The Oldest Full-Service Nursery in Denton
Meador's Garden Center & Landscaping has been trading in Denton for more than eight decades, passed down through three generations of the Meador family. The buildings and the stock have changed a great deal over that time; the family ownership has not.
Our staff answer plant questions for customers and for the wider community. The garden center carries plants, garden supplies and décor, and our landscaping crews plant trees and design and install landscapes.
Keeping a family-owned shop going this long has meant adapting as the area around us changed. Many of our customers know their own gardens well, and we learn from them as often as they ask us. Come in for landscaping and planting services.
Our History
Rooted in Denton since 1940
1940s
Our story starts circa 1940, when the “grandpop” of our little mom and pop, R.L. Meador, started growing and selling plants from this location.
He had learned about the business while working at a nursery called Bovell’s close by and decided to try his hand. Back then, they planted the plants in the ground and dug them up and wrapped the roots when ready to transplant. This could only be accomplished in the spring, so they grew cotton during the off-seasons in the '40s to supplement the rest of the year’s lack of income.
1950s
Two glass greenhouses were erected in the '50s, where seeds and cuttings were started during the winter and then transplanted into the ground during the early spring. They made a deal with a local cannery to use their one- and five-gallon metal containers. It was then that they stopped growing in the field, and focused on growing in containers.
1960s-70s
Vaughn Wayne Meador (one of R.L. Meador’s nine children) and his wife, Gene Foster Meador, bought the nursery in the '60s. R.L. still lived behind the store and would often sit in the back, whittling. Alvin, Vaughn Wayne’s brother, worked here for many years as well.
During the off-season, Gene made dried and silk flower arrangements and sold them during the spring, while Vaughn Wayne started a taxidermy shop in the nursery and was one of the go-to taxidermists in this area.
Towards the end of the '60s, both businesses were booming so much so that they had to choose between being a nursery or a taxidermy shop. It was then that they officially added the landscaping component.
1980s
Our current owner and son of Vaughn Wayne and Gene Meador, Ted Meador, started working at the shop in 1985 after attending Texas A&M for horticulture. Since then, the nursery has seen many expansions and improvements to become the store you know today.
At a Glance
- Year Established
- 1940
- Products
- Flowers · Herbs · Mulch · Perennials · Plants · Shrubs · Soil · Stone · Trees · Vegetables
- Services
- Flower Planting · Landscape Design · Landscape Installation · Shrub Planting · Tree Planting
- Specialties
- Nursery
- Associations
- Denton Chamber of Commerce
- Payment Types
- American Express · Apple Pay · Cash · Check · Discover · MasterCard · Visa
- Languages
- English · Spanish
- Brands
- Fertilome · Proven Winners Plants · Southern Living Plants · Texas A&I University