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About Meador's Garden Center & Landscaping
Full-Service Nursery | Family-Owned | Est. 1940
Family-Owned Since 1940
Veteran and Church Discounts
A Full-Service Nursery
The Oldest Full-Service Nursery in Denton
Meador's Garden Center & Landscaping stands as a rare and precious landmark in the North Texas landscape. During its eight decades of existence, the store has been passed down through three generations of Meadors and seen countless physical changes, but its spirit remains unchanged.
Our experienced staff works to educate the community on all things plant-related. We boast a huge variety of plants, garden supplies and décor at our garden center. Our landscaping crews also provide services such as tree planting as well as designing and installing landscapes.
Keeping our family-owned and -operated shop in business for so long took a certain amount of flexibility, ingenuity and ambition. As the world changed, so did we, always with the goal of better serving our customers. We have customers who are passionate about their landscapes and we learn as much from them as they do from us. Visit us
for quality landscaping and planting services.
Our History
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.
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