Hundreds of trees grown at Wagner Farm and Nursery on Route 59 in south Naperville have found a new home before single-family homes are built on the nursery land.
The trees were moved to the Clow Creek Farm addition development, another new residential development near the intersection of the Book Road and 103rd Street.
Pulte, developer of the subdivision at Wagner Farms, gave the trees to Clow Creek upon the request of the subdivision’s developer, Nick Stanitz of Oak Hill Builders.
“When Wagner closed up, I talked to them and said I would like to get those trees and they said fine, take them,” Stanitz said. “We got them balled and bagged and took them over to Clow.”
Some of the trees are new, and others are four to six years old, Stanitz said. Each of the lots in Clow Creek Farm addition will include two or three of the trees. “It’s a new development, but it will have mature trees,” Stanitz said.
As the trees await planting, roads in Clow Creek Farm addition have been completed, sewer, water and gas lines are in and the electric work is done.
The Wagner Farm trees will be used in the park and green space being built behind the Clow Creek Park addition subdivision.