Great Dallas Nurseries and Garden Centers

Texas has a thriving nursery and garden center industry. It is sometimes thought of as just a dry area with oil pumps and tumbleweed, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Texas is the third largest market in the United States for "Green Industry" sales. The range of climate zones and huge variety of native plants and wildflowers make the state bloom with color in the early spring. In fact, the Texas hill country is awash with color and rushing streams during the months of March and April. Further South, the Austin and San Antonio regions and the coastal area show yet another micro climate zone with some semi-tropical plants flourishing in abundance. The Dallas/Ft. Worth region is lucky to have many excellent nurseries and garden centers that can supply plants region-specific for this area or provide services and products that are grown elsewhere.

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Calloway's Nursery is a huge concern that runs about 30 nurseries in the Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Antonia area. It also has other stores in the Houston area under the banner, Cornelius Nurseries. Today it is the largest garden center retailer in Texas. It sold its growing operation in 2003, however. This is the place to go for trees, shrubs, fertilizer and landscaping materials. Their specialty is bedding plants and special bulbs. Competitors are Home Depot and Lowes. While these larger stores may have a wider range of products they do not specialize as much nor do they have the quality of staff. About half of Calloway's employees are "certified nursery professionals." Calloway's has specials on a regular basis and their pricing is quite reasonable. To get these specials, just click on the web site and print out some of the coupon specials.

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Nature Hills Nursery is not like Calloways. It is not nearly as large as Calloways, but they have fantastic selections of a huge range of plants from trees, shrubs, grasses, perennials, annuals, vines, ground covers and spring bulbs. This nursery prides itself on educating their customers about products suitable for growing in their particular climates. This nursery is actually locatd in Omaha, Nebraska, but it supplies the Dallas area throught their web-based product offerings and products that many of the local Dallas garden centers can't provide. Right now they're offering a 25% savings on over 300 nursery perennials right now. Their web site is set up so that people can click on their climate and zone, plus sun exposure and shade of bloom desired. It's a fascinating web site. They guarantee the plants Nature Hills Nursery, Inc. Phone: (402)934-8116

Covington's Garden Center and Nursery one of Dallas' largest retail and wholesale nurseries, is located at 5518 Liberty Grove Road, Rowlett, TX 75089/ 972-475-5888 eMail: ndunham@covingtonnursery.com They have 18 acres of some of the most quality plants in the metro-plex area. This is a great place for bargain hunters too since they have a half-price shot and a preferred customer's discount card. The retail selections include the best Monrovia stock. They have a new stock of Japanese Maples now in 17 different varieties, and are really pushing the new nursery-grown herbs. The half-price house is really a good idea because it encourages people to buy fresh plants so that the nursery can keep replenishing their stock with fresh new plants. Since Covington's is also one of Dallas' largest landscaping suppliers and companies, they give a lot of help with people who want some guidance for building their own gardens. Stop by and give them a look.