The Flower Ranch

This, my friends, is how it’s done!
We entered as Flower Ranch rookies. The owner is a hoot, and he explained to us how the plants are arranged, what can be mixed, what can’t, etc. Upon making a selection, an employee appears and takes it from you, storing it in a numbered bin near the registers so you can continue shopping at your leisure. The owner checked on us several times to see if we had questions. He was also very knowledgeable about each of the plants we asked about — sun & water requirements and the like.
The plants were about as healthy as they could be. We’re used to having to pick through plant beds to remove sickly looking plants from a group at the big box stores. Not here. There wasn’t a sickly plant in sight. We got ours home, transplanted into their proper places, and they are thriving.
This is our nursery. Service and selection are bar none!

All I can say is WOW! This place is amazing!
I’m planting my flower garden in phases and this week I’m doing the accent pots near the pool (hopefully, I’ll be doing the in-​ground surrounding section next week). Anyway, for these pots I mainly wanted annuals that I can easily replace so I can keep the color going through fall (with 2 or 3 different plantings through the seasons). I visited one of the local big-​box home improvement stores last week for herbs and flowers for a different section of the yard (thanks for the coupons, btw) and, quite frankly, was too bored with them to go back again this week.
I’ve seen ads for the Flower Ranch and have no idea why I’ve never been there, but my goodness! What a place! It’s absolutely overwhelming what a selection they have. Now I don’t know if they carry Texas natives, but I did see a lot of full sun and drought tolerant plants. I had to force myself to focus on why I was there the day I went so I could leave with the plants for my project, otherwise I think I’d still be there. So many things to choose from! And it’s so overwhelmingly colorful in there.
The only thing I found a bit difficult with shopping here is that they don’t have any carts to push your plants around in. I like to group things on a cart and push them around while I’m shopping so I can see how things will look together. The Flower Ranch has plastic trays you can use and you carry the plants around on those. Once your tray is full, there are numbered shelves at the front of the store where you place your tray for safe-​keeping while you go shopping for more. Actually ‘you’ don’t have to carry the trays around. They have lots of people there to help you with that. I probably didn’t take advantage of that as much as I could have. Now I went early afternoon on Monday and their system worked fine but I’m having a little trouble envisioning how the ‘numbered shelf’ system works on a Saturday (I think there were less than 30 numbered shelves that I saw).
Bottom line — if you haven’t checked this place out, stop in and take a look — at least for future reference.