About Sugarloaf · Edwardsville, Illinois
Family-owned since 1981, still growing.
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery is a working nursery and landscape design-build company on 40 acres in Edwardsville, Illinois. Here’s the story, the owner, and the record, so you can size us up before the drive out.
Our story
Who is Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery is a family-owned nursery and landscape design-build company that has grown plants on the same 40 acres in Edwardsville, Illinois since 1981. The family raises more than 150,000 trees, shrubs, and perennials on-site and sells them retail and wholesale, alongside landscape design and installation for homes and businesses.
Since 1981, this has been a family operation with one plain rule: grow what you sell. The trees, shrubs, hostas, and perennials on the sales rows start as young stock on this property and grow up in the same Metro East soil and zone 6 weather they’ll live in after they go home with you. It shows up in the reviews: trees bought here years ago, still growing strong.
Forty-five years on, the fields are still working fields: shade trees, ornamentals, evergreens, and long beds of perennials and hostas, in every stage from young stock to ready-to-plant. Homeowners drive out from Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, Troy, and both sides of the river. Contractors buy in volume. And the design and build crews plant that same stock in yards and commercial properties across the Metro East and the St. Louis Metro.
The best way to check any of this is in person. Walk the rows, look at the growing operation, and ask whatever you want to ask. Customers mention that look-around welcome in their reviews more than almost anything else. Start with the nursery page, or just call before you head out.
Meet the owner
A.J. Kansal, Owner
Family-owned means somebody’s name is on the place. Here it’s A.J. Kansal’s, and you can talk to him.
A.J. owns Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery and runs it in person. Read through the Google reviews and you’ll notice customers bring up the owner without being asked: he answered their questions, he was helpful, he didn’t rush anybody. Reviewers mention the owner because the owner is who they met.
Buying plants is a judgment call: which tree for a wet corner, whether hostas can take your afternoon sun, whether September is too late to plant. When the person answering those questions owns the fields the plants came from, the advice and the inventory have to agree with each other. Ask A.J. what will thrive at your place and you’ll get an answer grounded in what’s actually growing on the property.
Have a question about your yard, or a plant you’ve been hunting for? Call and ask. If A.J. can’t take the call right then, someone who knows the stock will.
Come walk the rows.
Call and ask your question →On the record
Credentials you can check yourself.
You don’t have to take our word for any of this. Every line below has a public record behind it.
- Family-owned since 1981 45 years of the same family operation on the same Edwardsville ground
- MBE certified A certified Minority Business Enterprise: verified minority-owned
- Certified by three government agencies The Illinois Department of Agriculture, the Missouri and St. Louis Airport Authority, and the Illinois Department of Transportation: the same standards that clear an airport project and a state highway job
- BBB file since 1996 Three decades on record with the Better Business Bureau
- 4.1★ across 21 Google reviews Quoted on this site exactly as customers wrote them
And one more line no certificate covers, from a customer who looked around the whole property before writing it.
★★★★★
“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
Certification
What does MBE certified mean?
MBE stands for Minority Business Enterprise, and Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery in Edwardsville, Illinois holds the certification: an independent verification that the business is minority-owned and operated. For homeowners it is one more sign of a real, established company. For commercial and public-sector buyers, purchases from an MBE-certified vendor can count toward diversity procurement goals.
Certification matters most in commercial work. Spend with a certified MBE often counts toward a company’s or agency’s own procurement goals, which makes the certificate a practical line item in a bid, and here it comes attached to a grower with 45 years of history and its own plant supply. Property managers and institutional buyers can start on the commercial landscaping page or call (618) 692-0113 and ask.
Good questions
Things people ask when they’re vetting us.
The same answers you’d get if you called and asked.
Is Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery open to the public?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery in Edwardsville, Illinois is open to the public. Anyone can shop the 40-acre property on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday visits happen by appointment, and Sundays the nursery is closed. Call (618) 692-0113 before you drive out and the team will tell you what is in stock.
Why should I shop at an independent nursery?
Independent nurseries grow or select their stock for local conditions, and Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery takes that further by growing more than 150,000 plants on its own 40 acres in Edwardsville. The plants are acclimated to Metro East soil and zone 6 weather, the selection runs deeper than big-box seasonal racks, and the people answering your questions raised the plants themselves.
How long has Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery been in business?
Sugarloaf Landscape and Nursery has been family-owned and growing plants in Edwardsville, Illinois since 1981, which makes 45 years on the same 40 acres. The business has held a Better Business Bureau file since 1996 and is a certified Minority Business Enterprise. Same family, same ground, same phone: (618) 692-0113.
Come see the nursery.
Reading about 40 acres is one thing. Walking them is better. Weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays by appointment, and a quick call ahead means we can point you straight to what you came for.