Millstone Japanese Maple Nursery is a family-run operation that took roots in the ’70s and has blossomed into a thriving Dadeville location complete with more than 200 cultivars.             

Paul Lowe graduated from Auburn University with a horticulture degree. After teaching high school science for 11 years, he started a nursery in the 1970s. Here, he and his family grew Japanese maples, along with other plants. When he retired, he re-located a few of his Japanese maples out to the countryside on state Route 50, just south of Dadeville. It wasn’t but a short time that it became a full-blown nursery keeping his wife, Glenda, and their children all busy.