Shades of Texas is a family-owned Nursery, operated by Jon Mathews and his family. Jon Mathews is a professional grower and landscaper with more than 30 years of experience, he started landscaping at the age of seventeen out of the back of his pickup truck. Today His company Shades of Texas grows, sells, and installs the best quality trees, shrubs, and plants in the greater Houston area. Over the decades, Shades of Texas has expanded into a multi-location, nursery supplier with two convenient locations.  Our Houston 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, and the 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.


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 one of the area’s largest growing operations and garden centers in the Houston city limits. Both our Houston and Magnolia locations offer topiary and specimen items, grown in-house, that you won’t find anywhere else.  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’s Houston location also provides professional landscaping services through our parent company The Lawn Stylist Inc. 


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Pamela Flayler - Pasadena, Texas May 1, 2015

“I really like the assortment of beautiful trees and flowers.”
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Robert Reese - Houston, Texas May 1, 2015

“Shades of Texas is amazing. Randy Lemmon knows what he talks about!!!” xxx

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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.”

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Carolyn Lee - The Woodlands, Texas May 1, 2015

“I love the Mathews, and I love Shades of Texas…they have the BEST selection in the USA.”,

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Ida Saldivar Torres - Deer Park, Texas May 1, 2015

“I have enjoyed the huge planter I purchased there…thanks for the great variety.”

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Wayn May 1, 2015

I had been told about the fertilizer called Denny’s by a friend a couple of years ago. So, I purchased some from your place to try. Sure enough, it made my grass look so much greener and stronger. This is the third year that I purchased some from your business and look forward to having the best looking yard again on the block. Thanks for being the only place around that I know of that handles Denny’s.