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About the nursery |
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Please call ahead to visit. Madrone Nursery is open by appointment only.
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Coming Up on the Calendar (updated 04/12/09) We are continously collecting and growing the plants that will make your landscape come alive. However, availability often depends on the weather, successful pollination of flowers, or the cycle of acorn or nut production from a particular species. This is why we don't always have a constant inventory of a particular plant. Check here for the latest updates Some of our recent collections are already in the production cycle and will be ready in the coming months and years. This Spring we will again have young Italian Stone and Aleppo pines ready for your landscape. The pawpaws are looking good, these native shade trees have fruit that tastes like a cross between a banana and papaya. To add to a tropical look, Dan's latest tree introduction, "MachoVerde", is a Retama/Texas Paloverde hybrid that is colorful, fast growing, and freeze resistant too. It is a good time for maples - we have alkaline adapted Japanese Maples that Dan took on as a personal challenge to prove that these seed grown maples could learn to live in our Hill Country soil and water. They are ready now and we also will have a new crop of our very popular five gallon native Southern Sugar Maples ready soon. We also have a limited quantity of one gallon Barbados Cherry, Turk's Cap, and Eupatorium species to bring in the butterflies.Keep checking back in the wildflower section, Dan has about twenty new species coming along in one gallons, including five species of penstemon and four species of Silphiums. Madrones After so many years of disappointment, we're getting excited about a seedling madrone crop coming along for later this Spring. Please don't call Dan and bug him about them, he just wanted to let you know that he was doing his best to give them a good start.They still have a long way to go. Rare oaks and more A limited quantity of two unique and handsome oaks are ready in five gallon containers. The Gray Oak (Quercus grisea) and Silver-Leaf Oak (Quercus hypoleucoides) were collected on Dan's Davis Mountain trip three years ago, both of these oaks rarely make acorns. We also have some rare Vasey Oak in this crop too. We also have the beautiful Weeping Juniper from the Big Bend area in five gallon size - a perfect living Christmas tree to establish in your yard. Walnuts galore - later this year we will have Black Walnuts, Plateau Walnuts and Little-leaf Walnut ready for your landscape. These always attract a variety of wildlife.
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Bunchgrasses - durable and beautiful Right now our robust one gallon Prairie Cordgrass, Indian Grass, Bushy Bluestem, , Lindheimer Muhly, and Deer Muhly in one gallon containers are ready to go. Succulents/Palmitos This spring we will have several new species of West Texas yucca to help your landscape deal with this upredictable Texas weather. Dan found some real beauties on his Fall 2008 collecting trips so stay tuned. Now is a good time to come pick out your Amole Plant, they are getting ready to bloom and developing their unique and distinctive "freckles". Trees Dan is hard at work planting a new crop of "Sanderson" Mexican Redbud, Golden Ball Lead Tree, and Anacacho Orchid. They won't be ready for a while but are on the way. More Montezuma Cypress are coming along also. Vines Look for Snapdragon Vine and Coral Honeysuckle in late Spring or Summer 2009. |