Director of Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve, for a presentation on her travels to the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico, the home of the butterfly reserves where millions of monarchs gather annually after a long southern migration.

During this time when travel plans are cancelled and the butterfly reserves are difficult to visit, a first-hand account of what it’s like to be there is the next best thing.

Monarchs Overwintering in Mexico - Virtual Workshop
Thursday, February 4th from 6-7:30 pm. Admission: $20/$30- Yew Dell Members/Non-Members

To sign up for Tavia’s workshop, follow the link in our bio. 🦋

Photos taken by Tavia Cathcart Brown.

We hope you'll join us in welcoming our new Horticulture Apprentice, Silas Zoeller, who joined our team earlier this week!

Silas is a Louisville native, and went to school at UK graduating in May of 2020 with majors in Biology and English as well as a minor in Plant and Soil Science. "I'm excited for the opportunity to work at Yew Dell because I think that with plants being all around us all the time, knowledge of them is crucial, and sadly not very widespread. I'm looking forward to being able to amass more knowledge of everything around me and also help in spreading that to the public and increasing interest in really knowing what is going on in all the green that surrounds us on a daily basis!" #newtoyew

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