You can't go wrong with this beautiful daisy. A host of butterflies endorse this message.
Look for it at our plant sale this Saturday, 10/26, 9a to 1p, only at Rockport Daily Grind. 302 S. Austin St, Rockport, 78382. 1g at $5/each.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Sea Ox-Eye, Borrichia frutescens
UPDATED Plant Sale Schedule 2024
Yes, I know. I wrote that we were only vending at the remaining Maker's Markets at Rockport Daily Grind for the rest of 2024. But that first week was so busy, and so many of you asked us to bring plants weekly, that we have decided to do just that. Join us every Saturday, 9a to 1p, at your favorite downtown coffee shop located at 302 S. Austin St, Rockport, 78382. We will bring the rare and unusual truly native, Texas native and adapted coastal plants you have come to love.
This week's market (10/26) is Halloween themed! We will be in costumes, with a spooky booth set up and ghoulish plant names. Stop by our booth for some tricks and treats!
10/26 -- Halloween themed market at Rockport Daily Grind (plant sale 9a to 1p)
11/2 -- NativeDave Plant Sale at Rockport Daily Grind 9a to 1p
11/9 -- Maker's Market at Rockport Daily Grind (plant sale 9a to 1p)
11/16 -- NativeDave Plant Sale at Rockport Daily Grind 9a to 1p -- Thanksgiving theme
11/23 -- Thanksgiving themed market at Rockport Daily Grind (plant sale 9a to 1p)
11/30 -- Shop Small Business Saturday NativeDave Plant Sale at Rockport Daily Grind 9a to 1p
12/7 -- NativeDave Plant Sale at Rockport Daily Grind 9a to 1p -- TENTATIVE
12/14 -- Christmas in the District Market at Rockport Daily Grind (plant sale 9a to 1p)
Break for the Holidays!
We will return in 2025 and look forward to sharing all the wonderful new plants we are propagating NOW!
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
New Name, New Game
Our parent company is still NativeDave, Inc. But after more than two decades of providing a full array of landscape services, we are transitioning into a new era: growing operations!
When we relocated from DFW-Denton to Texas' Coastal Bend, we found that plants native to this area were unavailable in the nursery trade. We procured some of the common natives that overlap with larger markets in Texas, but in order to complete our projects, we started growing the truly coastal natives. Gradually, other contractors and retail nurseries learned about our plants and begin purchasing from us for their customers. Ultimately, we discovered that growing and selling rare and unusual native plants would be the next logical iteration for NativeDave. Beginning in August 2023, we ceased all landscape opertions and shifted our focused on delivering locally grown, truly coastal native plants at wholesale prices to the public. We hope you will join us soon for one of our upcoming plant sales at Rockport Daily Grind, 302 S Austin St, Rockport, TX, 78382.
Remaining Plant Sale dates 2024:
Saturdays 9a to noon:
10/14
10/26
11/9
11/23
12/14
Other dates will be added to this post when available.
Thank you for 20+ years of support for our business, our family, and our community!
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Working with Us
Thank you for your interest in our sustainable landscape solutions. We are a team consisting of educated and experienced horticulture professionals, naturalists, and artists who create outdoor spaces that are both beautiful and functional. Our focus is native plants for the purposes of conserving, preserving, restoring and celebrating a region's natural identity. Since our inception in 2001, our goal has been to make positive changes in our community by informing its residents about native plants and sustainable landscape methods. We have presented hundreds of educational programs related to these topics, and several of our projects have garnered awards from the cities of Dallas, Plano and Denton. Although we have relocated our operations and family to Texas' Coastal Bend, we continue to serve clients located in the Dallas-Ft. Worth-Denton and Austin regions.
Our Services
Each project is unique and receives customized suggestions. To help guide us and you through the planning phase, we request that you complete our new client questionnaire. Please send us a message at nativedaveinc@gmail.com and ask for this document. When you return the completed form, please also include a few photos of the project site.
