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Maldonado Nursery & Landscaping Inc.
Roy Maldonado's career has risen much like the sprouts produced in his nursery and landscaping business - heartily over time.
Roy is co-owner and co-founder of Maldonado Nursery and Landscaping Inc. along with his father, Rogelio, and his two brothers, Jerry and Oscar.
Roy's roots in the nursery business reach all the way back to the 1980s when his father and his uncles started a nursery in Kerrville. When Roy's uncles chose to go their own way a few years later, Roy and his brothers stepped in to help.
But it wasn't the first time that Roy got dirt under his fingernails.
"I grew up in a working family," he says. "We did yard work with our father. We always worked summers."
That experience and the strong work ethic demonstrated in the Maldonado family played a key role in Roy's career in the late 1980s when the Texas economy took a nosedive.
Roy had graduated from high school and was pursuing an associate's degree in building construction when the real estate industry collapsed.
At the same time, Rogelio decided that if his fledgling nursery business was to grow, it had to be in a larger city, so the family moved...