Planter’s Palette

Great place to start if you are planning a vegetable garden. I was impressed with the selection and really like their foldable tomato cages.

A gardening mecca! I love this place! They have everything you need for a piece of paradise!
We went on a cloudy rainy morning to get some flowers for our deck. We gave up on the front of our house since rabbits just eat everything. While they have your basics here like petunias and potting soil, they also have some unique items which is why we like to visit.
There are plenty of people walking around to ask questions and there are items outside as well as in a greenhouse, which was handy during the downpour.
I could just go here and walk around without buying anything!

Contracted with them to redo the back tree line of our yard. We started with some good amount of privacy from woody greenery across the 60′ wide lot line where we had several small trees creating a green curtain from the 1′ level through a height of 10′. Their contractor was to remove a few trees to make room for planting new trees to further add to the foresty look but ended up taking more than requested. He also took an unbalanced amount of limbs from another tree near the house that caused it to fall and need to be removed. Our backyard was bald. The replacement plantings were significantly shorter, sparser, expensive, and amounted to bushes were trees had been promised. Our desire to increase our greenery became a huge loss of money and a bald backyard that is worse than when we started. The communication was lacking throughout the process. Their foreman claimed their labor problems were our problems during the whole fiasco as the schedule to replant played out. The owner barely took any responsibility and largely disregarded our concerns providing us with mild financial adjustments of the invoice but mostly requesting to be paid for the overall destruction our green curtain.

My first visit was today after reading about it yesterday. What a pleasant place. Us gardeners start getting antsy around this time and sometimes we are too early in the season for anything spectacular to be available. Despite this they had a fairly good array of trees and shrubs. But the service was outstanding. I made a shrub purchase, inquired about a product comparable to Milorganite (my dogs love the smell and to nibble on it) and got a recommendation for something. I was welcomed for my first visit and went away with a brief history of the place along with a list of classes offered. I am positive sometime in May when this place really «comes alive» it would be spectacular.

I love this place! Been going for four years now, ever since I moved to the area. They always have lots of hosta to choose from (my favorites) and they do a great job in winter too, with roping, wreaths and poinsettias!

So they have an amazing selection– the best in the area for sure. They have very healthy looking plants and staff is knowledgeable and helpful. I like to just go and walk around and look at everything– they seriously have it all. The cons are that it is pricey– like usually by 5 dollars more than their competitors for a perenial. Another con that I’ve experienced is that a grass that I bought there didn’t make it and I bought some bulbs that didn’t come up (though we had a weird spring). I haven’t bought a whole ton there yet so it’s a bit odd that ²⁄₃ of the things I bought haven’t survived. My neighbor on the other hand has had great success and his yard is fillled with their shade perenials. They did look back on my purchases of the ornamental grass and give me a full refund a year later so they do take care of you if you aren’t 100% satisfied. Overall this place tops the rest in the area for selection.

I’ve been shopping at Planter’s Palette ever since I discovered their great selection of shade perennials. On my latest visit I found that they have rearranged to put shade perennials near sun perennials. There seemed to be fewer hostas, ferns, lungwort and other shade items in the new layout, and the hostas were fairly ordinary. That was disappointing. I did, however, find mature jumbo H. nigrescens ‘Elatior’ for instant landscaping impact.
They had a decent selection of trees and shrubs, as well as fruit plants like blueberries, and flowering vines. There were also planters, garden art and fountains. The veggie and herb selection was limited. It was probably too late in the season. Everything was well-​organized and clearly labeled with info on sun/​shade, water needs, whether the plants were native or not, etc.
Prices tended to be on the high side but the quality of plant stock was consistently excellent. Great service too. Staff were knowledgeable and helpful. After I checked out I pulled my car into a loading area while someone wheeled my large cart full of plants (it’s always a large cart full) and put them in my car. They offered plastic to protect the interior too. Very nice.

