Horant's Gardener's Gate

Owners Don Lodholz and Rich Lodholz are graduate foresters with 87 years experience in the field of We are consulting foresters and have signed a consulting Forester Cooperative Agreement with the We have been in the wholesale nursery business since 1980, with our initial emphasis on transplant stock for Christmas tree growers. Since then we have built four greenhouses capable of growing 800-900, 000 trees per year, and have fourteen acres under irrigation for growing Hybrid Poplar cuttings, Hybrid Poplar rooted seedlings, bareroot conifer seedlings and transplants, and deciduous seedlings and transplants. We have gone into an intensive program of growing trees from genetically improved seed sources, acclimated seed sources and hybrid seeds to obtain pure strains of tree species featuring growth, color and size.