Founded in 1890, the company maintains existing and installs new landscaping for commercial, government, and residential customers.

Later, and for about 60 years, the company also operated a large wholesale nursery on Barnes Road, in the Cedar Mill area, acquiring the property in 1946[2] and moving its headquarters to that site.

The company closed its operation in Cedar Mill in 2007, when the approximately 90-acre (0.36 km2) property was sold for redevelopment, and moved its headquarters back to its original West Hills site, on Miller Road in Portland.

[3] In September 1997, the Portland Business Journal reported that Terry Thornton, a former sales manager of the "Wholesale Horticultural Supplies Division" of Teufel Nurseries, was installed as the 62nd president of the Oregon Association of Nurserymen (now called the Oregon Association of Nurseries).

[11] The Teufel family also owns and operates Teufel Holly Farms, Inc. which sells holly and evergreens during the winter season and supplies holiday wreaths and garlands for the annual Oregon Episcopal School Christmas Wreath & Holiday Greens Sale.