For 94 years, the Howard family provided Austin residents with trees, shrubs, flowers, and other vegetation for their gardens and farms at their eponymous nurseries, one on Shady Lane in East Austin, and the other on East Koenig Lane north of Hyde Park. A third Howard establishment could be found for a time on Springdale Road near Givins Park.
The owners served iced tea and offered helpful horticultural advice.
All the Howard Nursery businesses had vanished by early 2006, but overgrown remnants of some nursery gardens remain…