CEDAR PATH NURSERIES LLC

What CEDAR PATH NURSERIES LLC does

Cedar Path Nurseries LLC is a privately held wholesale grower and distributor of landscape-grade nursery stock founded in 2010 and headquartered in Lockport, Illinois. The company operates a sales and service yard in Lockport (15235 W. Bruce Road), located directly east of I-355, alongside a separate growing operation in Manhattan, Illinois, run by appointment. Across these facilities, Cedar Path cultivates more than 500 acres of container-grown and balled-and-burlapped (B+B) nursery stock, including deciduous trees, ornamentals, evergreens, shrubs, groundcovers, and perennials, with material stored above ground and ready for immediate pickup.

The company sells exclusively on a wholesale basis to professional buyers — landscapers, municipalities, golf courses, and park districts — and explicitly does not sell to individual homeowners. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; trade customers are directed to request availability, and the company distributes a current inventory PDF via its Squarespace-hosted website (cedarpath.net). Cedar Path markets itself as "Chicagoland's best value" on trees, shrubs, and evergreens, leveraging scale and integrated growing operations to supply landscape professionals at affordable price points.

Cedar Path is structured as an Illinois LLC with 11-50 employees, no disclosed parent company, no venture or institutional funding, and no M&A activity in the public record. Its go-to-market is direct, primarily through on-site pickup at the Lockport yard supplemented by a website, newsletter signup, and downloadable availability lists. The company maintains a careers page and uses an external applicant tracking system (jobs.appone.com/cedarpath) for hiring, indicating ongoing operational staffing of its growing and distribution operations.

Name

CEDAR PATH NURSERIES LLC

Legal name

Cedar Path Nurseries LLC

Website

https://cedarpath.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cedar Path Nurseries LLC is a wholesale grower and distributor of landscape-grade nursery stock operating on more than 500 acres across Lockport and Manhattan, Illinois. It sells container-grown and B+B trees, shrubs, and evergreens exclusively to landscapers, municipalities, golf courses, and park districts in the Chicagoland market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wholesale Nursery Stock

NAICS

Nursery and Tree Production (111421), Nursery and Floriculture Production (11142)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Plant & Nursery Stock Wholesalers (Grower-Wholesalers) (AFAGAHAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Nursery Contract Growing & Reforestation Stock Supply (AFAMADAK)

Keywords

• Wholesale nursery stock
• Landscape grade plants
• Balled and burlapped trees
• Container grown nursery stock
• Ornamental trees shrubs

Headquarters

HQ city

Lockport

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cedar Path Nurseries grows and distributes wholesale landscape-grade nursery stock — including deciduous trees, ornamental trees, evergreens, shrubs, groundcovers, and perennials — in both container-grown and balled-and-burlapped (B+B) formats, stored above ground and ready for immediate pickup at the Lockport, Illinois yard. The company supplies professional landscapers, municipalities, golf courses, and park districts across the Chicagoland area and explicitly does not sell to individual homeowners.

Product overview

Cedar Path Nurseries is a wholesale-only nursery offering landscape-grade nursery stock. They grow and distribute a full selection of container-grown material and balled-and-burlapped (B+B) material including deciduous trees, ornamental trees, evergreens, shrubs, groundcovers, and perennials. Operating across more than 500 acres, the company supplies professional landscapers, municipalities, golf courses, and park districts with quality plants at affordable prices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wholesale Landscape-Grade Nursery Stock Container-grown and balled-and-burlapped (B+B) landscape-grade trees, shrubs, evergreens, ornamentals, perennials, and groundcovers grown across 500+ acres and sold wholesale to professional landscapers, municipalities, golf courses, and park districts in the Chicagoland area. Material is stored above ground and ready for immediate pickup at the Lockport, Illinois yard; individual homeowners are not served.
• Container-Grown Nursery Material Container-grown landscape nursery stock — trees, shrubs, evergreens, groundcovers, and perennials produced and held in containers so that buyers can purchase and pickup material ready for transplant into landscape projects without balled-and-burlapped handling.
• Balled-and-Burlapped (B+B) Nursery Material Balled-and-burlapped (B+B) landscape-grade nursery stock — field-grown trees, shrubs, and ornamentals harvested with the root ball wrapped in burlap for transport and transplanting, stored above ground and ready for immediate pickup at the Lockport yard for landscape professionals and public-sector buyers.
• Featured Plants Showcase A curated highlight selection from Cedar Path's wholesale nursery catalog — featured specimen trees, ornamentals, evergreens, shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers — presented on the company website to give trade buyers a quick view of in-season standout material available for pickup at the Lockport yard.
• Wholesale Availability Request Service A wholesale ordering and availability service built around a regularly updated downloadable PDF inventory list and an availability request form on the Cedar Path website, enabling professional buyers (landscapers, municipalities, golf courses, park districts) to check current stock and request plant availability before pickup at the Lockport yard.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Hinsdale Nurseries: Western Chicago suburb wholesale and retail landscape nursery offering trees, shrubs, and evergreens to professional landscapers and homeowners. Directly comparable product mix and overlapping Chicago-landscape customer base.
• Star Roses and Plants: Wholesale nursery producer of woody plants, perennials, and roses for the landscape industry. Closely comparable as a wholesale-grower serving landscape professionals, though with a stronger branded genetics program.
• Johnson's Nursery: Wisconsin wholesale grower of field-grown and containerized trees, shrubs, and evergreens sold to landscape contractors. Similar Midwestern wholesale-grower model with comparable product mix and professional-landscaper customer base.
• Spring Meadow Nursery: Michigan-based wholesale shrub and woody plant liner producer serving landscape professionals and finished-nursery growers. Comparable wholesale-grower model with a focus on landscape-grade shrub genetics and B&B/container stock.
• Midwest Groundcovers: Wholesale grower and supplier of container-grown landscape plants serving Chicago-area landscapers, municipalities, and contractors. Direct overlap with Cedar Path on geography, product mix (trees, shrubs, perennials), and customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Bailey Nurseries: One of the largest wholesale nursery growers in North America, producing landscape-grade trees, shrubs, and perennials distributed across multiple states. Comparable in core wholesale nursery production, with broader geographic reach and brand depth than Cedar Path.
• Monrovia Nursery Company: National wholesale grower of premium container-grown ornamental plants sold through garden centers and landscape professionals. Overlaps with Cedar Path on landscape nursery stock and professional-landscaper customer channel, at significantly larger scale.
• Mariani Nurseries: Large Midwest wholesale container nursery producing a broad range of landscape ornamentals for distribution across the U.S. Comparable at scale on wholesale landscape plant production, with national reach versus Cedar Path's regional footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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