A Look at Hillcrest Nursery
your gardening and landscaping projects
Inside, you’ll find hand made wood crafts, pottery, bird houses and an assortment of antiques and vintage collectibles along with the garden supplies.
It’s a great place to find an unusual gift for someone. Why buy something mass produced when you can give a lovely plant or something hand-crafted by a local artisan?
The nursery is owned and operated by Dave Dunlap and his father Jim. The nursery has grown every year since it began, and now has 3 greenhouses alongside the main building. Dave & the staff can offer advice and suggestions for your landscaping needs.
The nursery has bulk seed for lawns, different kinds of mulch and soil, work castings…all the stuff you need to make your lawn and garden flourish!
There is also a full selection of hydroponic supplies. Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as perlite, gravel, mineral wool, expanded clay pebbles or coconut husk.
Are all available at Hillcrest
When the mineral nutrients in the soil dissolve in water, plant roots are able to absorb them. When the required mineral nutrients are introduced into a plant’s water supply artificially, soil is no longer required for the plant to thrive. Almost any kind of plant can be grown with hydroponics.
Back in the 1930’s Pan American Airlines had a re-fueling base on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. Pan Am’s passengers were fed vegetables that had been grown hydroponically on the island as Wake Island is a remote and rocky atoll, with no soil to speak of, and it was too expensive to fly vegetables in.
You know it was definitely a different era when a commercial airline company was making sure the passengers got their fresh vegetables!
Drop in to say hello to Dave and the staff soon!
S. Kelley
