Family-owned Ted Lare Design Build is the Des Moines area's best landscaping company, and award-winning Ted Lare Garden Center is a must-see local experience for plant enthusiasts. Ted Lare's landscape designers, installers, and maintenance professionals are experts in helping you create the outdoor living space of your dreams, including front yard, entry, backyard patios, fire pits, and outdoor kitchens. Our garden center is minutes from the DSM metro in picturesque Cumming, Iowa. Enjoy a beverage from a local brewery as you tour the gift shop, greenhouses, plant nursery, and outdoor gardens with the area's best selection of rare and unique houseplants, flowers, shrubs, native plants, trees, fountains, pottery, and locally sourced art.