Landscape Design · Edwardsville & the Metro East
A landscape plan from the people who grow the plants.
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery has designed and planted landscapes across the St. Louis Metro since 1981. Every plan starts with what’s growing on our own 40 acres, so your design calls for plants that already thrive here.
Start with a plan
Landscape design in Edwardsville, drawn from living inventory.
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery provides landscape design in Edwardsville, Illinois for homes and commercial properties, backed by 40 acres of trees, shrubs, and perennials grown on-site since 1981. Every plan specifies plants that are in stock and already acclimated to Metro East soil. Call (618) 692-0113 to schedule a design consultation.
If you’re comparing landscape designers around Edwardsville, ask each one the same question: where do the plants come from? Most design firms choose from a wholesale broker’s list and find out what’s actually available after you’ve signed. Our designer can walk out the back door and put a hand on the exact tree your plan calls for.
We design for homes and commercial properties, full overhauls and modest front-yard refreshes alike, so you end up with a consistently beautiful yard without the weekend work. A consultation here is a conversation about your yard, not a pitch. Call, describe what you’re working with, and we’ll tell you honestly whether a full design is what you need or a few good trees would do the job.
The process
How does the design process work?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery designs in three steps: a consultation walk-through of your property, a plan drawn around plants growing in our Edwardsville fields, and a handoff to the same crew that will build it. One company carries the project from the first call to the final planting.
The walk-through
We start at your place. We walk the property with you and talk through how you actually use it: where the kids play, what you see from the kitchen window, where water sits after a storm. Bring ideas, pictures, and questions.
A plan drawn from living inventory
Back at the nursery, your plan takes shape around trees, shrubs, and perennials growing in our fields right now. Want to see a plant before you commit to it? Drive out and stand next to it.
Handoff to the build crew
The finished plan goes to our own installation crew, the same people who raised the plants on it. Nothing gets lost between the drawing and the digging, and the work can be phased if that suits your budget.
Good question
What does a landscape designer do?
A landscape designer turns your property and wish list into a buildable plan: plant selection and placement, bed lines, hardscape like patios and walls, drainage, and planting sequence. At Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery in Edwardsville, the designer also knows the growing fields, so every plant on the plan is chosen for Metro East soil and weather.
Here’s what a Sugarloaf plan covers, in plain terms:
- Plant selection and placement, called out by name and size plain plant names: no Latin required to read your own plan
- Bed lines, lawn shape, and how you move through the yard
- Hardscape: patios, walks, steps, and seat walls
- Screening and privacy planting where you need it
- A planting sequence the crew can build all at once or in phases
The grower-direct difference
Designed from our fields, not a broker’s catalog.
Most designers pick plants from a wholesale list and hope the truck brings something healthy. Our designer walks the same 40 acres you can, and your plan is written from what’s actually growing out there.
The USDA puts our corner of Illinois in zones 6b and 7a, and every plant in our fields has spent its life proving it belongs here. When your plan calls for a shade tree or a bed of hostas, that plant is already growing a short drive from your house.
- Every plant on the plan is in stock on our 40 acres 150,000+ trees, shrubs, and perennials growing on-site
- Acclimated to Metro East soil and weather before planting day
- No broker markup passed through to your plant budget
- Straight talk on substitutions when a season sells a variety out
Managing a commercial property? The same math holds at bid time: plant costs come from our own fields, not a broker’s price list. See commercial landscaping.
Design questions
What folks ask before hiring a designer.
The same straight answers you’d get on the phone.
Is it worth hiring a landscape designer?
Hiring a landscape designer usually pays for itself on any project bigger than a single bed. A plan catches expensive mistakes on paper instead of in your yard: the tree that outgrows its corner, the patio that drains toward the foundation. At Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery, the plan is drawn around plants already growing in Edwardsville soil, so what’s on paper is what’s actually in stock.
How much does landscape design cost?
Landscape design cost depends mostly on three things: the size of the property, how much hardscape the plan includes, and how mature you want the plants to be on day one. A front-bed refresh and a full backyard with a patio are very different projects. Call Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery at (618) 692-0113, describe your yard, and you’ll get a straight answer on what your project would involve.
Can I have a few trees planted without a full landscape redesign?
Yes. Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery takes small planting jobs as gladly as full redesigns. Pick out a few trees or shrubs at the Edwardsville nursery, and the crew that grew them can put them in the ground. You don’t need a full plan for a simple planting. Ask about delivery and planting when you call (618) 692-0113.
Schedule a design consultation.
Call and tell us what you’re picturing. We’ll talk through your property, the process, and what’s growing in the fields right now. Owner A.J. Kansal answers customer questions himself.