Over 40 years ago, a young college student, Tim Wallace, bought his first small dump truck. He parked it in a vacant lot just behind the family home. The truck, which always held a full load of black dirt, was painted with the word “TOPSOIL” along with a phone number. That was his first “ad campaign”. But it worked well. Locals couldn’t miss seeing the truck and the calls came into the family home. Dirt suppliers would drop off their load in the vacant lot. Tim paid his brother to hand-shovel the dirt into the truck. Tim would then make deliveries over the weekend. Before long, Tim was able to purchase a large lawn tractor to help load the material into his dump truck. Business continued to grow to include not just topsoil, but stone as well.
After graduation, Tim began to look for property to establish and run his now flourishing business. Eventually, he located a parcel in what is now, the village of Bolingbrook. For years Tim owned and operated not one but two Tim Wallace Landscape Supply operations – one in Bolingbrook and a 40-acre landscape yard and nursery just outside the Village of Minooka. After those successful businesses and properties were sold, he purchased a 20-acre piece of farm land on Scotch Road along the border of Plainfield and Oswego. It’s there that he once again created a nursery to grow his own trees and shrubs. After 40 years of selling trees and shrubs and several years of building and site development, Tim’s new parcel on Scotch Road has become the home of – Tim Wallace Soil Mix Supply and Nursery.
Tim continues as owner and operator of Tim Wallace Soil Mix Supply – which specializes in creating custom soil blends for the lawn, garden and planting beds. And to that we now add Tim Wallace Soil Mix Supply and Nursery which specializes in “growing what we sell” – the most popular shade trees, ornamental trees, evergreens and shrubs. At Tim Wallace Soil Mix Supply and Nursery we’re always “Growing with You in Mind.”
