Houston’s Premiere Garden Center & Plant Nursery
The Gate (as it’s fondly called) is your entry to our symphony of color, fragrance, form, and function that can infuse your indoor and outdoor living spaces with personal warmth and beauty.
Plants are our passion – regardless of your primary aim when you visit us, you’ll find yourself surrounded by magnificent display gardens that can’t help but inspire your creativity. And because the Arbor Gate family includes so many experienced and dedicated gardeners and plant experts, your questions will be answered with an unusual depth of knowledge and know-how.
We look forward to helping you achieve your own vision, whether you come to The Arbor Gate for information, inspiration, or both.
Join us and our dragonflies — take an ordinary journey to an extraordinary place!
The Gate (as it’s fondly called) is your entry to our symphony of color, fragrance, form, and function that can infuse your indoor and outdoor living spaces with personal warmth and beauty.
Plants are our passion – regardless of your primary aim when you visit us, you’ll find yourself surrounded by magnificent display gardens that can’t help but inspire your creativity. And because the Arbor Gate family includes so many experienced and dedicated gardeners and plant experts, your questions will be answered with an unusual depth of knowledge and know-how.
We look forward to helping you achieve your own vision, whether you come to The Arbor Gate for information, inspiration, or both.
Join us and our dragonflies — take an ordinary journey to an extraordinary place!
Announcing the 1-2-3 Completely Easy System!
A system so easy, you can’t mess it up.
- One FOOD that feeds anything with roots.
- One SOIL for any application.
- One COMPOST that improves any and all soil.
- Completely organic, completely easy.
Announcing the 1-2-3 Completely Easy System!
A system so easy, you can’t mess it up.
- One FOOD that feeds anything with roots.
- One SOIL for any application.
- One COMPOST that improves any and all soil.
- Completely organic, completely easy.
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Plant Nursery
You’ll find the plant selection here at The Arbor Gate to be incredibly diverse!
One of our specialties is roses. The year we offer will over 100 varieties of antique, old and own root roses. The roses have been around for generations, and for good reason! Disease and pest resistant, these varieties require little care and will be highlights in your garden for years to come. In addition, we carry all the Earthkind varieties, which have been extensively tested by Texas A&M University for hardiness, long bloom time, and easy care.
Our display gardens showcase our plants in natural settings. Wondering what herbs grow in Texas? Looking for that cottage garden look? Think you have too much shade to get color?
Gift Shops
Our original shop, entered as soon as you pass through our signature arbor, carries anything and everything for the discerning gardener. Here you’ll find fertilizers, soil amendments, lawn products, garden hats, gloves, and gardening books.
A short stroll through our gardens brings you to The Arbor Gate too!, a treasure trove of amenities for enhancing the hospitable home. This delightful 1930’s frame house, discovered in the Houston Heights and moved to The Arbor Gate in the late 1990’s, is surrounded on all sides by stunning display gardens. The house, beautifully renovated, provides a unique environment that’s sure to stimulate your creativity and imagination.
Plant Nursery
You’ll find the plant selection here at The Arbor Gate to be incredibly diverse!
One of our specialties is roses. The year we offer will over 100 varieties of antique, old and own root roses. The roses have been around for generations, and for good reason! Disease and pest resistant, these varieties require little care and will be highlights in your garden for years to come. In addition, we carry all the Earthkind varieties, which have been extensively tested by Texas A&M University for hardiness, long bloom time, and easy care.
Our display gardens showcase our plants in natural settings. Wondering what herbs grow in Texas? Looking for that cottage garden look? Think you have too much shade to get color?
Gift Shops
Our original shop, entered as soon as you pass through our signature arbor, carries anything and everything for the discerning gardener. Here you’ll find fertilizers, soil amendments, lawn products, garden hats, gloves, and gardening books.
A short stroll through our gardens brings you to The Arbor Gate too!, a treasure trove of amenities for enhancing the hospitable home. This delightful 1930’s frame house, discovered in the Houston Heights and moved to The Arbor Gate in the late 1990’s, is surrounded on all sides by stunning display gardens. The house, beautifully renovated, provides a unique environment that’s sure to stimulate your creativity and imagination.
From the Blog
Time to Plant Cabbage
Fall is finally here, and it is high time to plant cilantro, parsley, gumbo onions, mustard, turnips, radish, spinach, Swiss chard, broccoli, and cabbage. Cabbage is a wonderful cool season vegetable with many uses. Perhaps it’s my speck of German genetics, but I love...
Houston Rose Society: The Anne Belovich Collection – The Sky is the Limit!
If you love old garden, antique, and heirloom roses, our October virtual meeting is not one for you to miss! Anita Clevenger is joining us to discuss ramblers and Ann Belovich’s amazing collection of over 350 varieties of rare ramblers that were located in the state...
Autumn Has Arrived
Autumn is a second spring in Texas and coincides with the leaving of the delicate ruby-throated hummingbirds and the arrival of the tough-as-nails oxblood lilies. Oxblood lilies (Rhodophiala bifida), also known as schoolhouse lilies, have the same growth cycle as red...
From the Blog
Time to Plant Cabbage
Fall is finally here, and it is high time to plant cilantro, parsley, gumbo onions, mustard, turnips, radish, spinach, Swiss chard, broccoli, and cabbage. Cabbage is a wonderful cool season vegetable with many uses. Perhaps it’s my speck of German genetics, but I love...
Houston Rose Society: The Anne Belovich Collection – The Sky is the Limit!
If you love old garden, antique, and heirloom roses, our October virtual meeting is not one for you to miss! Anita Clevenger is joining us to discuss ramblers and Ann Belovich’s amazing collection of over 350 varieties of rare ramblers that were located in the state...
Autumn Has Arrived
Autumn is a second spring in Texas and coincides with the leaving of the delicate ruby-throated hummingbirds and the arrival of the tough-as-nails oxblood lilies. Oxblood lilies (Rhodophiala bifida), also known as schoolhouse lilies, have the same growth cycle as red...
