**Overview** Market Basket Garden Center operates as a family-owned nursery and landscape supply yard serving Metro East Illinois. The center covers both retail plant shoppers and landscape contractors, with a full roster of plants alongside a bulk materials yard. **What makes Market Basket Garden Center special?** The garden center occupies an unusual niche: a retail plant floor paired with a working landscape supply operation, with delivery tying the two sides together. - One of the area's few remaining suppliers of cemetery flowers — a specialty the business explicitly identifies as rare among local competitors. - The tree and shrub selection is described as "one of the most diverse in the area," complemented by tropical plants sourced directly from Florida, annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, and "Papa Joe's" branded vegetable starts and seeds. - The landscape yard carries bulk and bagged mulch in multiple varieties (hardwood, cedar, red, brown, black, compost, and Kiddie Kushion in bulk), plus topsoil, compost, gravel ("largest variety in the area"), natural stone, boulders, and wall-system pavers — all available for delivery. - Services extend beyond materials: tree planting and container planting are offered, and bulk delivery is available for next-day scheduling. **What fellow gardeners are saying** - Seasonal shoppers note a strong rotating selection of mums in many colors and sizes, pumpkins, Christmas items, rock, and trees — the center reads as a year-round destination, not just a spring nursery. - Landscape contractors call out the breadth of hardscape inventory — pavers, edging, boulders, wall stones, and decorative stone — as a reliable one-stop for project materials. - Customers ordering bulk materials (topsoil, compost, trap rock) highlight smooth delivery logistics, with orders confirmed and scheduled next-day.
Features
| Offers Trees: | Yes |
|---|---|
| Offers Perennials: | Yes |
| Offers Annuals: | Yes |
| Offers Houseplants: | Yes |
| Herbs & Vegetables Offered: | Yes |
| Offers Bulbs & Seeds: | Yes |
| Offers Bulk Material Pickup: | Yes |
| Offers Pots & Containers: | Yes |
| Offers Garden Decor & Yard Art: | Yes |
| Offers Water Features & Fountains: | Yes |
| Offers Tools & Supplies: | Yes |
