We offer specialty garden services in Dallas, Texas. Flower Child Plants creates dynamic outdoor spaces by using adaptive and Texas native plants, edibles, hardy shrubs with complementary annual and perennial color.
The focus at Flower Child Plants is to offer a beautiful yet practical approach to gardening in North Texas. With our services, we work to inspire and enrich your life through horticulture.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
-Gertrude Jekyll
Cynthia Koogler, Lead horticulturalist & consultant
Cynthia is a degreed horticulturist who has worked with plants since 2006. Cynthia's experience ranges from retail, wholesale, to hands on gardening in North Texas. Cynthia's focus with Flower Child Plants is working directly with her clients for horticultural consultations, creating designs, overseeing installs, and ongoing specialty garden programs.
Growing up, I spent my time outdoors and in my mother's garden. My career began in 2006 when I applied for seasonal work at a retail garden center during the spring. My passion for gardening struck me in a way no interest had before, and though I was young, I knew horticulture was meant for me. I continued working at the nursery for 6 years and during college. I loved doing garden sales at the nursery, but also enjoyed spending time starting herbs by seeds, propagating house plants, and creating containers for our customers. I was a natural born entrepreneur and so I started Flower Child Plants in 2009 and did projects for family and friends during college. While in college I worked at Green Creek Nursery doing sales with independent garden centers and landscape designers. After earning my degree in Horticulture Business from Tarleton State University I moved to Dallas, Texas where I worked at North Haven Gardens as a Container Specialist and Garden Advisor in 2012. To further my career, I pursued a position as a Horticultural Supervisor at the Dallas Arboretum, where I maintained seasonal color gardens and over 80 containers. While I was at the Arboretum, I began to focus on Flower Child Plants again working in residential landscapes, offering horticultural consultations, and selling planted arrangements at a variety of art and farmers market around the metroplex. I left the Arboretum in 2014 to focus full time on Flower Child Plants.
After many changes in my personal life and enduring a global pandemic, I felt a yearning in my heart to start growing into another direction. In 2022 I began coursework at Horticultural Therapy Institute of Colorado State University to become a Horticultural Therapist. With this certificate I plan to improve and reinvent my services for Flower Child Plants in the coming years. While offering horticultural therapy to my residential clients- I aim to start working with community driven garden projects to support at risk youth, survivors of intimate partner violence, incarcerated, refugees, general mental health & those with developmental or physical disabilities. To learn more about my new project, please follow my page The Resilient Gardener on Instagram.
We focus on understanding and choosing the right plants, knowing how they will perform in your space, and how to properly care for them. Each garden is an extension of your style and personality and we work to ensure you'll love your outdoor space. Please review our following service categories.
If you need input or direction on your landscape, but prefer to do the work yourself, we offer verbal on-site consultations. Consultations are required for our estimation process. The focus of on-site consultations include design recommendations, guided cultural care of plants & troubleshooting issues in the landscape. At the end of your appointment you will receive a digital packet of recommendations for your garden.
Starts at $225
For ongoing garden upkeep, we offer a specialty garden program that includes grooming, proper pruning, deadheading, light weeding, soil stimulants and liquid & granular fertilizer treatments in discussed areas. This program can run monthly, or quarterly depending on the scope and needs of your project and budget.
We love edible gardens! We revive and maintain existing vegetable beds and introduce edibles in perennial and annual color gardens. This specialty service is perfect for those who desire home grown produce, but are short on time.
We make it easy for you- our service is from start to harvest. We amend the soil, plant and apply fertilizers and soil stimulants to increase your harvest. We check on our vegetable gardens weekly or more to keep them healthy and producing.
We use natural and OMRI certified products to care for our edible gardens.
We love to develop annual color plans for your beds that carry you through the seasons in North Texas. We design stand alone annual color gardens along with enhancing your perennials beds with more blooms.
You can create a rich garden environment on a small patio or balcony with beautiful containers. We especially like to promote the use of edibles in your containers, along with perennials mixed with seasonal appropriate annuals.
All seasonal color installs include soil amending, fertilization, and liquid soil treatments for success. Color can be changed 2-4 times per year based on your preference.
Flower Child Plants specializes on the smaller, more intimate garden plan & would love to revive and enhance your existing landscape. This service is custom tailored to meet your aesthetic needs.
For each of our projects, we properly amend your native soil to meet the needs of your desired plants. We further your success with a complimentary plant health care session, which includes: natural liquid and granular fertilizers, vitamins, soil and root stimulants.
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