Each project is unique and receives customized suggestions. To help guide us and you through the planning phase, we request that you complete our new client questionnaire. Please send us a message at nativedaveinc@gmail.com and ask for this document. When you return the completed form, please also include a few photos of the project site.
Site visit/consultation -- estimated cost: $75 for one hour (notes only), $125-150 for up to two hours (notes and sketch). We will visit your property and make recommendations based on your responses to our questionnaire. Payment is due when services are rendered.
Design -- estimated cost: $400-900+, depending on size and scope of your project. Please submit a current and legible copy of your survey or plat plan with your questionnaire and photos. Your design package will include digital files of the following: 24x36" custom design, to scale; list of plants and materials, including common and botanical names; care and maintenance instructions; recommended sources for plant materials; and referrals to contractors in addition to our team who may assist you with part or all of the installation phase. When your design is complete, we will schedule an appointment by phone to review our recommendations. This usually takes about an hour, and we conduct these sessions in the evening and on weekends. Payment is due when services are rendered.
Installation -- estimated cost: based on your budgetary parameters or we can "design to the ideal", which is on average equal to approximately 5-10% of the value of your home. A deposit equal to one-half the estimated cost is required to begin your project. The balance is due upon completion of your project unless other arrangements have been made in writing and agreed upon by both parties. We offer a warranty as follows: 1) warranty is valid for 90 days from date of installation; 2) all of our plants are guaranteed to be true to name, the correct quantity, and healthy at time of delivery; and 3) excludes loss due to weather; client neglect; or damage caused by humans, machinery or motorized vehicles, or wildlife. To ensure the success of your project, we suggest our maintenance service for at least the first 90 days from the date of installation.
Maintenance -- estimated cost: based on size and scope of your project. Our rates for maintenance are based on $55 per man hour. To ensure the success of your project, we suggest this as a companion to our installation service for at least the first 90 days from the date of installation. We issue invoices for maintenance on a monthly basis, typically on or around the 1st. Payment is due within 5 business days.
Plant materials -- estimated cost: 2in plugs are $2 each; 4in pots are $4 each; 1g pots are $8 each; 3/5g pots are $18-35 each; please ask about prices of other sizes. Our nursery is open by appointment only to ensure your personalized shopping experience. You may contact us by phone (361-549-2503), text (214-477-2919), email (nativedaveinc@gmail.com), or Facebook Messenger to schedule a tour. Please visit our website (nativedave.com) and click on the Plant Availability tab to see our current inventory.
Writer and Speaker fees -- please contact us to negotiate these fees.
Methods of Payment
We accept cash, check, or credit cards. We use Square to process credit card transactions and QuickBooks for online payments.
We accept cash, check, or credit cards. We use Square to process credit card transactions and QuickBooks for online payments.
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Monday, June 04, 2018
Plant sales and nursery hours
Results are in!
Recently we asked on our Facebook page whether you would prefer to attend a plant sale at our nursery or a pop-up venue. The responses were evenly divided 50-50; therefore, we have decided to do a little of both and, we hope, reach as many people as possible. This week, we will return to the Corpus Christi Downtown Farmers’ Market, Wednesday, 5-8p, at 100 N Shoreline Drive. Here is our projected pull list:
In 4” at $4/ea: edibles — jackfruit, mint, copper canyon daisy, hardy ice plant, and sea purslane; natives — pink powderpuff, frogfruit, horseherb, woolly stemodia, railroadvine, beach morning glory, pigeonberry, and big momma turk’s cap.
In 1g @ $8/ea: native and edible — lemon beebalm, lyre leaf sage, turk’s cap, elderberry, and American Beautyberry; other natives — pink and white gaura, and a variety of sages; other edibles — lemongrass and upright rosemary. And maybe some surprises, too!
