Just east of the Texoma Medical Center is an oasis of flowers, shrubs, shade trees, and benches designed to be a destination nursery offering premier products, and heartfelt plant guidance to the community. Once you arrive, their garden envelops you as a refuge away from your busy and stressful life and infuses a little peace and joy. A year ago, Corey and Kayla Albrecht began being stewards of Twin Oaks Nursery with a passion for encouraging and inspiring their community for their own garden or greenspace.
After 23 years in the corporate world, Corey desired to get back his roots and was ready to try something new. At the same time, Kayla, who had been raising and educating their kids for 20 years, was open to a new challenge. Corey took a sabbatical, and they spent a year resting and began searching for their next adventure that spoke to their heart and sense of community connected business. They found Twin Oaks Nursery, which had been in the same family for 45 years. The family who currently ran the nursery, were ready to retire and presented a perfect opportunity for Corey and Kayla.
Their first weekend as nursery owners was also Mother’s Day 2023. Mother’s Day in the nursery business is like Black Friday for our winter holidays. Kayla credits a great team, 80% of whom had stayed with the nursery during the transfer, for helping them come up to speed. This is a real family business today, with Kayla and Corey’s children involved. Their son, a Sherman firefighter, helps plant trees on his days off. Their daughter, in college, helps with background operations remotely, while their youngest, a home school high schooler, helps with social media and digital media creation.
The nursery supplies both retail and commercial customers. Corey has taken his bumps and bruises of corporate America and desires to grow Twin Oaks’ Commercial Supply into a more robust one-stop shopping for landscapers & construction. They provide all plants in quantity from 4 inch to 200-gallon trees, irrigation supplies, hardscape & the tools to be a successful landscaper. Twin Oaks has 20 full greenhouses and hundreds of trees out on the line to choose from in one place.
Kayla shares that their customers are interested in water conscious and native plants. Twin Oaks desires to find and supply plants that do well in our extreme summers and mild winters and can handle the few days of freezing temperatures. Landscaping can be a significant investment for homeowners, and they are looking for durable and reliable plants. The Garden Coaches provide guidance so each purchase is successful. Twin Oaks coaches will help customers make the right investment and avoid mistakes.
In the long term, Corey and Kayla envision creating a business more integrated with the community and a place of refuge for everyone. Their first step in this direction was sponsoring the Sherman Arts Festival and the Whitesboro Peanut Festival and adding a quarterly community fun event for kids. They have also given butterfly gardens to area schools, hosted pet adoptions, and given out seed packages to encourage families to follow the miracle of growing a plant from seed. In the future, they want to offer Mommy and Me story times, planting programs, family seasonal events, and educational classes such as beekeeping, rose care, and gardening for beginners.
The entire team at Twin Oaks exists to encourage and enable the community to build and enjoy their outdoor environments. Explore this amazing place tucked in between Hwy 75 and Hwy 91 behind the Texoma Medical Center, you will walk away with a smile.
Twin Oaks Nursery & Supply, 2107 FM 691 (Grayson Dr.), Denison, TwinOaksNursery.com