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I’m Thuy (‘Twee’), St. Louis-based garden designer and plant educator for the St. Louis County Library. Rooted in friendship. Cultivating community. We offer St.

I also offer a diverse and meticulously nurtured selection of outdoor and indoor plants for sale. Our mission at Best Laid Plants is to share our passion for gardening and foster a deeper connection to nature. We are a woman-owned business, built by two close friends who used to run marathons together - who now put that same energy into gardening! Louis a selection of beautiful indoor and outdoor

plants, as well as providing personalized garden consultations. Our outdoor plant offerings are perennials (plants that return every year), and include many native Missouri plants that thrive in our local ecosystem. Our garden consultation services range from providing a garden design based on your preferences to teaching adults and children a variety of garden topics we love: propagating, plant division, composting, and overwintering annuals. More than simply selling plants, Best Laid Plants is committed to educating and empowering our customers, especially beginners, about the joys and responsibilities of plant care. Whether you're an outdoor enthusiast or an indoor plant lover, we invite you to join us in our love for all things green and to celebrate the beauty of growth! Consulting and design services: $45/hr
Plants: prices vary
Small installations: $45/hr per BLP worker

11/08/2026

Lantana growing wild in zone 9a! Aaah!!! Love this so much.

08/08/2026

It’s hard not to love a good before and after. I’ll let you guess which one’s which!

These pics don’t actually show the sweat this family put in to tackle this transformation. The design was mine, but it was THEIR effort and muscles that pulled out all the prior plantings and put in the majority of the new ones - including these three Blue Arrow juniper trees. 💪🏼 That’s no small feat, not to mention the 80+ other plantings that revitalized their front garden beds.

Collaborating with the homeowners during the design and installation process was rewarding, simply because of who they are as people. And then to see this project completed this past spring, in three months’ time, was exhilarating!

More pictures to come, especially as some of the spring plantings are in bloom!

28/07/2026

🪴 FREE PLANT to the 600th follower on Facebook! 🪴

I’m at 593 - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, guys!

If you’ve been around for a bit, you know that I love to give a free plant, indoor or outdoor, to the next hundredth follower! Know someone crazy about plants or could benefit from some garden design help? Tag them in the comments!

Pic: This is a 4” Philodendron Rio I grew from cuttings. This is not a philodendron you’ll find in big box stores, or even at many nurseries. The creamy green variegation is breathtaking! I don’t say that as a compliment to myself because I did not create the variegation. I think our Creator did! But what joy it brings me to be a co-creator, a co-cultivator of beauty.

12:10pm edit: SOLD on Instagram! $20 before tax. Buyer must be able to pick up in Affton, MO (about 2 miles from Ted Drewes on Chippewa). Goes to the first commenter who writes SOLD and can pick up! (CARE: It needs very bright, indirect light for variegation to stay. Stick it in a dark corner, and any new growth will revert to green… which is still a lovely, classic heartleaf philodendron! Water when the soil is mostly dry. Easy peasy!)

24/07/2026

This season I’m growing two edibles. Figs were a trade from a buyer last year, and my next-door neighbor grew several tomato varieties from seed and shared two with me. What joy to see my kids harvest our first (nearly) ripe tomato! It was sweet and delicious, and oh so satisfying. 💚🍅

While ornamentals (flowers, trees, shrubs) are my main gardening jam, I’m really enjoying seeing such a plentiful tomato harvest!

Want to learn how to grow stuff??

Teaching - with a heart to get to know you and your needs and wants - is at the heart of what I do. I’m a different kind of small biz owner and designer-landscaper because I want to teach homeowners how to fish, when it comes to their yards and garden beds. My seasonal team and I are happy to install the final garden design, but I’ve seen that there’s so much more satisfying fruit to the labor when the homeowners get their hands dirty and put stuff in their ground. Soon I’ll show you some gorgeous examples of homeowner-installed landscaping!

See my pinned post to fill out the online garden design form, as a first step to finally have that garden that’s been growing only in your brain. I’d love to help you bring it to life!

08/07/2026

Boxwoods and other evergreen shrubs, no doubt, have their place in the garden.

But so do gorgeous compact hydrangeas!!! Especially when they have a perfect shade environment to thrive (and when half the boxwoods are not living their best life!).

This is part of the backyard of the same home where I showed you my front yard design work (June 30 post) with the rock mulch and boulders!

I used three different varieties of compact hydrangeas that grow up to 3-4 tall and wide, and added 20+ Veronica hybrid ground cover plants, as the homeowners do not want to have to mulch this area every year. It should need mulch for a couple of years to suppress weeds, and that’s about it!

07/07/2026

This is not a best laid magnet.

03/07/2026

Sansevieria Sayuri and why this little houseplant (that’s now living its best life outside until the fall) delights me so!

02/07/2026

Here’s what I just Googled: “What is this yellow foamy stuff on my plants? It’s disgusting.”

🤢

So… you’re welcome! 😂 You don’t have to Google it if you see it in your garden. And better yet, it’s harmless!

Can you come up with a better name than “Dog vomit slime mold?” Gimme your best in the comments!

30/06/2026

This past spring, I got to design two projects that stretched me in the best way possible. This is the first one. I’ll share more pictures in the coming weeks, but here’s a little snapshot.

The family tore everything out and I re-designed the front yard garden beds with a mix of evergreen trees and shrubs and low-maintenance perennials of different colors and textures, and a deciduous tree - a Red Bud Merlot.

It was a dream come true for me to design and source the plants for this project. Kudos to the family, who installed the majority of the front bed plants. 🙌

Perennials are starting to bloom, and this month, we will see splashes of pink and purples! 🤗 💚 As my mom-in-law Barb says often, “I’m psyched!”

28/06/2026

How incredible to be able to break off a leaf from my aloe vera and soothe my daughter’s bug bite tonight. My kids were so interested in the process and to see the medicine inside the leaf. A few minutes later, my non-itchy daughter said, “Mommy, it worked!”

It was pure joy to see her reaction to how a plant could make her better. Plant therapy has lots of different facets, doesn’t it? 💚🪴

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