About Crows Nest
When you get your boxwoods from Crow’s Nest Nursery, you are getting the country’s finest quality boxwoods. We were founded by Worth Crow over 50 years ago and thanks to him, we grow quality “worth crowing” about! At Crow’s Nest, we don’t take shortcuts. We don’t “ mass produce” anything. No cheap labor, no unnecessary machinery that gets in the way and does inferior work. We take pride in each boxwood that is grown on the farm, and we go the extra mile to provide you with the best boxwood for your needs. Every boxwood is hand trimmed, fertilized and maintained by hand, and when the time comes, each boxwood is precisely measured to your specifications and hand dug from the fertile, rich ground of the Blue Ridge Mountains! Our farm is located in western North Carolina and our boxwoods have gone all over the United States. boxwoods for Extreme care is given to ensure each boxwood is the perfect shape and if your order has multiple boxwoods of the same size, special attention is given to ensure that you get perfect matches for your order.
Our goal is not to race to the bottom in terms of price and quality in order to make a “quick buck”. Our goal is to provide the highest quality boxwoods for sale Atlanta, GA wouldon the market and to make you extremely glad that you got your boxwoods from Crow’s Nest! We plan to provide for you as much, if not more, of what you ordered from us in terms of size and quality. We stay in close communication during the ordering and delivering process to ensure all your expectations are met or exceeded, and to ensure that you are kept in the loop during the entire ordering process. As the founder, Worth Crow, is famous for saying: “If anyone ‘takes a hit’ we would rather be the ones than you”. In that spirit, we are here to serve you and make sure that you love the boxwoods you get from us!
Because of our high product and service standards, we have had the privilege to work with the finest architects in the industry along with the most reputable landscape firms in the country. Early on, we were fortunate enough to be discovered by world renowned and internationally acclaimed gardener, Ryan Gainey and word of our boxwoods grew from there. The well known, Atlanta-based, landscape architecture firm Planters has been installing our boxwoods for decades, and the national award winning firm, Carson McelHeney Landscape Architecture, is also another customer that has used our boxwoods since that firm’s inception. We have numerous other reputable architects and landscape companies that use our boxwoods exclusively.
One great benefit of doing business with such quality customers is that our boxwoods have been installed in gardens and landscapes that have won numerous awards and been featured in many popular magazines. Some of the magazines include Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Home, Veranda, and Home and Living Trends just to name a few. Some of the recognitions our customers have received: Luxe Residential Excellence in Design Awards 2022 and Georgia Design Awards (Atlanta Magazine). Crow’s Nest Nursery boxwoods were used in these award winning designs.
Part of what separates us from all the other growers is the painstaking measures we take to make sure our boxwoods have the ideal shape. We trim in such a way that we make sure our boxwoods are as wide (if not slightly wider) than they are tall. No egg shaped or “Coke can” shaped boxwoods here! And, after we’ve found the perfect boxwood for you, we don’t haphazardly jerk your plant out of the ground. We literally measure out the root ball size with a tape measure before we start digging to ensure the root ball is more than big enough to support the boxwood through the process of moving your boxwood from our farm to your garden. Additionally, during the digging and delivery process when other growers string tie the delicate foliage needlessly breaks branches and tears off leaves and causes string burn, we wrap all our boxwoods with appropriately fitting burlap which is soft and pliable and does not damage or compromise the boxwood in any way. And, once your boxwood is dug and out of the ground, we don’t just throw a sack around it or put it in a plastic container. We take the time to carefully root prune your boxwood so there are no “J” roots when transplanted. We are careful to create the tightest wrapped root balls as possible so the plant stays healthy and whole through the entire transplanting process.
In terms of your boxwood’s upkeep and care, every year in the spring we feed our boxwoods with the highest quality fertilizer and we spread limestone by hand to ensure each plant has the perfect growing conditions to become the fullest most vigorous plant it can be. We also take careful measures throughout the year to ensure our plants are protected from the pests and diseases that are common to the species. We are continually learning and implementing the best care and practices for boxwoods so you can be assured that when your boxwood arrives at your garden, you are getting the best and healthiest boxwood in the country. And, you can know that these are not some lab or greenhouse propagated plant shipped from thousands of miles away that may or may not have acclimated your particular climate and all four seasons. Our boxwoods are rooted and grown in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains and experience the extremes of all the seasons. The plants that are not hardy enough to survive here never make it to your garden. In the mountains we have sub zero winter temperatures with snow and ice along with summer temperatures that have been known to reach triple digits and just about every kind of rain, wind, sleet, and hail event in between. Our plants win the “tough plant” contest every day of the week!
Our encouragement to you would be to not settle for inferior, oddly shaped, questionable-health boxwoods. Invest in your property, invest in your inspiration, invest in your peace,serenity, and joy, invest in you. Get the boxwoods that are the best, get your boxwoods from Crow’s Nest!
Meet Crow’s Nest owner and founder Worth Crow. He is an architect by trade but dirt farmer by choice. He started the nursery in the mid 70s growing white pine and fraser fir Christmas trees and eventually started growing boxwoods. In the early days, he would load up his old Dodge van full of shrubs and drive 150+ miles away from the farm looking for nurseries or landscapers to buy his plants. He went into Virginia, Tennessee, and east to Raleigh, but eventually found a small company just starting out in Atlanta, Georgia named Planters. They have turned into one of Atlanta’s premiere landscape firms and have been using Crow’s Nest boxwoods for over 30 years. It is not coincidence that the leading landscape companies use Crow’s Nest boxwoods. The reason is because of Worth Crow. You will never meet anyone who is more meticulous and who pays more attention to details. His goal was never to mass produce and wholesale anything. His focus was to provide the highest quality, most beautiful boxwood on the market along with superior service. For the last 40+ years he has been grow quality “Worth Crowing” about.
Jason Conard is leading the charge in the next chapter of Crow’s Nest Nursery. Who better to take the helm and lead the company into the future than someone who has lived and breathed Worth Crow’s way of growing boxwoods. Jason is Worth’s step son, and he was tagging along with Worth making deliveries as a young boy back in the 80’s and has been mentored through the decades, not just on how to grow the finest boxwood, but also on how to live a life of integrity and how to run a business at the highest level of quality and service. He has seen firsthand ot just how to grow a quality boxwood that can last generations. He also has seen the fairness, kindness, and even unconditional love Worth has shown to each and every customer and he puts it into practice himself. His goal is to create a “win win” for both you, the buyer, and us.
Luke Hobart has been doing work with us since the spring of 2023 and is now full time. This man is full of integrity, hard work, and determination. With those combined qualities, we have found someone we can trust to help caretake our boxwoods and maintain the standards necessary to be the best. Luke is not afraid to sweat and get dirty and to do whatever is necessary to help provide the healthiest, highest quality boxwoods that you will appreciate and enjoy for decades to come