Garden Coaching & Landscaping Design
Steve’s Ace Home & Garden designers want to help you accomplish the vision you have for your property, by designing & creating outdoor living spaces that you can enjoy for years to come. In an effort to meet the needs of our clients and the demand for landscape design, we have partnered with a team of landscape designers.
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SARA CARPENTER
Owner & Landscape Designer
"We want to help you accomplish the vision you have for your property, by designing & creating outdoor living spaces that you can enjoy for years to come."

Rich schneiter
Landscape Designer
Rich has over 50 years of landscape design and installation. Starting Blue Spruce from seed at 6 years old and helping in his family’s garden, was all it took for Rich to take a passion to start and watch plants grow. Rich started out as a bank teller, Over 55 Club and Marketing Officer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Monticello. Then he pursued his life-long dream of building and becoming the owner of Sunset Greenhouses in Monticello, Farley and Maquoketa, managing an acre of greenhouses. He has a wealth of plant knowledge and design. Rich graduated from Monticello Community Schools and received his Greenhouse Growers’ certificate from Ohio State University. He also taught perennial and landscape design at Kirkwood Community College.
Rich and his wife Judy, (of 42 years) live in Monticello where they raised their 3 children. They enjoy six grandchildren.