About 84 Farm & Gardens

Our Story

84 Farm and Gardens was started out of both necessity and passion for gardening. Brooke and I started doing floral design for weddings, and we learned that there were many beautiful flowers that couldn't be sold wholesale for a number of reasons, such as traveling issues or the inability to mass produce. With my love for growing plants and Brooke's brilliant creativity with wacky textures, it made sense to start growing the most unusual and unique flowers we couldn't find wholesale.

In the spring of 2021, we hired our first full-time employee, Landon, and we proceeded to plant a handful of rose bushes, a fleet of trees and woody shrubs for greenery, and all the bulbs we could find in the local box store clearance section. We started off fast and began learning (and failing) quickly. Growing and propagating our own plants in the heat of Texas was no small task, but with some success we began selling our divisions, seeds and bulbs on Etsy.

But as we continued to learn and grow, our passion for finding plants that did well in our harsh environment became one of our goals. Not just cut flowers, but food crops, cactus and everything in between. 

As Landon and I were on a rabid hunt searching for new, rare plants to grow on the property, we came across a mail-order nursery called Plant Delights. I read the story of how Tony Avent started a nursery and, in the process of the last several decades, managed to create one of the most diverse botanical gardens in the world, Juniper Level. All the while, he pushed the boundaries of horticulture, breeding, discovering new varieties, and conserving rare and threatened plants. I was inspired and knew we had to recreate something similar.

As of 2023, we currently operate on 10 acres of nursery, greenhouses, fields, orchard  and gardens. We maintain a goal of food and flower production, conservation, research, and development of over 700 varieties of plants.