Hello everyone.

Who are we? What are we doing? What is our relationship with Tom Dodd Nurseries?
Tom Dodd, III (Tommy) and Thayer began growing native plants in 1992 - so this is our 20th year at this. "Big Al" Showers has been with us the whole time and we could not exist without him. Tom is a third generation nurseryman with "green blood" and a Vietnam combat veteran. Thayer is a CPA with a business background whose fingernails don't come clean anymore.
We grow the plants we love. We appreciate our southern plants for their native beauty and for their contribution to the environment and the habitats they occupy. We grow them for their connections to the birds, butterflies, beneficial insects and other animals that they provide food and shelter for. They are not necessarily easier to grow, but they have a place in nature and in created landscapes, residential and commercial.

A few years ago we got off track and thought we had to grow what everyone else did and that it would increase our sales. Wrong. What you know us for and what you call us for are the natives. So, last year we threw away every gardenia, loropetalum and hellerii on the place and started filling up the nursery with good southern plants. We are adding perennials to the lineup because you have asked for them. We have introduced quite a few plants and these are marked ** on the availability list. Some of them are now making their way into larger nurseries in bigger numbers - Cliftonia monophylla 'Vancleave', Myrica cerifera 'Tom's dwarf', Rhod. X 'Admiral Semmes', Hypericum densiflorum 'Creel's Gold' and more. We continue to try out "new" plants. One of our new favorites is Eubotrys racemosa "sweet bells'. It is a deciduous leucothoe with fragrant racemes of white bells in spring. It is a great companion plant for native azaleas. We continue to try to grow the native azaleas, despite their protests. Another new favorite is species Satureja georgiana. Tom came back from a river trip in south Georgia with cuttings of what he had seen covering a bank along the river. It is a great groundcover for sun to shade.

Tom's grandfather, Tom Dodd, Sr., started Tom Dodd Nurseries, Inc. around 1920. His father, Tom Dodd, Jr. ran what could be called the premiere nursery in this country if not the world from the 1960s to the 1990s. Other family members took over and the corporation (business and land) was eventually sold in 2004. Jack Williams, John Williams, Twin Oaks Nursery and the Williams Co have owned and operated that nursery since then under the same name. There are no members of the Dodd family at Tom Dodd Nurseries. There is no family or business connection between Tom Dodd Nursery and Dodd & Dodd Nursery. They are a 50+ acre big box supplier and we are a 10 acre niche nursery located right across Wulff Rd. from them. It is confusing and we get asked about this all the time.

It has been a tough few years for the nursery industry. We appreciate your support, your business and your friendship and look forward to working with you in the future. Please call if you have any questions or requests.

Tom & Thayer & "Big Al"

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