Decker's Nursery celebrates 100 years

Deckers Nursery has reached an important milestone of operating a successful business for 100 years. Since 1921, Decker’s Nursery has been providing high-quality shrub liners, specialty conifers grafts, and finished stock material to a local, regional, and national market.

The company was founded by Paul Offenberg and was called the Paul Offenberg Nurseries. Paul was a trained horticulturist and was the Royal Garden Advisor for Kaiser Wilhelm prior to World War I. The company has moved several times and in 1978 Bernard Decker, Paul’s son-in-law, moved the facility to the current location where he and his son, Brian Decker, Paul’s grandson, started Decker’s Nursery.

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Decker's Nursery is a wholesale plant nursery located on the southeast side of Columbus, Ohio. Currently Decker’s Nursery sits on 132 acres suppling quality plant material to 37 states and 2 providences in Canada. The company focuses on two major lines of production: liner material and finished stock material. Decker's Nursery is known nationally as a liner supplier shipping of grafted conifers and deciduate shrubs coast to coast. The nursery propagates 1.5 million cuttings and 250,000 grafts annually and partners with introduction companies to supply its customers with the latest in plant genetics. The company’s finished stock material is mainly grown in 1g, 3g, and 7g’s for the regional landscape and retail garden center market. With an eye on the future, Decker's staff has focused on innovation and efficiency to enhance industry processes and partnered with an e-commerce business to expand its online presence and grow this market in the future.

For more: www.deckersnursery.com