You'll Find Real Gardeners Here at Melport Meadows!

You'll Find Real Gardeners Here at Melport Meadows!

We'll help you find the solutions that fit your landscaping goals.

A garden with many plants and pots of flowers.

What We Offer

What We Offer
  • Hardy, Wisconsin-Grown Nursery Stock
  • Shrubs
  • Trees
  • Perennials
  • Edibles: Fruit Trees, Berry Plants & Bushes, Grapevines, Asparagus & Rhubarb Bunching Onions
  • Landscape Design and Installation
  • Re-Landscaping Older Homes for "One Simple Price!"
  • Natural Hardwood Bark Mulch & Black Dirt in Bulk

Meadows Landscape Nursery: Growers

As a growing local retail and wholesale nursery, our goal is to provide plenty of small plants that are reasonably priced, easy to transport, and easy to plant...as well as a nice selection of large landscape specimens that will make an immediate statement. We have a wide selection of trees grown in our Root Pouch root pruning pots, and we have an increasing number of varieties of trees grown in the field in RootMaker field bags, all with a strong, ready-to-take-off root system.

Many of our plants are propagated from cuttings, seed, and division right here at Melport Meadows. Other items are brought in as young stock and grown out until ready for their new home in a landscape. We also bring in already finished stock, and Larry makes trips to Tennessee, Michigan, Northern Minnesota, and Oregon every spring to personally bring back bare roots, liners (young plants ready to grow out), and containerized stock.

A garden with many different plants and trees.
A close up of some purple flowers with a white border

There are availability pages here on our website under "Inventory." At this point, everything that we're growing is listed (this is changing continually, so updates happen as we are able to keep up), but everything that is listed is not yet ready to be planted out in a landscape. Other things come in various sizes. We wish we could include sizes, numbers available, and prices...but all of this is more than we can keep up with as a small family nursery.

Generally, our 1-gallon shrubs are priced at $9.97, 2-gallon shrubs are priced at $15.97, and 3-gallons at $26.97. Trees, Evergreens, and Branded/Patented plants are a few dollars more. There are also a multitude of larger plants of all types and sizes. We also have a good selection of Proven Winners Shrubs....3 gals are usually priced at $29.97. Larger 3-gallon plants, such as many of our extensive selection of hydrangeas, are $39.97.

We have trees priced similarly to the shrubs in 5 to 25-gallon root pruning pots. There is an increasing selection of RootMaker(tm) trees from the field awaiting new homes, and some others in plastic that we bring in as needed to round out the selection. Check out our varieties of the tab under "Inventory."

We also have a huge selection of perennials, including ornamental grasses, daylilies, hostas, and peonies. Quart Perennials and Herbs at $3.97, Half Gallon Perennials/Herbs at $4.97, and Gallon Perennials/Herbs at $6.97; 2-gallon perennials at $7.97; Ornamental Grasses and Daylilies are $9.97 (non-patented); Proven Winners/patented varieties are more. Hosta varieties are $6.97 to $14.97. Peonies are priced at $21.97. Clematis is $15.97 - $21.97.

We have all types of edibles, from fruit trees to berry plants and bushes, and from grapes to asparagus.

A garden with purple flowers and green plants.
A bunch of fruit hanging from the tree

WE OFFER A 10% DISCOUNT ON ALL ORDERS OF $500 OR MORE.

All of this takes time (not to mention a bit of that paper-green stuff!) to get new things growing. We're constantly adding new varieties. Let us know if there's something you'd like to see us offer, or if you want us to see if we can find it for you. The earlier you place a request for special orders or quantities of a single plant, the better the chance we will be able to grow or locate it for you.

Melport Meadows Landscape Nursery: Our Growing Methods

Most of our trees and shrubs are being grown in above-ground root pruning bags. We've found that our growing methods are very helpful in overcoming many of the problems associated with growing plants in containers. Sometimes, a tree will fail after it seems to be establishing well in the landscape. This is often due to tangled roots inside the containers that the tree grew in. Our root pruning pots avoid this scenario. Eventually, the growing roots strangle the tree. Trees grown with root pruning methods and from bare root field-grown stock have myriads of outwardly-facing, actively-growing root tips ready to establish themselves quickly once planted, with very little setback time.

