O’Fallon, Illinois · about 25 minutes from the nursery
O’Fallon has plenty of landscapers. Hire the one that grows the plants.
One of the fastest-growing towns in the Metro East has no shortage of crews bidding on its yards. Here is what none of the others bring: our plants come off our own 40 acres, and we have been growing them since 1981.
Landscaping for O’Fallon
Who does landscaping in O’Fallon, Illinois?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery handles landscape design, installation, and plants for O’Fallon homeowners from its own 40-acre nursery in Edwardsville, about 25 minutes north. The family has grown its own stock since 1981, so the company that plants your beds is the same one that raised the plants. Call (618) 692-0113 to talk it through.
O’Fallon has grown faster than just about any town on this side of the river, with Scott Air Force Base moving families in and new subdivisions filling in around Green Mount Road. All that new lawn draws a crowd of landscaping companies, and plenty of them are decent installers. The difference is where the plants come from.
Most crews order their stock through a wholesale broker and meet the plants on delivery day, same as you. Sugarloaf’s landscape design and installation crews plant stock the company raised itself, on the same 40 acres where you can walk the rows and watch next year’s trees coming up.
The grower-direct difference
What changes when the contractor is the grower?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery grows more than 150,000 plants on 40 acres in Edwardsville, then designs and installs with that same stock. No wholesale broker, no mystery truckload from another climate, no finger-pointing between the nursery and the installer. One family has run the whole operation since 1981.
Install plants someone else grew
Stock ordered through a broker, trucked in from wherever it was cheap that week, with a markup riding along in the middle. The crew planting your beds meets those plants the same morning you do, and nobody on site watched them grow.
Plant what we raised ourselves
More than 150,000 plants growing on 40 acres, picked from our own rows for your project. The trees and perennials are already used to Metro East clay and zone 6 winters, and the people who raised them are the ones planning and planting your yard.
When the grower and the installer are the same family, there is nobody in the middle to pay and nobody in the middle to blame. It has worked that way since 1981, and it is the one thing no other company working O’Fallon can copy without buying a farm.
On price
Do grower-direct prices hold up in a competitive market?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery keeps prices reasonable because the plants come off its own fields, with no broker markup riding along. O’Fallon quotes get compared, and that is fine by us: a company that has sold plants at fair prices since 1981 does not mind being shopped against anyone.
★★★★★
“All the big box stores had nothing and the other independent nursery in town had a fair supply but the prices were ridiculously high. Checked out Sugarloaf and was glad I did. The prices were very reasonable for these healthy plants. The owner was very helpful too.”Susan M. · 5★ · Google
Susan found us after striking out at the big boxes, and her math travels the 25 minutes to O’Fallon just fine. Growing the plants ourselves is not a slogan; it is the reason the numbers on our quotes look the way they do.
Planting notes for zone 6b
What grows well in O’Fallon’s newer yards?
O’Fallon sits in USDA zone 6b, right at the 7a line, the same growing zone as Sugarloaf’s fields 25 minutes away in Edwardsville. Plants raised here have already handled Metro East clay and winters before they reach your yard, which matters most in subdivisions where builders left thin topsoil over compacted ground.
If your lot is in one of O’Fallon’s newer neighborhoods, odds are the builder graded off the good soil and sodded over what was left. Plants that grew up in Metro East ground take that transition better than stock shipped in from milder places. And if a bare new yard needs its first real tree, University of Illinois Extension calls early September to mid-October the strongest planting window in Illinois. That is a fine excuse to come pick out shade trees in person or walk the perennial and hosta rows while you are here.
O’Fallon questions
What O’Fallon homeowners ask us.
Straight answers, the same ones you would get on the phone.
What makes Sugarloaf different from other O’Fallon landscaping companies?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery is the grower, not just the installer. The company has raised its own plants on 40 acres in Edwardsville since 1981, more than 150,000 at a time, so the stock going into your beds was picked from its own rows instead of ordered through a broker. One operation handles design, plants, and installation, and owner A.J. Kansal still answers customer questions himself.
Does Sugarloaf serve O’Fallon and Shiloh?
Yes, Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery serves both O’Fallon and Shiloh. The crews work throughout the Metro East, and since Shiloh borders O’Fallon, both towns are a normal run from the Edwardsville nursery, about 25 minutes away. Ask about delivery and planting when you call (618) 692-0113.
Where can O’Fallon gardeners buy perennials that aren’t big-box stock?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery grows perennials, hostas, and trees on its own 40 acres in Edwardsville, about 25 minutes from O’Fallon, and sells retail to the public. You can walk the property, see how the plants are raised, and pick your own. Weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. · Saturdays by appointment · Sundays closed. Call ahead and we will tell you what’s ready.
Get an O’Fallon quote from the grower.
Tell us what the yard needs and we will tell you what’s standing in the rows right now. Weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. · Saturdays by appointment · Sundays closed, so call before you drive out. Also serving Collinsville and the rest of the Metro East.