Mexia Nursery & Tree Farm

Getting into the weeds on how to prep soil for gardening

Our minds and shovels are ready for full throttle outdoor planting — but is your soil ready?

What Every Gardener Should Know About Mulching

How to Feed Birds All Year Long

As the seasons change from winter to spring to summer to fall, switch up what you're serving in your feeders to attract more birds to your backyard.

Best-Laid Plans: Kreeky Tree Farm

When a chef and a gardener sprang for seven acres in Pennsylvania, the couple figured they'd slowly acquire animals and plant seeds. Then, a twist of fate forced them to become full-time farmers.

39 fantastic independent nurseries that SoCal plant lovers will adore

Finding your favorite nursery can be thrilling. Here are our picks for the best independently-owned plant nurseries near Los Angeles.

How to help your plants through Oregon’s heat wave

People and plants need care to make it through the coming heat wave without wilting.

Learn to read a nursery plant tag

FALLBROOK - Shopping for new plants for a home can be an exciting undertaking. Nurseries and garden centers are often home to dozens of types of plant species that come in various colors, leaf variations and sizes. Such variety can make choosing plants more fun while also making the process of buying plants a bit complicated, especially for novices...

Signs You Need To Visit A Tree Nursery

Chambersville Tree Farm has one of the largest inventories of Japanese Maples, Crape Myrtles, Roses & Trees in North Texas! Signs You Need To Visit A Tree Nursery

SFPUC Growing Plants in Hospital-Like Nursery to Protect Water Quality

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is trying something different at its new native plant nursery in Sunol. To avoid infecting plants, the botanists here take precautions more akin to a laboratory than a commercial nursery.

Nursery owners worry about asphalt plant, developer says it's not happening

Despite a developer’s reassurances to the contrary, the owners of a longtime Box Elder County nursery worry an asphalt plant might be built next to their property.

The giving tree: Agroforests can heal food systems and fight climate change

Growing numbers of farmers are using agroforestry — integrating tree crops and grazing animals — to create more resilient soil, a diverse range of foods, and even fight climate change.

Work Together To Sell More Plants

My name is Zlatin Etimov. I am 26 years old and from Bulgaria. I have had the chance to travel a lot and visit different countries. Now I am interning for a year through the Ohio program in the U.S. My internship takes place in a nursery in Ohio. The company has a retail business that sells plant products. Even though I am not directly involved in the greenhouse side of the industry, I will do my best to share my personal thoughts…

Master Gardener: Identifying the plant with green and black berries

Plus, here are tips for keeping skunks, and their spray, away.

Help Landowners With Pumpkin Patches and Tree Farms Reduce Their Risk

Hunting, fishing, bird watching, pumpkin patches, and Christmas tree farms are just a few ways Te...

Oregon's nurseries use bug-on-bug tactics to protect high-value plants

It's warfare at the magnifying-glass level. Nursery workers deploy predators by shaking them from trays or from plastic jugs that can hold up to 25,000 bugs. Some simply spread out and start eating. Others are like bizarre special ops forces.

Tree farm fits well in ag-challenged region

“It’s not the best farmland — lots of clay. But if the (tree) roots can find water, you’re good to go.”