In 1993, W. Guy Hood III founded his company in the rolling plains of Central Alabama. His concept for the business came not only from a unique blend of his interests and talents, but also from the name, which was given to him through an unusual course of spiritual inspiration. With the sweat and effort of two hometown friends from Selma, Emmett Wilkinson and Johnny Barnes, Hood formed 3am, Inc., establishing a company which provided a variety of services including Architecture, Planning, Landscape Design and Construction, as well as Horticulture. Since that time, the efforts and focus has been narrowed to the production of some of the finest quality field grown woody ornamentals to be found anywhere. Wilkinson and Barnes have moved on, but with new talented management in specialists Eric Leatherwood and Andrew Baker, Hood has assembled a team of professionals that will continue to broaden the horizons of horticulture. Our expertise in growing, coupled with the intimate knowledge of the related fields of design and installation, provides our customers with a quality of service unsurpassed in the industry. Our experienced office manager, Leslie Ogburn, is courteous, efficient, and eagerly willing to satisfy all your specimen plant material needs including arrangement of on site delivery upon request. We encourage each of our customers and future clients to come by and tour our nursery and the observe the care undertaken in the propagation, cultivation, digging and shipping of your B&B plant material and to personally meet our management team.

Interestingly, one of the first questions people ask about our company is,
“How did you come up with the name?”
Searching for what to call his new business, the name 3am kept recurring in the mind of the founder, Guy Hood III. With the many responsibilities of running a company, Guy thought that it might be an appropriate anachronism for ‘Three Average Men’. That analogy seemed reasonable, since we all are the same in the eyes of the Lord and it would always be a reminder that
it takes more than ‘One Average Man’ to run a company.
Discussing the new venture with his grandmother Ada Lee Hood, who with her husband, W. Guy Hood Sr., had farmed near the North Alabama town of Gadsden for many years, brought change to the fledgling concept. She suggested that there was nothing ‘Average’ about those who worked the land and that ‘Three Able Men’ would be more accurate. Certain of her Godly character and illuminated insight, Guy III knew this was somehow right but never really felt comfortable with proclaiming the name of 'Able'. During a particularly difficult period in the summer drought of 2000, Hood was questioning his direction and asking God for confirmation and, true to His word, the Lord answered this prayer. Guy kept receiving the words,“Three Abel Men, Three Abel Men, Three Abel Men.” Then it hit him, the Lord was talking about A-B-E-L, son of Adam in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, not A-B-L-E, like some strength originating from within. Guy III had simply misunderstood how God had used his grandmother’s divinely inspired suggestion to remind him always from whom good things come. The writer of Genesis describes Abel’s offering to the Lord as;“the firstborn of his flock and their fat, which conveys that Abel’s sacrifice was not only the best he had to offer, "their fat", but also that his faith was such that he trusted in the Lord to continue to provide by offering to God the "firstborn".
From that day forward, 3am Growers has been committed to offering our best in all that we do, yet striving to glorify the Lord first in our products, our service and our relationships: customer, vendor and employee. In this we have truly been blessed and it is our desire that through our relationship, God may bless you too through the offerings of “Three Abel Men.”