Where we deliver · Wholesale to professional landscapers and re-wholesalers
Wholesale trees delivered across Texas, from one farm in Sealy
The farm is on FM 2187 outside Sealy, an hour west of Houston on I-10, and we deliver anywhere in Texas. Freight is stated on every quote before you bid, so the number you carry into the bid is the number you pay, and you can always load at the farm instead. Seven metros have a page of their own below, each about what is actually true of that city; the rest of the state follows, region by region, with which of our trees belong there.
Seven cities
The metros we have written up
Each page is about what is true of that city and not the next one: its soil, its winters, its water, its tree ordinance, and which of the thirty-two varieties we grow belong there. In order of the drive from the farm.
- Houston about 1 hour from the farm Gulf Coast clay, wet feet and storms: ten of our trees built for it, and six we would send to the Hill Country instead.
- Bryan-College Station about 1.5 hours from the farm Acid sand over a claypan, the opposite of the limestone everywhere else, and the page where the magnolias come back on the list.
- Austin about 2 hours from the farm Limestone west of the fault, clay east, oak wilt in both, and which side of town each tree belongs on.
- San Antonio about 2 hours from the farm A plant list that lives on a SAWS watering day, and the South Texas trees that are at home here and a gamble further north.
- Waco about 3 hours from the farm Where the hardiness line runs through town, three grounds instead of two, and the 3 inch parking lot rule the #65 exists to meet.
- Corpus Christi about 3.5 hours from the farm Salt, wind and eighteen months of Stage 3 water: the trees that take all three, and the ones that do not.
- Dallas-Fort Worth about 4 hours from the farm A zone colder: which of our trees belong north of Waco, four soils in sixty miles, and two cities that count mitigation differently.
The rest of the state
Everywhere else in Texas, and which of our trees belong there
The farm sits where East Texas, the coast and the Hill Country meet, so our list has trees for acid sand, for Gulf clay and for limestone. No one region wants all of them, and the honest version of "statewide delivery" is saying which ones go where before the quote, not after the planting.
East Texas and the Piney Woods
Tyler, Longview, Lufkin, Nacogdoches: two to four hours. Acid sand under pine, which turns our list the same way round as College Station: Southern Magnolia 'D.D. Blanchard', Bald Cypress, Wax Myrtle, Shumard Red Oak, Yaupon Holly 'Pride of Houston' and Crape Myrtle 'Natchez' are at home, chlorosis is not a worry, and the limestone trees stay here. Live Oak goes as far north as Tyler and should be the escarpment side of the family above that.
The Golden Triangle
Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange: two hours straight down I-10. The Houston list, with more rain and the same clay. Bald Cypress, Live Oak, Mexican Sycamore and the magnolias; keep the dry-air trees out of it.
Victoria and the coastal plain
Victoria, El Campo, Bay City, Wharton: an hour to two and a half. Between the Houston list and the Corpus Christi one, heavy coastal clay without the salt until you reach the bays. Live Oak, Shumard, Bur Oak, Lacebark Elm, Montezuma Cypress and the crape myrtles.
The Hill Country
Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Marble Falls: two and a half to three and a half hours. Limestone, thin soil, sharp drainage, oak wilt everywhere, and the hardest freezes south of Waco. The limestone half of the Austin and San Antonio lists: Chinkapin Oak, Texas Red Oak, Bur Oak, Texas Live Oak 'Joan Lionetti', Texas Mountain Laurel, Mexican Buckeye and Desert Willow 'Sweet Bubba', and Mexican White Oak with the pruning calendar kept.
The Rio Grande Valley
McAllen, Harlingen, Brownsville: five to six hours, and zone 10a, the warmest ground in the state. No cold filter at all: Anacua, Montezuma Cypress, Live Oak, Mexican White Oak, Palo Verde 'Desert Museum', Texas Mountain Laurel and Spanish Dagger are all in, and the wind and salt notes from the Corpus Christi page apply near the coast. A full load is the only sensible order at this distance.
Laredo and the brush country
Laredo, Cotulla, Carrizo Springs: four to five hours. Hot, dry, alkaline and short of water. The xeric list and nothing that needs irrigation to look like the drawing: Palo Verde, Desert Willow, Spanish Dagger, Texas Mountain Laurel, Anacua, Mexican White Oak and Live Oak.
West Texas and the Permian Basin
San Angelo, Midland, Odessa, Abilene: five to seven hours. Alkaline, dry and colder each hour you drive. Bur Oak, Chinkapin Oak, Texas Red Oak, Lacebark Elm, Desert Willow 'Sweet Bubba', Vitex 'Shoal Creek', Arizona Cypress 'Blue Ice' and Taylor Juniper belong; Live Oak is a fair bet to about San Angelo and a gamble beyond it.
The Panhandle and the South Plains
Lubbock is zone 7b and Amarillo 7a, eight to nine hours away, and most of our list does not belong there, which we would rather say now than on the invoice. The ones that do: Bur Oak, Chinkapin Oak, Lacebark Elm, Desert Willow 'Sweet Bubba', Vitex 'Shoal Creek', Taylor Juniper and Arizona Cypress 'Blue Ice'. No Live Oak, no magnolias, nothing from South Texas.
El Paso
Ten hours, zone 8b in most of the city, and soil at pH 8 or above. The desert list: Palo Verde, Desert Willow, Spanish Dagger, Texas Mountain Laurel, Arizona Cypress, Vitex, and Chinkapin or Bur Oak where there is water for a shade tree. We will quote it; a full load is the only way the freight makes sense.
Freight
How delivery works, anywhere in the state
Freight is stated on every quote before you bid, and an approved quote holds the trees to the ship date. The farther the job, the more a full load matters, because freight is charged by the truck and shared by whatever is on it.
Within two hours of the farm, the drive is short enough that a half load is an ordinary order. Beyond that, two or three jobs on one truck, or a full load for one, is where the freight per tree comes down. Your own trailer is welcome at the farm at any distance. Sealy sits on I-10 with Highway 36 running north and south through it, so every corner of the state starts on a highway.
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Send us the plant list, and the town
Send the list and the delivery address and we will tell you what we have, what we do not, what belongs on that ground and in that winter, and what it would cost delivered. We sell to professional landscapers and professional re-wholesalers only. If you are a homeowner, your landscaper is welcome to call us.
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Or call (210) 736-0146, or email trees@topnotchtreefarm.com. The farm is at 3153 FM 2187 Rd, Sealy, TX 77474, and here are the directions.