Professional gardening services

Des Moines, Iowa

Add some Sunshine to your garden!

Welcome to Sunshine Custom Gardens, a locally-owned professional gardening business in Des Moines, Iowa. Owner, Stephanie Petersen, is an experienced horticulturist you can trust to know what grows best and how to take care of it. Take a look at our gardening services to learn how we can make your landscape shine!

Seasonal Planters

Our custom seasonal planters for homes and businesses make the perfect addition to porches, front entries, decks, patios — anywhere you want extra color!

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Planting and Maintenance

Landscaping is an investment to make your yard attractive and inviting, so we want to make sure it looks amazing! We are experienced gardeners and will take special care of your plants.

What we do

Garden Design

We specialize in designing with perennials and shrubs and create a garden design especially for you that you can install yourself or let us plant it for you.

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Garden Consultation

We can help you define your goals and inspire a vision for your yard, identify plants, talk through problem areas and offer organic pest solutions.

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Kitchen Gardens

Growing your own food might be new for you, but not us. We can find the best areas in your yard to add edibles and make a plan so you can get started successfully. Want a really easy option? Check out The Sunshine Garden Box, an all-in-one raised bed kit.

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Garden Goodies

We love to make things with plants for gifts, holiday decorating, and special events and parties. Or maybe something special for you!? Watch for vegetable and herb starts, homegrown bouquets, smudge sticks, terrariums and more for sale in our store and on social media. We also welcome special orders.

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Happy Sunday! Misti Fae is loving this weather! So am I! Hope you have a great day! 🌞

Centerpieces for celebrating the life of a special friend's mama. She wanted "Iowa farm flowers". I used a mix of sunflowers, chamomile, ornamental grasses, black-eyed Susan, asters, chamomile, Joe-pye, roses and a little bit of this and th

Some big hail hit the metro today. First photo from my mom's condo in WDM and the other is at my house in Merle Hay hood. I cringe thinking of tattered leaves. But Patrick put it into perspective: first save the kitties (they came in just ahead of th

I love this 2 plant combo. 'Golden Tiara' hosta and ground cover 'Aurea' deadnettle (Lamium) work well together, offering texture with contrasting leaf shapes and a yellow hue to brighten up the shade garden. They're both easy to grow and will fill i

Don't let your plants miss you while you're out of town! We can water your flower beds and containers so they look great when you get back.

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The Sunshine crew has been working hard, even in the heat, to get gardens back to their awesomeness. Check out these dramatic before and after photos! We treat your yard as if it was our own, taking care of precious perennials and making everything l

sunshinecustomgardens@gmail.com
(515) 865-9940

Stephanie Petersen
Des Moines, Iowa