Starting in the late 1980s, John Fairey and Carl Schoenfeld made over 100 botanizing trips to remote regions of Mexico to document and conserve rapidly vanishing, uniquely diversified plants. John and Carl propagated the species they collected and introduced them, as well as other unusual plants, into the garden. They started the renowned Yucca Do Nursery to share those plants with the public, influencing garden design in Texas and beyond. To honor that legacy, we have created the John Gaston Fairey Signature Plant Collection, a selection of plants that are either associated with our Garden, or that John and Carl collected in Mexico. We have a greenhouse at The John Fairey Garden Nursery dedicated to our Signature Collection where one can find a host of plants, many not typically found in local nurseries. Additionally, most of these plants are cold hardy and drought tolerant.
While our inventory will vary, we currently have the following:
– Justicia fulvicoma (Mexican Shrimp Plant)
– Mahonia gracilis
– Magnolia tamaulipana
– Litsea japonica
– Salvia microphylla ‘La Trinidad Pink’
– Salvia microphylla ‘San Carlos Festival’
– Salvia blepharophylla (Eyelash Sage)
– Casimiroa pringlei (Pringle’s Sapote)
– Quercus sp. ‘Galeana’
– Zephyranthes ‘La Bufa Rosa’
– Agave bracteosa
– Agave lophantha ‘Quadricolor’
– Agave sp. ‘Miquihuana Silver’
– Callicarpa acuminata (Mexican Beautyberry)
– Quercus sp. ‘San Carlos’
– Quercus sp. ‘Sierra Chiquita’
– Tradescantia sillamontana
– Tradescantia pallida
– Caesalpinia mexicana (Mexican Bird of Paradise)
– Zamia integrifolia
– Russellia sp. ‘Coral Blow’
– Mucuna cyclocarpa
Our nursery is open from 9-3, Tuesday through Saturday. We hope you will visit our Signature Plant Collection. We likely have something that will distinguish your garden.
