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Iowa City Landscaping Our beautiful Garden Center at 520 Highway 1 West on Iowa City's west side offers the best selection of garden and landscaping plants in the region. You'll also find home accessories, artistic pots, exquisite fountains, aromatic candles, plant care products, seeds, seasonal decorations, and much more. We offer a wide variety of classes and seminars to hands on workshops that will please anyone from novice to expert.
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From design ideas to implementation, we've been landscaping Eastern Iowa for more than 30 years. Our projects range from simple foundation plantings to more elaborate construction projects including retaining walls, fencing, patios, water features, pergolas, outdoor lighting, and historical landscaping.
Our beautiful Garden Center at 520 Highway 1 West on Iowa City's west side offers the best selection of garden and landscaping plants in the region. Our helpful sales staff is ready to assist you with plant selection and advice. In fact, we have so much confidence in our products, we offer a full one-year warranty on all our woody trees and shrubs.
In addition to the following list of services, we can also customize a program to meet your specific needs or budget. Mulching - We can apply new mulch or top-dress existing beds, re-establish edging or tree rings with your choice of materials.
Founded in 1982 by brothers Paul and Dennis Dykstra and sister-in-law Linda Dysktra, our locally owned business is one of the largest Garden Center and Landscaping companies in eastern lowa. Founded in 1982 by brothers Paul and Dennis Dykstra and sister-in-law Linda Dykstra, our locally owned business is one of the largest of its kind in Eastern Iowa.
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Trice Young
May 21, 2022
They are literally the nicest people ever! I'm a plant newbie and decided to finally get one, but it'd have to have lower light requirements and be safe for my cat. They were super kind, offered advice, helped me check and Google different plants, talked with me and overall provided great customer service while I wandered around for 2hrs! They also were kind enough to give me a little note to help take care of my new planet darling, and I felt so welcomed and comfortable there! Thanks guys!
Dave Amhof
Aug 12, 2021
We really liked shopping there and found a couple of plants we hadn't seen back around home that we bought. A lot of nice stuff inside the building as well. Definitely worth a look.
Kevin Andrews
Jun 09, 2021
Great selection of plants especially roses. Knowledgeable, friendly sales staff. We bought a plant and through discernible fault of our own it died. We called and they handled the matter in a prompt and professional manner. Not that impressive on the surface but we only visited this business once and live across state. On the other hand they handled it like we lived around the corner.
Heath Geiman
Feb 19, 2021
We couldn't have been happier. Great service, prompt delivery and super professional! We'll be back!
Lyse Strnad
Jan 27, 2021
I have used Iowa City Landscaping for close to 40 years. When I was a newlywed, I wanted to do some planting. I made a list of the plants I wanted and went to several nurseries to compare prices and quality. ICL had the best quality and value. Though I try to do most of my own landscaping, I always call ICL for the larger jobs, such as pulling out old plantings and placing stone edging. Linda Dykstra is my go to for decisions about what to do. Paul and Joshua help plan. Ryan and Lucas came out and brought the plan to fruition. They were pleasant, hardworking and very kind. And our plantings are beautiful. Thank you ICL.
Melanie Hermes
Dec 04, 2020
Nice items and plants for purchase, staff not very knowledgeable and not interested in helping patrons. I won't go back and I'm a plant addict, too bad for them.
N. B.
Feb 15, 2020
The Garden Center is nice and their nursery lot is stocked with high quality annuals and perennials (although a bit pricey). Their landscaping service, however, is sub-par. We had Iowa City Landscaping complete a small/medium-size landscaping job and were disappointed throughout the entire project. The project was almost 2 months late and the quality of work was well-below what would be expected from a professional landscaping service.

We had to ask them to come back to fix portions of the project, and ended up having to re-do parts of it ourselves. We never received an apology. I recommend the Garden Center and Nursery, but definitely not the landscaping service.
Mitchell Manning
Feb 24, 2018
Always interesting to browse the isles and isles of plants. Just bought a piece of land and picked up a few trees from here, they delivered and planted them for us. One guy cut his hand pretty bad and had to go get stitches, but even came back from the hospital and finished the job! THATS service!
Stefdubz
Feb 09, 2018
The staff is so nice and helpful! They had exactly what we wanted and were very knowledgeable. The prices are great as well! We will definitely be returning
Pat Grady
Mar 13, 2017
I enjoy shopping for plants here because the people are very knowledgable and if they don't know the answer they find someone who does. The free classes they hold are very helpful and relevant to the IC area. I've bought trees, shrubs, annuals and perennials the quality of each is superior which makes me look forward to the end of the season sales The plants usually just need a little more TLC.