Teufel Nursery

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Teufel Nursery, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	1890
Headquarters	Portland, Oregon USA
Key people	Larry Teufel, President Don Hauenstein, Finance Executive^[1] Linda Teufel, Vice President^[2]
Industry	Nursery
Employees	~150 (2005)
Website	[1]

Teufel Nursery is a family-owned landscaping company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1890 by Gustav Teufel in the west hills of Portland, and is currently owned and managed by his great grandchildren Larry, Linda and Tina Teufel. Significant customers of the company have included Microsoft, the Portland World Trade Center,^[3] and the White House.^[4] The Teufel family also owns and operates Teufel Holly Farms, Inc. which sells holly and evergreens during the winter season and supplies holiday wreaths and garlands for the annual Oregon Episcopal School Christmas Wreath & Holiday Greens Sale.^[5]^[6] In September of 1997 the Portland Business Journal reported that Terry Thornton, a former sales manager of the "Wholesale Horticultural Supplies Division" of Teufel Nurseries, was installed as the 62nd president of the Oregon Association of Nurserymen (now called the Oregon Association of Nurseries),^[7] a post he has since left.^[8] In March of 2007 The Oregonian reported that Teufel Nursery, in partnership with Pivot Landscape Architecture and Cistus Nursery, installed a green roof on the M Financial Center in the Pearl District of downtown Portland.^[9]