Tree delivery and planting in Navasota

The ground in Grimes County: Upland soils cover much of Grimes County: gray sandy loams over clayey subsoils. Along the rivers and main creeks, Grimes County's bottomland soils are dark, loamy to clayey alluvium, and prairies of Wilson clay blackland soil run through the south of the county. (source)

Trees that already grow around Navasota: Grimes County sits in a transition zone: post oak savannah to the north and west, and to the south and east a mix of forest and prairie with dense stands of oak, elm, pecan and mesquite. (source)

The weather in Grimes County to plan planting around: Grimes County averages 40.5 inches of rain a year and a growing season of 278 days; July highs average 96°F and January lows 40°F. (source)

About Navasota: The Texas Legislature named Navasota the Blues Capital of Texas in 2005, honoring native blues musician Mance Lipscomb. The settlement was first called Hollandale after Francis Holland, who arrived in 1822, and took the name Navasota in 1854. After the Houston and Texas Central Railway reached town in 1859, Navasota grew into a regional shipping and trade center. Navasota sits in southwestern Grimes County just east of the Navasota River, a Brazos River tributary. A statue of lawman Frank Hamer, Navasota's city marshal from 1908 to 1911, has stood in front of city hall since the city commissioned it in 2012. Navasota has a bronze monument to French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, dedicated by the DAR in 1936 to celebrate his travels. Brule Field, a natural amphitheater built from native stone in the 1930s, hosted Navasota Rattlers high school football until a new stadium opened in 2007. Washington Avenue, the main residential and commercial street through Navasota, still has a number of historic Victorian homes. In 1980 Navasota was one of five Texas cities chosen for the National Main Street program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (source, source)