Straughan Nursery

06/17/2026

06/17/2026

Something around here is liking the rain! Our plants!

06/12/2026

Stop by and see us tomorrow we're gonna be open from 9am-1pm and if you're in the Livingston area stop by and see up at VWatts Trade Market!

06/11/2026

06/11/2026

Need a little color in your life, we may have what you are looking for! Stop by and check us out!

06/05/2026

Something ate your plant last night. The leaf has holes. Your first instinct is to spray.

The shape of the damage tells you exactly who did it — and most of the time, the answer is "leave it alone."

Ragged irregular holes with a silver slime trail — slugs. They feed at night. Perfect circles cut from the leaf edge — not a pest at all. That's a leafcutter bee, and she's cutting pieces to line a nest. She's pollination infrastructure. The leaf grows back. She doesn't.

🌿 The one that got me: the white squiggly trails inside the leaf, the ones that look like someone drew on it with a pen — that's a leaf miner larva feeding between the two surfaces of the leaf. It looks alarming. It's cosmetic. The plant doesn't care.

Skeletonized leaves with only veins remaining — Japanese beetle. The one case where hand-picking actually matters, because they feed in groups and attract more.

Clean chunks from the edge with no slime trail — caterpillar. She's a butterfly or moth larva. She's also what the chickadee is feeding her chicks right now.

Eight damage patterns. The leaf already told you who was there and whether it matters 🐾

06/03/2026

We got some more Japanese Red Maples in and also got some pretty Ruby Falls Weeping Redbud trees! Both add that beautiful red color in your yard or landscape!

06/03/2026

info on azaleas

Summer Azalea Care

Spring growing conditions can affect summer performance. Much of the South was overly wet this spring—this means that dry spells of a couple weeks in the early summer months will be more stressful on newly planted as well as established azaleas. Azaleas in full sun will show more summer stress when cultural practice are not right than azaleas in partial sun to partial shade. Maintaining optimal soil moisture levels during the summer and fall months. Keep roots cooler in the summer months with a good layer of pine straw or similar mulch. Azaleas should have been fertilized in the spring after flowering. Do not fertilize in the summer months. Avoid pruning after late June. Problems with flower bud development, loss of green foliage color (bluish-gray color) and azalea lace bug presence are azalea stress indicators.

06/03/2026

9 Kitchen Scraps you can Regrow in Water 🌿💧

06/02/2026