Jon Mathews is a professional grower and landscaper with more than 30 years experience, and his company Shades of Texas grows, sells and installs the best quality trees, shrubs and plants in the Houston, Gulf Coast Area. Shades of Texas services areas such as Clear Lake, Bay Area, and Southeast Houston. Our growing wholesale operation is made up of staff who are passionate about what we do for a living: providing you with the absolute best quality, most unique landscaping products available. Not to mention we offer customers a tremendous amount of plant knowledge, proven techniques to stimulate plant growth and irrigation improvement applications that get results.

Shades of Texas is endorsed by Gardenline’s Randy Lemmon as one of the best tree nurseries in Houston .



Full-Service Retail & Wholesale Nursery

Shades of Texas Nursery makes two promises to its customers:

1. The best quality    2. The largest selection

Open to the public and professional installers, Shades of Texas has grown to be the area’s largest full-service garden center (south of Interstate 10 East to West). Shades of Texas customers can literally drive through the entire 150-acre nursery. The roads between each of the 12 lots (some lots spanning six to ten rows) are wide enough to accommodate a 60 ft. long eighteen-wheeler. And, we invite all customers – retail consumers and professional landscapers – to drive thru to pick out the product that best suits their needs. We offer more than 100,000 high-quality products in inventory. Do you demand a large selection? Not to worry, Shades of Texas has you covered.

Shades of Texas also provides professional landscaping services.


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Randy Lemmon - Gardenline May 1, 2015

“Shades of Texas is one of the best nurseries in Houston, the Laurel Oaks are the best quality I have ever seen.”