Thirty years ago, in 1989, I bought a soybean field in Montgomery County, Maryland, to start the home of the Living Fence, an evergreen tree farm. Our contracting company, Earth Beautiful, Inc had been up and running for 9 years by then. Having already planted an enormous amount of evergreens for privacy screening at our landscape customers’ properties, I needed to grow the business more.
Sending myself to the Irrigation Association’s winter school in 1984, the skills to irrigate the crop were in place. As a long-time user of drip irrigation, I found it clear that the methodology would be prudent for the success of the nursery trees while exhibiting environmental stewardship through water conservation. Graduating from the University of Maryland in 1976 with an agriculture degree provided the science background to grow 8,000 evergreen trees for the future.
In 30 years of planting trees and growing living fences, Pryor’s Nursery has sold over 64,000 trees. That is a lot of biomass filter to help the metro area reduce its carbon footprint. Working in the metro area since 1981, Earth Beautiful, Inc. has been serving the community for a total of 39 years. Pictures of the initial plantings at Pryor’s Nursery 30 years ago. We have come a long way! Check out our evergreen tree farm today.
Today, we continue to grow the most popular trees for privacy screening: Nellie Stevens Holly, Leyland Cypress, and Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae on our 10-acre evergreen tree farm in Damascus, Maryland.
About the Author: Wade Pryor is a professional botanist and the founder of Pryor’s Nursery . Since 1981, he has installed over 82,000 evergreen trees, specializing in “Living Fence” privacy screens across the Mid-Atlantic region. Learn more about Wade’s expertise here.
