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Next Door Nursery

A backyard nursery in Houston, Tx specializing in local native plants of the Houston area.

03/14/2026

We have been delivering local native plants every week to this spring. Look out for our plant tags to see what county we collected the seeds from. The bulk of the plants we have been growing came from remnant prairies that are soon to be demolished. You can still order from our website/via email or set up an appointment to shop at our nursery 🌱

12/20/2025

This past Saturday we delivered another round of plants to Prairie Plots at Rice University, next to the James Turrell Skyspace installation. Our friends .__ won an ASLA Award of Excellence in Research earlier this year for the project and the forward-thinking management of the site which has included prescribed burning, community building, and seed saving/dispersal. It’s a great display of habitat restoration in a high-profile area. If this topic interests you, be sure to check out prairieplots.com for plenty of great pictures and records of the project over the years. .__ bought a batch of Texas coneflowers from us when they started the project in 2022, and have been getting plants from us ever since to inoculate the site with more and more biodiversity. For us, it has been a learning experience as well. Here are some of our plants that have been put in the ground there, and some notes on the sizes/timeframes the different species took to establish:
Photo 1: Eupatorium Serotinum, Late Boneset blooming. Planted as a deep plug this past April.
2: Eragrostis Eliottii, Eliott's Lovegrass thriving and in its full winter beauty. Planted in April of this year from a deep plug.
3: Little bluestem, Schyzacyrium Scoparium and Gulf Vervain, Verbena Xutha in the foreground were planted this past April as deep plugs.
4: Rudbeckia Texana a few years in spreading and holding its ground nicely.
5: Rudbeckia Texana seeds ready for harvest.
6: Chalky Bluestem, Anatherum Deabaltum 8 months after planting on the corner of a frogfruit pathway, also planted this spring.
7: Our plants getting laid out.
8: A close up of one of our 4" Chalky Bluestem earlier this spring.
9: A fully rooted deep plug of Bushy Bluestem, Andropogon Glomeratus that was delivered this Saturday. These 2"x5" deep plugs are the most cost effective for large plantings and they have a very high success rate, even in our heavy gumbo clay and drought conditions we've had over the past few years. Ill be posting more in the future about our deep plugs and our observations of them in different restoration, commercial landscaping, and nursery settings.
10: Slender Bluestem, Schyzacyrium Tenerum

11/24/2025

Tomorrow, 11/24, I’m stoked to be doing a talk at the Deer Park Prairie with , and for the Grassland and Savannah Ecology Speaker Series. You can sign up at the link in my bio and tune in on zoom tomorrow at 6.
Late November is one of our biggest seeding periods, so I decided to dedicate my part of the talk towards doing a deep dive on seed germination. There will be another talk coming up at the end of January at the Deer Park Prairie where I will cover more topics around our methods of plant production.

There has been lots of great germination happening at the nursery this month, stay tuned to see our full list of plants we have been sprouting for the spring 🌱

11/06/2025

This past week we sent a nice mix of prairie plants out to one of our regular landscape contractor clients, , for a few ecological landscaping projects around our region. One project they are doing we’re excited to see play out is a meadow planting on a historic property in Galveston featuring a matrix of low-growing grasses and perennial/annual local wildflowers for year-round blooms.
We are regularly inspired by working with talented local small business owners who have a shared mission of reintroducing our native plants back into urban landscapes.
Here are a few pictures of the initial planting for the new meadow, along with a few of their other gardens with our plants.

10/13/2025

Yesterday marked a new milestone for us when we delivered plants for the first time to and their newest planting at River Dr. and I45. Not only is this a dense and diverse planting with local endemic plants, nice signage, and a good maintenance program in place, but it’s also in a public park that’s in our neighborhood, which means a lot to us. It is a thoughtful mix of plants and layout that will be providing year-round beauty for years to come. This area is part of the broader Bayou Greenways - 3,000 acres and 150 miles of trails and green space along our bayous, with the shared mission of “equitable access for all”. Right on the other side of 45 is another Bayou Greenways planting with plants from our friends .
We love to be a part of an effort that has restored so much of our ecology, and look forward to furthering that effort in the years to come. Stayed tuned to see what we’re growing out for other parks, and let us know if you need some plants!

10/11/2025

Donald from picked up his custom order from us yesterday. If you’re in San Antonio, go check out their nursery, they have been buying from us for a few years now and have a great selection of hard-to-find plants not available anywhere else.

09/13/2025

We’ve been enjoying and learning from this plant combination we planted 2 years ago in a terracotta pot. Doll’s Head Daisy/Boltonia Diffusa is the big showy aster that is the focal point now until the end of the year. From spring through summer, Pycnanthemum Albescens/ White Leaf Mountain Mint was where the eye was drawn. In the early spring while those two were emerging, Brazos Penstemon/Penstemon Tenuis was the first one flowering. As you’re thinking about what to plant this Fall, consider having a mix of plants for year-round blooms.
We just delivered some Dolls Head Daisy to today, and will be sending some to our friends in San Antonio later this month. It usually looks scraggly in the wild under stress and competition, but it makes a great garden/container plant, and it gets extra floriferous if you add a little

08/21/2025

Watermelons and native plants thriving together in a happy client’s backyard.

08/17/2025

Alophia Drummondii blooming in our 1 gallons. This plant only grows in our corner of the US and along the coast of Mexico. It takes a little while to grow from seed but it’s worth it!

07/11/2025

Have you been to recently? Tomorrow, July 11, they will be donating 100% of their proceeds to Kerr County Relief Fund. We have sent over 100 different species to Buchanans this spring. They have been very supportive to us and other local growers, which gives us the stability to continue our work of growing the diversity of plants we offer. During this tragedy I have noticed lots of small businesses across Texas who, like Buchanans, are providing relief to those affected by the Central Texas floods. We could make a big impact by consciously investing in businesses that are actively uplifting our communities, supporting those in need, & modeling good stewardship.

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6100 Main St
Houston, TX
77005

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http://www.nextdoornursery.com/

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