The art and landscape gardener Johan Wilhelm Merle accepted the position as head-gardener at the Bad Homburger Castle. He thus followed his father in law Hackel who had planted the famous Lebanon Cedar tree in the castle grounds in 1820.
					In 1866 his son and successor Georg Karl Merle - also head-gardener to the castle and good friend of the famous lndscape architect Josef Peter Lenné - aquired the princes garden which had belonged to the last Bad Homburger Landgraf Ferdinand. To this day this garden is still the domicile of the Merle family. Until his son Adolf Merle took over , he leased the property to his brother who opened a cafe and restaurant, the "Ferdinand Garden".
					In 1891 the art and landcape gardener Adolf Merle founded the nursery in the Ferdinands Garden and produced as well as sold fruit trees on the 2.2 has grounds.
					From 1932 his son Theodor Merle, a gardener with master degree, took over and continued the family buiseness and tradition. He added a large assortment of decorative shrubs and vegetables.
					In 1969 Theodor Merles daughter Annelie Merle took charge of the nursery. She also holds a gardeners master degree. She introduced the productuion of cut flowers and bedding plants and thus started to sell to private customers.
					Leo Peselmann who married Annelie Merle joined the nursery in 1974. Leo Peselmann is a tree expert and holds also a master degree in gardening. He enlarged the production of conifers, fruit trees, shrubs as well as trees. During the years the production of plants in containers and perennials expanded substantially. Today trees, shrubs, perennials and bedding plants are grown on 12ha (120.000sqare meters) and are mainly sold to private customers in the beautiful landscaped selling areas of 4 has (40.000 sqare meters).