Landscaping services · Edwardsville & the Metro East
One company designs it, builds it, and grew what goes in the ground.
If you’re comparing landscaping companies around Edwardsville, start with this difference: Sugarloaf draws the plan, installs the landscape, and grows the plants on its own 40 acres. Fewer handoffs, straight answers, and a family that’s been at it since 1981.
The whole operation
What services does Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery offer?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery is a full-service landscape design, build, and nursery operation in Edwardsville, Illinois, family-owned since 1981. One team draws your plan, installs it including hardscape, and grows the plants on its own 40 acres. Homeowners, businesses, and contractors all start the same way: a call to (618) 692-0113.
Most companies on a comparison list do one piece of this. A design firm hands off the plan. A contractor orders plants from a wholesale yard, sight unseen. Here the plan, the crew, and the plants come from the same property, grown in the USDA zone 6b and 7a conditions the Metro East sits in. And yes, small jobs are welcome. A few trees planted is a real job here, not a nuisance.
Pick your path
Five services, one team behind all of them.
Every path below ends at the same 40 acres. Start where your project starts, or skip ahead and call.
Landscape Design
Custom plans for homes and commercial properties, drawn by people who can walk out and check the plant they’re specifying. Every design starts with what thrives in Metro East soil.
How design works →Landscape Build
Site prep through planting and hardscape: patios, walls, steps, and beds. One crew handles the whole install, and small jobs get the same care as full overhauls.
How builds work →The Nursery
Forty acres of working nursery, open to the public. Walk the rows, ask your questions, and pick from 150,000+ plants grown right where you’re standing.
Plan your visit →Trees
Shade, ornamental, and evergreen trees grown in this climate, so what you plant here survives here. Come pick out the actual tree in person.
Browse trees →Perennials & Hostas
Deep stock of perennials and hostas, including varieties the box stores never carry, at prices that don’t sting. Walk-in shopping, no appointment needed.
Shop perennials →Managing a commercial property?
Landscape installation and enhancement from an MBE-certified grower, family-owned since 1981. Plant costs at bid time come from our own fields, not a broker’s list.
Commercial services →The grower-direct difference
What does grower-direct mean for your project?
Grower-direct means Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery draws your plan, installs it, and supplies the plants from its own 40 acres in Edwardsville, Illinois. There is no broker in the middle, no trucked-in stock, and no mystery markup on plant material. The crew planting your yard is the same team that raised those plants.
Plants off a broker’s truck
Most landscape companies order stock from wholesale yards. The plants show up the week of the install, grown somewhere else, priced at whatever the list says.
You’re the install crew
A garden center can sell you a nice tree. Then it rides home in your trunk, and the digging, setting, and watering-in are your Saturday.
One operation, start to finish
The plan, the plants, and the crew come from the same 40 acres in Edwardsville. 150,000+ plants grow on-site, and the people who raised them put them in the ground.
In their words
One neighbor did the comparison shopping for you.
Big box first, the other nursery in town second, Sugarloaf third and glad she did. Plenty of neighbors have made the same loop. See how projects turn out in the gallery.
★★★★★
“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
Good questions
Worth asking before you hire anyone.
Three questions people settle while comparing companies. The same answers you’d hear if you called and asked.
What questions should I ask before hiring a landscaping company?
Ask where the plants come from, who does the installation, how long the company has been in business, and who will answer your questions along the way. Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery keeps those answers simple: the plants grow on our own 40 acres in Edwardsville, the crew that raised them installs them, the family has run the business since 1981, and owner A.J. Kansal answers customer questions himself.
Is it worth hiring a landscape designer?
A landscape designer earns their fee when a project involves grading, hardscape, or more plants than you want to place by guesswork. A good plan keeps you from buying twice. At Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery, designs are drawn around plants growing on our own 40 acres, so every plant on the plan is one we grew, already acclimated to Metro East soil.
Why should I shop at an independent nursery?
Independent nurseries carry deeper stock than big-box seasonal racks and keep people around who actually know the plants. Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery grows 150,000+ trees, shrubs, and perennials on 40 acres in Edwardsville, Illinois, so prices stay reasonable without a middleman markup and you can walk the rows and see the plant before you buy it.
Start with one phone call.
Tell us about your yard, your property, or the plant you’re hunting. We’ll point you to the right person, whether that’s the designer, the build crew, or a walk through the rows.
Family-owned since 1981 · Edwardsville, IL