The design desk, Greenhouse 2
Garden design & planting
Planting plans from the people who grow the plants: a design desk in the store, home visits, and a crew that plants what you buy.
Plant tag
- Design desk
- $75 session
- Home visit
- $250 to $450
- Best booked
- January to March
- Planting
- 2-year guarantee
What you'll find
How it works
Our design desk plans gardens, foundation plantings, hedges and borders around the plants we actually carry, so the plan you get is one you can buy this season. We plan and plant. We don't build patios, walls or decks, and when you need that work we'll give you the names of local hardscape contractors.
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Design desk session
Forty-five minutes at the desk with your photos and measurements. You leave with a sketch and a plant list priced from current stock.
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Home visit and planting plan
We walk the yard, check light and soil, and send a scaled plan with a plant list and an itemized planting quote.
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Planting service
Our crew plants the trees, shrubs and perennials you bought, with amended soil, a mulch finish and a two-year guarantee.
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Seasonal containers
We fill your porch pots and planters for spring, summer, fall or the holidays. Bring the pots in or we come to you.
Prices
Price examples
- Design desk session 45 minutes in store, credited toward plants over $500
- $75
- Home visit and planting plan depends on yard size
- $250 to $450
- Shrub planting per shrub
- $30 to $45
- Tree planting up to 2.4 m
- $95 to $150
- Perennial bed planting per 10 plants
- $40 to $60
- Filled porch pot per pot, plants and soil included
- $85 to $240
Examples only. Every planting job gets a written quote first, and the plant prices on it match the tags in the yard.
Guarantee
- Trees and shrubs planted by our crew
- 2 years from planting
- Not covered
- Pots kept outside over winter, animals, drought
- You get
- The same plant again, or store credit
Ask our staff
Good to know before you buy.
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What to bring
Photos of the space from a few angles, rough measurements, which way it faces, and a note about anything that already grows well (or keeps dying) nearby.
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Winter is design season
Sessions booked between January and March give you a plan before the spring rush, and we can hold plants for you when they arrive.
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What we don't do
Patios, retaining walls, grading, irrigation and lawn care. We'll gladly refer you to a hardscape contractor and coordinate the planting afterward.
Questions
Asked at the till this week.
Do I have to buy the plants from you?
The plan lists plants from our stock so you can buy it in one trip, but it's yours to use however you like.
Is the design fee refunded?
The $75 desk session is credited back when you buy more than $500 of plants within 60 days.
Can you just plant what I already bought?
Yes, if you bought it here. Planting is priced per plant, and those plants get the two-year guarantee.
Call or send a note, we confirm a time
Loamwood Garden Centre
Order ahead, or just drive over.
Pull up at curbside and we'll load it, or pick a delivery day for mulch, soil and big trees. We confirm every order by phone before anything is charged.