After much consideration, we have decided to keep nursery hours by appointment only. Our goal is to provide you with customized information and a pleasant shopping experience. Currently we are available Tuesday and Thursday mornings 8a to noon, and other days and times by request. Please do not visit our property without an appointment. Whether the gate is open or closed, we are not available for “walk in” customers.
Thank you for your continued support of our mission to restore Texas!
Recently we asked on our Facebook page whether you would prefer to attend a plant sale at our nursery or a pop-up venue. The responses were evenly divided 50-50; therefore, we have decided to do a little of both and, we hope, reach as many people as possible. This week, we will return to the Corpus Christi Downtown Farmers’ Market, Wednesday, 5-8p, at 100 N Shoreline Drive. Here is our projected pull list:
In 4” at $4/ea: edibles — jackfruit, mint, copper canyon daisy, hardy ice plant, and sea purslane; natives — pink powderpuff, frogfruit, horseherb, woolly stemodia, railroadvine, beach morning glory, pigeonberry, and big momma turk’s cap.
In 1g @ $8/ea: native and edible — lemon beebalm, lyre leaf sage, turk’s cap, elderberry, and American Beautyberry; other natives — pink and white gaura, and a variety of sages; other edibles — lemongrass and upright rosemary. And maybe some surprises, too!
After much consideration, we have decided to keep nursery hours by appointment only. Our goal is to provide you with customized information and a pleasant shopping experience. Currently we are available Tuesday and Thursday mornings 8a to noon, and other days and times by request. Please do not visit our property without an appointment. Whether the gate is open or closed, we are not available for “walk in” customers.
Thank you for your continued support of our mission to restore Texas!
Monday, November 13, 2017
Resilient
As long as I have "painted" landscapes with native plants, I am still in awe of their durability and fortitude against perils in nature. Wildlife, weather events, and even other plants pose constant threats to their survival, yet they continue to reach toward the sun and "bloom where they are planted." Here in the Coastal Bend we wage a constant war against leaf cutter ants, mosquitoes, and other biting pests, and exotic-invasives, such as peppertree and guinea grass. Leaf cutters, specifically, chomp on plants indescriminately; they eat natives, adaptables, and exotics alike. But surprisingly their feast does not kill the plants (usually). Denuded, plants trudge on and simply cover themselves with new leaves, new blooms, or new berries. Native plants appear particularly resistant to the mawing, and sometimes it seems as if they thrust their fists into the air in protest. You will not defeat me, Ants, they say.
At least, I imagine that is what these resilient plants would say if I could speak their language. I might not hear their words, exactly, but I do "get" their need to be planted somewhere they will get just the right amount of sunlight or water, or the proper range of temperatures, or in the right soil. Like my foliar friends, I have preferences, too. For instance, I loathe cold weather and therefore live in the Southern US. I also prefer Texas to the other states where I have lived, so I live in south Texas. I prefer beaches and coastal prairies with pockets of forests. I live in Texas' Coastal Bend where I have plenty of sunshine and sand, saltwater and salty breeze, rolling prairies of bluestem and wildflowers, live oaks and redbays. The Bend is the birdiest place in the US, and I am delighted daily by the diversity of winged residents. This area is also part of the migratory path for a number of hummingbirds and butterflies -- two of my favorite visitors to my garden. Winters are often warm, and I have not suffered snow in many years. Aside from having only two seasons (Inferno and two weeks of winter), The Bend is my paradise. Living here has cultivated my creativity and brought me the happiest (and also the most challenging) years of my life.
Each day, our little slice of paradise shows improvement. There is still plenty of water to pump to our neighbor's pond every day. Every. Single. Day. (Yes I am typing this with a hint of frustration.) But it's fine, it will all be fine. Someday! I often find plants that had been moved to higher ground (but not high enough for the likes of Harvey) and are alive. They have been buried under downed limbs and stripped leaves from our beloved live oaks. Without consistent irrigation or touches from human hands, these survivors are barely hanging on. Some were submerged under water, some were toppled over in flowing water and are brown on one side. Their appearance is a little off , but like the rest of us here in The Bend they will resume their loveliness, in time. Recently I have begun making plans for giving them permanent homes here at Sage Hollow in our demonstration gardens, which must be started over anyway. Clean up continues, repairs and rebuilding continues. And, like the plants we choose to share our life with, we continue to persevere. Our family and the families of our crew are resilient.
