Smarter Landscapes That work for You
Since 1985 McPlants has been designing and creating the type of landscapes that bring greater value to your life and property every day. Unique custom gardens that spark your joy with beauty and easy maintenance.
Smarter gardens – not just bland landscapes with a few plants stuck in the ground. Our landscape designs relax and inspire you year round with seasonal interest while avoiding the high maintenance hassles created from poor design.

Understanding and addressing your outdoor desires, goals, and challenges with cost effective solutions are what McPlants founder Craig McManus calls “Solutioneering”.
The whole process starts by analyzing your property then creatively applying sound horticultural, arboricultural, construction, drainage, irrigation, lighting and art principles.
McPlants started as a retail garden center. Today McPlants is a landscape design/build organization with millions of thriving plants across our community, thousands of square feet of pavers and retaining walls installed, hundreds of structures built … and it was all done with useful, smart, and solid plants, products, and services.
A whole lot of time, effort and experience are applied to each project. Developing the solutions that work for you.
Custom solutions conceived from practical real-world garden applications we use every day.
Our mission never changes: We’re here to create the kind of garden you will cherish more and more every day.
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Yours Free for the Taking: Garden & Landscape Knowledge and Training

Get the very best tips, trends, stories, science, and design techniques for Landscape & Garden health, wealth, and wisdom – without the noise and fluff.
Today, McPlants brings you articles about what will work right now in your landscape with McPlants ‘Good to Know’ Newsletter.
Learn from Craig’s:
- 30 plus years of experience of what works best
- Knowledge gained from State, National, and International Certifications
- Hundreds of hours of continuing educational training and study
- Thousands of garden evaluations and solutions
- Creative and artistic insights
- Practical cost effective solutions
- Best Maintenance Practices (BMPs)
- “What to do when” in your landscape
- Money & Time saving tips
Multiply your landscape value and enjoy your garden more with fresh and insightful updates from McPlants.