Our larger specimen trees, many of which are available to go to their new homes now, are being grown in the field in in-ground RootMaker™ containers.

A close up of pink flowers with green leaves
Two pink flowers with yellow centers in a garden.

The advantages of the above-ground containers are:

  • Plants develop dense, fibrous root systems.
    As roots grow out through the container, they are pruned off by air contact, stimulating many new feeder roots to develop.
  • Roots cannot circle the pot. 
  • Better protection from winter cold.
  • Keeps roots cooler in summer heat,
  • Allows air and water to freely pass, helping prevent root rots.
  • Plants can thrive, growing to a larger size in a smaller pot.
  • Eliminates transplant shock.
  • Allows a recently potted plant to be planted into a landscape without suffering from having its roots were disturbed before becoming established in the potting medium.
  • Plants are poised to grow when planted in the ground, with myriads of actively growing root tips ready to grow out into the surrounding soil.
  • Most (but not all) of our above-ground fabric pots are biodegradable.
  • Plants in biodegradable pots can be planted without completely removing their containers, though, for best results, we recommend taking them out. Additionally, there is no coiled, pot-bound mess that needs to be untangled before planting.

Additional benefits of RootMaker™ in-ground bags are:

  • Root pruning takes place by means of constriction rather than air pruning.
  • Trees do not require a tree spade to harvest.
  • Trees keep 95% of their root system, as opposed to balled-in-burlap trees, which live up to 90% of their roots in the field.
  • Trees can be dug any time of year that the ground is not frozen, as long as it is not during a time of extreme heat or drought.
  • Root balls are much lighter and easier to handle than balled-in-burlap.
A garden with bushes and flowers in the foreground.
A garden with many plants and flowers in it

Environmental Benefits of the Biodegradable Bags - Root Pouch™:

  • Pots will break down in landfills.
  • Made of 100% recycled materials.
  • Leaves a smaller carbon footprint.
  • Reduces the number of plastic water bottles entering landfills.
  • Does not require one drop of new "fossil" fuel to create.

Melport Meadows Landscaping

We began as landscapers before we were growers, beginning with community service jobs as Master Gardeners and then progressing to other farms, homes, and businesses in the area. The most well-known work that we've done is the Cashton Village Garden next to the Community Center: we invite you to take a stroll down the cobbled path and enjoy the gardens next to the community center. Visit our landscaping page for more info on our offerings, including tree planting services.

We've also partnered up with Jordan Glanzer at Tri-State Landworks to provide expanded services, including retaining walls, new lawns, re-grading and land drainage solutions, and parking lot and driveway construction.

Our landscapers especially enjoy our "re-landscaping" niche....taking a home with overgrown foundation plantings and giving it a modern, easy-care makeover. They'll install curved, mounded beds, a couple of specimen plants, and a team of supporting plants, complete with a thick layer of mulch. All of this, including removing the old plantings and a complete clean-up, is wrapped up into one simple price.

New for 2024: Landscape Bed Maintenance and Pruning. We can schedule a one-time clean-up or ongoing maintenance.

A bunch of trees in pots on the ground
A row of potted plants in the middle of a garden.

Melport's Display Gardens

We have several garden areas with plants labeled so you can see what specimens look like as they grow in the landscape. You are welcome to tour these. As we have time to work on them, we will continue to add the varieties we have available to our in-ground displays. Strolling through our gardens, you can see how the plants will look as they mature.

A garden with lots of plants and flowers.
A close up of some plants with pink and green leaves

Our History

Lisa and their daughter Anna have always been ardent gardeners and landscapers on a personal level. We took the Master Gardener course as part of Anna's high school curriculum. In the process of doing the required community service, we began to get requests to do landscaping for local homes and businesses. We started growing plants in the spring of 2014, and then, in 2015, we began offering those plants for sale in our retail area at our farm. As we continued to do more and more landscaping jobs, we thought it would be much easier if we could grow the plants we like to use in our landscape projects rather than having to search for them. The opportunity seemed to present itself in early 2014 when Earl, Lisa's father-in-law (then 92 and a recent widower), expressed a willingness to help her get started. Anna agreed to take over the landscaping end of things while Lisa and Earl focused on growing. Larry, Lisa's husband, is now also very involved in running the nursery.