HISTORY
In 1837, Isaac Worthington purchased the first piece of land in the Ballards community outside of Greenville, North Carolina. Throughout the 1900s “flue-cured” tobacco was grown as the primary crop. Over the years we also produced other agricultural products including hogs, chickens, corn, cotton, and peanuts.
The first shade and ornamental trees were planted on the farm in 1978. In the 1990s, we began to focus on the nursery. In 1990, we became the first North Carolina nursery to adopt “pot-in-pot” container production which allows plants to could be transplanted safely during the growing season.
In 2019, after decades of experience in growing nursery crops, we began to produce plant liners for other nurseries and our own internal use.
In 2019, we also began PhyllaTech, LLC, a tissue culture lab that propagates plants primarily for the commercial berry industry. PhyllaTech specializes in blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries, and also offers contract services for tissue culture projects. To learn more about PhyllaTech visit www.phyllatech.com.
TODAY
We are a family-owned nursery providing premium-quality plants to landscape professionals. Through the years we have dreamed of being a nursery capable of supplying all the plants needed to complete a landscape project. Today we can do that, in addition to supplying liners to other nurseries. We pride ourselves on the quality of our plants and the reliability of our service.
We are wholesale only and do not sell to the general public. Contact us to locate a landscape designer, architect, or contractor near you.
We send out periodic emails with our current availability and featured plants. Contact us for more information or to be added to our mailing list.
OUR PLANTS
Container: We produce container-grown plants in sizes ranging from 3 to 35 gallon pots.
B&B: In the field, we grow plants ranging in size from 2 inch to 5 inch caliper which are then balled and burlapped (B&B).
Rewholesale: To provide a full-service experience to our customers, we carefully source and stock quality plants from other growers to fill gaps in our inventory.
Liners: We produce plant liners for many premier nurseries on the East Coast.