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Large trees shape the landscape and help us tell a story.

Over the past 40+ years Environmental Design, Inc. has established itself as the premier service provider for specimen tree supply and transplantation in the United States and throughout the world. Our comprehensive service offerings include large tree sourcing and procurement, as well as project specific custom growing, and in box/in-ground tree nursery establishment. We also offer turnkey tree harvest, delivery, and installation services.

Each of our offices, located strategically throughout the country maintains a fleet of state of the art truck mounted hydraulic tree spades capable of transplanting trees. We also offer project-specific custom tree digging, basketing, and boxing services. Environmental Design, Inc. maintains a national/international network of tree nursery relationships that allow us to source and procure any tree species your project requires. Our offices in both Southern and Northern California maintain box tree nurseries with inventories that include all conifer and oak species found through the region. Our office in Minneapolis services the midwest and specializes in hydraulic custom digging and transplantation. This office also provides sourcing and balled in burlap digging of conifers, deciduous maple species as well as oaks. Our central United States offices provide comprehensive tree services in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and throughout the southern states as well as housing tree farms. Our east coast offices located in Charleston, South Carolina services Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, the Washington D.C. metro region and New York.

A Few Of Our Amazing Clients

Our Team

Tom Cox

C.E.O.

Mark Merit

C.O.O.

Phillip Irvin

Phillip Irvin

C.F.O.

Paul Cox

Western Division V.P.

ISA Certified Arborist

Tony Bolado

General Manager - Big Trees Nursery

David B. Cox

Eastern Region V.P.

David Marks

Central Division V.P.

Jon Hillis

Austin/Dallas V.P.

ISA Certified Arborist

Jim Paul

Northern Division Manager

Jesse Shulse

Business Development - Corporate

Phillip Zellner

Business Development - East

ISA Certified Arborist

Scott Willard

V.P. of Operations - Houston

Frank Hughes

Project Manager - East

Clint Holloway

Area Manager - Central Texas

Don White

Project Manager - Austin

Suzannah DesRoches

Project Manager - Austin

ISA Certified Arborist

Levi Wooden

Project Manager - Minnesota

ISA Certified Master Arborist

Daniel Wagner

Business Development - DFW

Zach Elias

Business Development - Bryan/College Station

Agripino Salgado

Project Manager - East

Alex Burk

Project Manager - Houston

Dakota Smith

Project Manager - Houston

John Heallen

ISA Certified Arborist

Sandy Capezzuto

Controller

Ellen Lewis

Social Media-Marketing

Jeanne Klansek

Accounting Manager

Dita Nehme

HR Payroll Administrator

Joey Carlisle

Lead Mechanic

Jacob Cox

In Loving Memory 1981 - 2021

Mary Tooley

Accounts Payable

Our Crew Teams