I needed a very specific tree and had called all over trying to find. I was thrilled when I called Planters Palette and they had the tree I wanted in my price range. Garden staff were friendly and knowledgable. I didn’t really explore because my rambunctious 3 yr old was with me, but I’d love to tke my mom back to wander. It’s charming, and you can tell they have everything a gardener can dream of (even tiny miniature conifers for fairy gardens). I love the gift shop and cute garden accessories everywhere you look. Can’t wait to go back. I hadn’t even heard of Winfield, IL before I drove out there… but worth the trip. Even helped me load the tree in the car.

The staff here are fantastic. If someone doesn’t know the answer to your question or what you are referring to, rest assured the walkie talkie comes out and more help is on the way. Buff men and women to help with the loading of mass quantities of mulch = always good.
They had a great selection of plants and bulbs and I even ran into the landscaping consultant who owed me a quote on some pavers for a driveway. This place seems to be where the landscapers go for inspiration. Save some money and head there solo.
Plant theme park complete.

Love this place! A little pricey but WORTH it! Looking forward to this season’s visit.

Two years in a row, for Mother’s Day, this place has been fantastic.
They do have a large area (which I have not completely canvased). They do stand behind their products and they do have knowledgable, but not pushy, staff. I like the arrangements/​displays to give people creative ideas, especially if you aren’t an expert gardener. While I may not know the ins and outs of all plants, I do know they had two beautiful ‘bleeding hearts’ that I wanted for my mom. They even let me put the purchase on her avid gardener points. It is not a hard place to find, and if you live in the suburbs, it really is not the ‘boonies.’… believe me, there are places which are much more difficult to find!

Well, a good thing we were not on a time frame when we visited. It took a long time to go up and down all those aisles while looking for just the right ground cover. It took a while, but SUCCESS.
I will be sure to come here for my plantings next spring. I just hope they will all fit in the car.
The selection was outstanding and I saw many things I had not seen in the mail order catalogues. No one tried to convince me that I wanted something that I didn’t. I found out that some local landscape companies place their orders here, works for me.

Sure, it’s nicely laid out, and more like a trip to the Botanic Gardens than a trip to stock your garden. But as an experienced gardener, I’ve been disappointed by the lack of unique plants here, especially after making the trek into the boonies. Even plants such as daylilies, roses, and hostas do not have the selection a true collector would expect or appreciate. Their prices are somewhat shocking, unless you manage to get something on sale. I’ll stick with mail order or growing from seed, thanks.

Absolutely the best place to get all of your gardening needs. The biggest downside is that it is seriously out in the «country». So if you are coming from anywhere but the western burbs, it may have to be a day trip. But the Planter’s Palette is 40 acres of gardening heaven and if you can’t find it there– it probably doesn’t exist.
Take a drive to the country and explore this amazing space. It is extremely well organized. Annuals are all alphabetized and are heavily stocked. Shade perennials are on one side and sun perennials are on the other. There are greenhouses with exotics and a gift shop to purchase all those accent pieces that make your garden more of an outside room. There are urns, fountains, birdhouses, topiary, sculptures, ironwork, pretty much anything that you might be looking for.
I love to wander around taking it all in and creating arrangements in my head. You then load up your cart, and when you are ready to check out– they scan your purchases, and then take the cart from you to the loading area while you pay. When you bring your car around– all of your purchases are loaded for you and you are quickly on your way.
They also have an avid gardeners club– where you get $ 25 off for every $ 750 that you spend (which isn’t hard to do, trust me, but if you have a smaller garden you can accumulate your points over time). They stand behind their products replacing perennials after one year if they fail to make it through the winter (good to know this year as the winter took it’s toll on my garden)
Not handy in the garden? No problem. They have a wide range of classes or if you just want to look like you know flowers– you can hire them to create arrangements for you or buy one of their many pre– potted inserts that just slip into your containers.
The staff is friendly and helpful. The stock plentiful and healthy. And for this gardening fanatic? Visiting the Planters Palette is like a relaxing day in the country. Now I could just find the time to plant all the things that I bought!