Product Description:

Shady Grove offers a wide selection of better cultivars in hollies, southern magnolias, and shade and flowering trees. Pulling from over 600 acres of cultivated trees, we can offer good availabilities in a wide range of sizes. Shade trees are available from 2 1/2” in caliper, while hollies, magnolias, and other shrubs may be sold from 6’ and up, depending on variety and availability. Many of our crops have a target rotation of up to fifteen years. This enables designers and contractors to choose from a vastly diversified stock of plants.

Whether it is a 30’ specimen magnolia or holly, 12” oak, or consistent quality smaller tree or shrub, Shady Grove has the depth and experience to provide you with unparalleled service and plant material.


Introductions:

Shady Grove has been a leader in the introduction of better cultivars to the trade. Magnolia grandiflora cultivars Claudia Wannamaker, Hasse, Smith Fogle and Margaret Davis, all have their origins here. All were chosen to provide the designer with a magnolia of superior characteristics and predictable performance. While Claudia offers the landscape a classic form with profuse blooming, Hasse is a rare narrow form suitable for use in smaller gardens. Other Shady Grove introductions include “Sizzler” Holly, “Thunderhead” Holly and “Shady Grove Roundleaf” Yaupon. We continue to evaluate new introductions from other sources. Because of the length of our rotation, a visit to Shady Grove can provide critical insight into how these plants can be expected to perform in the long term.

Quality:

Our reputation for quality has been built through years of providing landscape materials that exceed the expectations of our customers. Expect our trees to be of superior form and vigor up top, and have an excellent root system below. Soil at the nursery is generally a sandy loam to 12” in depth, with light clay beneath. In addition to the fine natural growing medium, we have engineered a hybrid drip and water table control irrigation system, designed to maximize root production. The result is a root system well balanced with both fibrous and heavier structural roots, so important in handling and transplant.
Root balls are  truncated for ease of handling. We are equipped to dig up to 94” mechanically, and have produced trees as large as 60’ in hand-dug root balls up to 14’ across.