Description
The Dry Limestone Prairies of the Fort Worth, Texas area constitute one of the most interesting and unique plant habitats in North America. they stand at the transition of the mesic, humid East to the more arid and windy West, and because of this they contain many plant species that can be found nowhere else. Though it has been two centuries since the bison were nearly driven to extinction, many of the plant species that once shared this habitat with them are still here, or were at least, until the property owners of the few parcels that remained sold their land off to sleaze bag developers for Ponzi Scheme Housing Tracts.
One man, Akash Munshi, is doing all he can to save what's left and actively propagate these plants, ensuring that there are seedlings to plant for those who wish to savor a bit of this habitat. Akash is opening post-oak nursery in Paris, Texas in early 2027 and will be selling many of these plants, such as:
Silphium albiflorum (White Rosinweed)
Liatris mucronata, Dalea tenuis, Dalea hallii, Asclepias engelmanniana, Schizachyrium scoparium, Asclepias stenophylla, and more.
Post Oak Nursery is a a wholesale plant nursery specializing in growing native plants of Texas.
We grow species native to blackland and Fort Worth prairies/cross timbers, Edward's plateau, post oak/pine savannahs, and gulf coast prairies, offering native plants that would have been found in the DFW, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston areas. Most if not all the species we grow cannot be found anywhere else in the nursery trade, despite being some of the most common species in Texas prior to European settlement. We hand-collect all of our seed, making a special point to collect from sites scheduled for development. We are based out of Paris, Texas, about an hour and a half Northeast of Dallas. Propagation at Post Oak nursery will not begin until January 2026 after I graduate from college; the first batch of plants will be ready for sale late February 2027. We will be selling exclusively in fifty count cell trays comprised of five inch deep plugs. We'll be shipping everything we grow, or you will have the option to pick plants up from Paris. ln the first year, we will have the capacity to grow 50,000 plugs. If you want to see our species list or learn more about our propagation process, you can stop by and give us a follow at @postoaknursery on Instagram.
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