Brian graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a degree in Horticulture in 2010. He is an avid outdoorsman with a great respect on how his career within the nursery business helps to benefit the ecosystem. Brian loves to educate the Plants of Texas customers on plant selections from installing a xeriscape perennial garden, to installing trees to create a wildlife sanctuary and everything in between. He feels that his niche within working with Plants of Texas is his love for trees and how they are used within a landscape or wildlife scape setting. Every tree is different within its own ways, but he leans towards the Black Gum as being his very favorite tree of all. If you have never checked them out, stop in and ask for Brian. He would love to tell you all about them.

After moving with her family to Texas in 2004 from Queretaro, Mexico, Ermelanda found great pleasure in plants and trees, deciding to work in the horticulture/nursery industry.
Through her extensive nursery work history planting, trimming, fertilizing and using her skills for general growing and maintenance of trees, shrubs and colorful landscape plants, she has become a great asset to the retail garden industry. She loves camellias and they have become her favorite landscape plant at work as well as home. While at home she loves watering, pruning and cleaning the gardens as it has a tranquil effect.

Taking plant enthusiasm to the next level and bringing customers with him through his positive energy makes customer service easy to Gaby. Through his work history at the Tyler Zoo seeing the multitude of plants species and natural beauty they present, with exotic animals in an ever changing environment, has brought his need to learn more about plants and landscapes full circle. Gaby has successfully completed training and certification through the *Proven Winners Certified education classes and received certification in spring of 2020, giving way to learning the newest plants and how to grow and care for them and help clients with their needs. Favorite plant for Gaby is the camellia Nuccio’s Bella Rosa which is a japonica species known for its unique petal formation and color that brightens up a winter garden setting when little else is showing colorful blooms. And his outdoor garden favorite is the ability to transform areas of a landscape to become living art.
Gaby says that plants, each and every one, are art. A plant is an artistic design of its one, no two matching and each one telling its own story. He enjoys shopping, road trips, home gardening and everything music. Collecting rare or unusual plants has become a hobby much like his collections of peacocks, pheasants, ducks and tropical birds.