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The JVI Secret Gardens garden center at dusk, its gravel yard banked with hanging baskets and benches of flowering annuals
Garden center & water features · Nashville, TN

A garden center with a pond crew attached

We sell the plants and we do the work. Seasonal color and hardy shrubs at the center on Donelson Pike, and koi ponds, waterfalls and planting beds anywhere around Nashville.

227 Donelson Pike, Nashville.
Family owned.

Master Certified
Aquascape installers.

The center

JVI Secret Gardens is a family-owned garden center on Donelson Pike. We stock what actually grows in Middle Tennessee, and our own crew builds the koi ponds, waterfalls and planting beds that use it.

Master Certified Aquascape installers, open seven days a week

Two JVI Secret Gardens crew members setting out shrubs in a freshly dug bed beside a brick house

Our own crew, setting out a bed before anything goes in the ground

How we work

Come and stand next to one first

A pond is hard to picture from a drawing, and nobody buys the sound of one from a photograph. We keep water features running at the center so you can walk around them, hear them, and work out what size you actually want before anyone starts digging.

More about us
  • Family-owned, and you noticeThe same people answer the phone, walk your garden and turn up on build day. Nothing gets handed to a subcontractor you have never met.
  • See it before you commit to itWater features are hard to picture from a drawing. Ours are running at the center, so you can stand next to one and hear it before you decide.
  • Master Certified Aquascape installersThe pond work is done to the standard the certification asks for, which mostly shows up years later in water that stays clear and equipment that keeps running.
What we do

Six things we do, under one roof

All services

Seasonal color, hardy shrubs and trees, pottery, soil and tools, picked out with someone who gardens in this climate too.

Benches of summer annuals in full bloom at the garden center

Benches of summer annuals in full bloom at the garden center

Building it is the easy part. Keeping it clear is the rest.

A koi swimming through clear water past lily pads in an established backyard pond

A settled pond, running clear on its own filtration

After the build

A pond wants a proper reset once a year and a little attention through the season. We drain and clean, service the pump and filtration, sort out algae, and track down leaks, which are almost never where people assume they are.

You do not have to be an existing customer either. A good share of the ponds we look after each year were put in by somebody else.

Pond maintenance
Selected work

From a difficult site to ground that works

Get a quote

Come see us, or have us come to you