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Merrifield Garden Center
You can really feel the holidays at Merrifield Garden Center. Yes, our driftwood is not only for aquariums and reptile habitats. Merrifield Garden Center transforms our select unique large pieces into beautiful home decor too. They have tons of excellent crafted items that you will surely enjoy.
*No drftwood pics for now as we just delivered but maybe on our next visit!
ADDRESS AND CONTACT NUMBER
They have 3 locations to visit:
Merrifield
Address – 8132 Route 29, Falls Church, VA 22042
Contact Number – 703-560-6222
Fair Oaks
12101 Route 29, Fairfax, VA 22030
Contact Number – 703-968-9600
Gainesville
Address – 6895 Wellington Road, Gainesville, VA 20156
Contact Number – 703-368-1919
Last Trip Done and Happy Holidays!
We are done with our last trip in December a week ago. It was a good run, visiting new and old clients in Virginia. Once again, thank you so much for your orders and support — and understanding. Caught the flu on the tail end of the trip thus we had to skip some stores, lest we spread it. I am feeling better now. I took vitamins and drank cough syrup immediately to help with the phlegm. My voice was hoarse on the third day of the trip. Horrible things. I have now finished my antibiotics and am not hacking as I was. Back in shape and ready again for our January 2024 delivery.
Happy Holidays everyone! Blessings from my family to yours.
2nd December 2023 Delivery Route
We will be back on the road again—a quick delivery around Virginia before we take a break for Christmas. If you are in the area and want driftwood delivered to your store, call us at 252-423-0095. We have bags of Malaysian sinking driftwood, interesting driftwood pieces on slate, real NC driftwood, manzanita, grapewood, and a few bird perches. See you soon!
- Virginia Beach
- Richmond
- Washington DC
- Maryland
- (Back to Virginia) Up around the mountains and south to Roanoke, Virginia
- Queensboro NC
- Charlotte NC
Manzanita and Grapewood are now back in stock!
We are happy to announce that our supply of Manzanita and Grapewood has already been delivered to the warehouse and is now being cleaned and prepped. We are now ready to take your orders for this type of wood.
YES, We’ve received your (form) inquiries
Just confirming that we have received your inquiries that you sent via our form. Thank you for being patient with us. Preparing and finishing trips made us all busy but now that we have finished our first (December) delivery, we will start to send pricelists, reply to your emails, and/or call you guys later.
1st December 2023 Delivery
We are so glad to be back on the road again. We left last December 3 and arrived home last night, December 8, 2023. We are grateful to our clients who warmly received and bought wood from us. Thank you so much!
Our delivery route is as follows: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.
For this trip, we brought spiderwood, NC ancient red cedar driftwood on slate (from XS-E sizes), we had loose Malaysian and NC wood, we had big ass wood from 3 ft to more than 5 ft, bags of sinking and non-sinking Malaysian wood, and bird perches.
We are also happy to announce that our supply of grapewood and manzanita recently arrived. We hoped to bring these woods with us on this trip –but the delivery didn’t make it. But for our next trip next week to Virginia, we are happy to inform our clients in the area that we will add grapewood and manzanita to the truck inventory.
Here are some photos from our trip!
Our clients create and sell the most interesting aquascapes. Aside from our driftwood, they carry man-made aquarium rocks, corals, exotic fish, and reptiles amongst other things.
It’s great to be home and we will soon be prepping for our next delivery in Virginia next week. Thank you again dear clients! Have a great weekend!
Russell Berry 1938-2019 RIP
Feb-Mar 2020 Delivery Route
In the coming few months the Driftwood Man shall be returning to an aquarium store near you. If you are in (most) places east of the Mississippi River.
I do still drive and deliver personally to all of my stores. I try and get to places at least 2 and in many cases 3 times each year.
I am currently working on Florida and Gulf Coast trips for the next several weeks to keep me out of any harsh northern winter weather.
I will return, like a giant bird, in the spring to all points north.
Early February 2020.
I am headed over to Charlotte NC, then to Atlanta.
On to Birmingham and Montgomery in Alabama and south to New Orleans. I will be in and out well before Mardi Gras, yehey!
After NOLA I am off across the Gulf Coast into Florida, down to Gainesville and then start looking to finish and return to the Outer Banks to refill, recharge and restock.
Following trip is a full on Florida extravaganza including SW Florida and then over to Miami. See you all soon.
For March 2020
- Chicago and Madison Wisconsin
- Upstate New York. New England
- New Jersey NYC area.
Sort of the Johnny Cash of driftwood, “I been everywhere Man!”
To know the exact schedule of my arrival in your area, Please call or message me, Greg Roberts, 252-423-0095 or email gregroberts13@gmail.com.
NC Driftwood on slate
Small 6″-12″and Size A 6″-10″
Driftwood small that is 6″-12″ and Size A 6″-10″ can be used as a dominant decoration or habitat piece used in groupings to establish a reef-like setting or hiding places for many species in a 10 gallon tank. These two sizes are perfect for plants in tanks of sizes 6″-12″
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