At least, I imagine that is what these resilient plants would say if I could speak their language. I might not hear their words, exactly, but I do "get" their need to be planted somewhere they will get just the right amount of sunlight or water, or the proper range of temperatures, or in the right soil. Like my foliar friends, I have preferences, too. For instance, I loathe cold weather and therefore live in the Southern US. I also prefer Texas to the other states where I have lived, so I live in south Texas. I prefer beaches and coastal prairies with pockets of forests. I live in Texas' Coastal Bend where I have plenty of sunshine and sand, saltwater and salty breeze, rolling prairies of bluestem and wildflowers, live oaks and redbays. The Bend is the birdiest place in the US, and I am delighted daily by the diversity of winged residents. This area is also part of the migratory path for a number of hummingbirds and butterflies -- two of my favorite visitors to my garden. Winters are often warm, and I have not suffered snow in many years. Aside from having only two seasons (Inferno and two weeks of winter), The Bend is my paradise. Living here has cultivated my creativity and brought me the happiest (and also the most challenging) years of my life.
Each day, our little slice of paradise shows improvement. There is still plenty of water to pump to our neighbor's pond every day. Every. Single. Day. (Yes I am typing this with a hint of frustration.) But it's fine, it will all be fine. Someday! I often find plants that had been moved to higher ground (but not high enough for the likes of Harvey) and are alive. They have been buried under downed limbs and stripped leaves from our beloved live oaks. Without consistent irrigation or touches from human hands, these survivors are barely hanging on. Some were submerged under water, some were toppled over in flowing water and are brown on one side. Their appearance is a little off , but like the rest of us here in The Bend they will resume their loveliness, in time. Recently I have begun making plans for giving them permanent homes here at Sage Hollow in our demonstration gardens, which must be started over anyway. Clean up continues, repairs and rebuilding continues. And, like the plants we choose to share our life with, we continue to persevere. Our family and the families of our crew are resilient.
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Harveyed
The pic on the right shows a front view of our home. You can see the roof is peeled back like a can of sardines. Surprisingly, the walls were intact as were all but one window which is not one that opens and closes, anyway. And it was only cracked not shattered. We plan to simply fill the cracks with a lovely color to "heal" the wounds left by the storm.
A lot has happened in these two months. Each day we make tiny steps toward resuming normalcy. It has been difficult to watch our community collectively grieve. It has been bad, really bad. This will take a long while. However, for the most part, we are working together to build a better future for our community.
Friday, March 10, 2017
Friday, February 03, 2017
In Defense of Gardening
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| Tomatoes harvested before Jan '17 freeze |
http://www.wwnrockport.com/2017/02/texas-treehuggers-in-defense-of.html
For those who want to or already garden: this is my tribute to you!
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
01102017 AVAILABILITY NATIVEDAVE NURSERY
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| Hoop House in the Native Dave nursery at Sage Hollow, Jan 2017 |
Happy New Year! We hope you and your loved ones have enjoyed the holiday season and are basking in the glow of a prosperous and hopeful 2017. Our nursery is rapidly filling with natives and edibles to tantalize you and your butterfly and "bird brain" friends. Below is our current availability; we are eager to share this with you! If you prefer our list in pdf, please send an email to nativedaveinc@gmail.com.
New plants are being added daily. If there is something you would like us to grow, please let us know!
Our regular prices are as follows: 4in pots = $4; 1G = $8; 5G shrubs = $25; 5G trees = $35; and palms are priced by the trunk foot (please call for prices.)
Hours of operation: by appointment or at one of our public plant sales (dates and times TBA soon.)
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