about us

Plant Land is Northwest Montana’s leading Garden Center. Family owned and operated since 1986! We have eleven greenhouses, a one acre tree and shrub nursery plus a three-thousand square feet Gift Shop. You can find all the plants, supplies and tools you need to be a successful gardener in our store and our Garden Experts are always on hand to help with any questions. ? We offer garden classes for all levels, all year. We grow all our annuals, vegetables and perennials from seed or cuttings ourselves and offer custom container planting for commercial or private accounts. Whether your plans are big or small, our staff can help you design any garden project. Plant Land also sells professional greenhouse kits and supplies. ? OUR HISTORY In the middle of the 1980’s Bob Balding happily grew armloads of gladiolus every summer to give away to friends and sell to lucky people who admired them at the Farmer’s Market. In a small greenhouse at his house in Lakeside he nurtured the gladiolus along with an ever expanding garden of flowers and vegetables, a hobby he found rewarding and frankly, just plain fun. ? In 1986 Bob thought that hobby might be a good way to make a living and on some family land in Evergreen just below Kalispell underpass he opened Plant Land. The family, the plants, and the business grew and today the Balding family operates Plant Land, one of the Flathead Valley’s most successful and best known garden centers. ? “When we first opened we grew maybe 500 geraniums and 100 tomato plants, all one or two kinds,” remembers Balding. “Now we grow 10,000 or more ge