Landscape lighting washing a brick home and mature pine at night

Residential & commercial · Edwardsville, IL

The work, from plan to planted.

Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery designs and builds landscapes for homes and businesses across the Metro East, planted with stock from our own 40 acres in Edwardsville. Here’s a straight look at the projects we take on.

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Design & build

What kinds of projects does Sugarloaf take on?

Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery designs and builds residential and commercial landscapes across Edwardsville and the Metro East: front-yard overhauls, planting beds, paver patios and seat walls, retaining walls, shade and evergreen tree plantings, and commercial entry grounds. Every project is planted with stock from the 150,000+ plants grown on our own 40 acres.

Front yards & planting beds

Foundation beds, hydrangeas, perennials, and shade trees arranged so the house finally looks at home in its yard.

Patios & hardscape

Paver patios, seat walls, steps, and retaining walls, built by the same crew that handles the planting.

Tree & privacy plantings

Shade, ornamental, and evergreen trees from our own fields, planted a few at a time or by the row. Small jobs welcome.

Commercial grounds

Entry beds, plantings, and grounds enhancements for offices and business properties across the Metro East.

Ready to dig into the details? See how the design process works, what a build looks like step by step, or how we work with commercial properties. And if you just want a few trees planted, that’s a real job here too.

The gallery

Straight off the camera roll.

Real photos from our fields, our trucks, and our clients’ yards, taken by the crew as the work happened. No staging, no stock photography.

Rows of red maples in full fall color in the Sugarloaf growing fields — Red maples in fall color, growing in our Edwardsville fields

Fresh commercial planting beds and young boxwoods at a medical center entrance sign — Commercial entry beds, planted at a Metro East medical campus

A Sugarloaf flatbed truck loaded with balled arborvitae for delivery — Arborvitae loaded and leaving the farm for delivery

Freshly planted perennial bed with new mulch at a brick home — A residential bed the day it was planted

Sugarloaf crew digging a drainage line across a front yard — Drainage work in progress: the part of the job nobody photographs

The Sugarloaf crew working together on an install in the field — The crew, all hands on an install

Blue atlas cedar branches with a nursery tag in the growing fields — Blue atlas cedar, tagged and growing in the nursery rows

Variegated liriope in nursery pots with purple bloom spikes — Variegated liriope in bloom on the potting rows

The nursery’s three goats resting beside a limestone boulder — The welcoming committee

Design concepts

Styles we design and build

These four images are design concepts: representative styles of the patios, plantings, and grounds Sugarloaf designs and builds, not photos of named client projects. We’d rather tell you that straight than dress up stock photos as finished jobs.

Paver patio with seat walls, steps, and planted borders · design concept

Front yard with hydrangea beds, shade trees, and a flagstone path — Residential front-yard planting with hydrangea beds, shade trees, and a flagstone path · design concept

Layered garden beds with stone retaining walls beside a lawn — Layered garden beds with stone retaining walls and a shaded lawn · design concept

Office building entry with landscaped beds and groundcover — Commercial entry beds and grounds at an office property · design concept

See it in person

The best gallery is the 40 acres.

A design concept shows intent. A tree still growing strong years after planting shows results. Come walk the property in Edwardsville: rows of trees, fields of perennials, and the whole growing operation behind every project we build.

Weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays by appointment · Sundays closed. Call ahead and we’ll tell you what’s in stock.
Walk the rows and see plants at every stage, from cutting to ready-to-load
Bring your questions. Owner A.J. Kansal answers them himself.

★★★★★

"I bought a Hibiscus tree over the summer that stayed in full bloom until fall. They also let me look around the property at all the plants and processes. I love that Sugarloaf Landscape Nursery is located where the plants are actually grown, and not just a store front in town."

Patrick S. · 5★ · Google

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Before you hire

Questions worth asking first.

Two we hear from folks comparing companies, answered the way we’d answer on the phone.

What questions should I ask before hiring a landscaping company?

Before you hire a landscaping company, ask four things: where the plants come from, who actually does the installation, how long the company has worked in your area, and whether you can see the work in person. Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery answers plainly: our plants grow on our own 40 acres in Edwardsville, the crew that grew them plants them, we’ve been family-owned since 1981, and you’re welcome to walk the property. Call (618) 692-0113 with the rest of your list.

Is it worth hiring a landscape designer?

Hiring a landscape designer is worth it for most projects bigger than a single bed: a plan matched to your soil, sun, and budget prevents expensive do-overs and replanting. Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery draws designs around stock grown on its own 40 acres in Edwardsville, so every plan calls for plants that are actually available, fairly priced, and already used to Metro East soil. See how the design process works.

Start your project.

Tell us what you have in mind: a patio, a new front yard, a few shade trees, a commercial property. A five-minute call gets you a straight answer on where to start.

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