The Mustard Seed combines ideas, products and services, expertly crafted, into unique landscapes that enhance your lifestyle and property. Our goal is not simply to meet your expectations, but rather to exceed them.

Our designs can include patios, retaining walls, perennial gardens, foundation plantings, water features, gazebos, ponds, decks, fences and more. If you can imagine it, we can design it.

Design Process

How Our Consultation Works

Whether you want to install your own landscape or have us do the dirty work, let's get started transforming your space! 

Get Inspired

Come to the Garden Center, browse and ask questions! Review our Portfolio and search online for examples of the kind of project you are dreaming of. Browse our Plant database.

Set up a Design Consultation

Complete the Landscape Estimates form or call us at 952.445.6555.

We provide 1 hour appointments at your home or at the Garden Center. During that appointment, we will evaluate your needs, recommend some possible solutions, and discuss any additional costs to proceed with a design.

The initial 1 hour design consultation is free. For appointments at your home, projects should be expected to be $3000 or more.

Regardless of the size of your project, we'd like to help. Whether you need a pergola or arbor, a patio or wall, an intimate water garden or a foundation landscape, contact us today and let's get started.

You will receive an email confirmation.

Once you schedule an online appointment.

Design

Whether you need a detailed plan or a rough sketch, the design process will save time and money by ensuring continuity and flow, even if the work is implemented in phases.

We will work with you to create a landscape design that is functional, aesthetically pleasing, and in harmony with the natural environment. Using elements of color, form, line, scale and texture, we combine ideas, products and services, expertly crafted, into unique landscapes that enhance your lifestyle and property.

We will provide you with plant and material suggestions and estimates of cost.

Approval and Installation

Once you approve a plan and make the deposit we will schedule delivery and/or installation of plants and materials on a first come first service. Our highly-trained team will arrive on time and will complete the work to your high standards and ours. See examples on our Portfolio page.

Expertise

The Mustard Seed team has been recognized for horticultural knowledge, leadership and service to the community. When you buy from us, we provide the highest quality materials, installed by highly-trained professionals, so you get your money’s worth. Many years of experience, ensure that your project is installed correctly, on time, and without surprises - and that it lasts!

Our core team members are Certified Nursery and Landscape Professionals by the MNLA (Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association). The Mustard Seed is licensed by the State of Minnesota as a Technology Systems Contractor; we employ Certified Illuminologists, and Commercial Chemical Applicators. We have installed award-winning landscapes and are regularly asked to provide workshops and seminars.

Patios and Retaining Walls

We follow ICPI (The Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute) standards for paver installation so that your investment retains its function and beauty for years to come. Our craftsmen attend "continuing education" classes each year, keeping up to date on the latest products, techniques and equipment. We are always on the cutting edge.

Landscape and Garden Maintenance

If you are interested solely in maintenance services, click below. Our maintenance services include, but are not limited to: trimming, plant removal, mulch installation, pond cleanings, and spring and fall cleanups.