One stop, two sides
Pond design and a plant nursery in the same family business. You can buy your koi food and your shade trees in the same trip.
About Us
A garden center that builds ponds. A pond company that grows things.
Nashville's only one-stop outdoor-living partner, built by Derek and a small, devoted crew who've spent twenty years figuring out what makes a yard worth coming home to.
The short version.
JVI Secret Gardens started as a corner-lot nursery in Donelson and grew, slowly, into something pretty rare for Nashville: a single shop where you can leave with a flat of perennials AND a full ecosystem koi pond on the calendar.
Derek earned Master Certified Aquascape Contractor status, one of only a few in the region, by spending years building, breaking, and rebuilding water features until the work was undeniable. The team's been featured on Volunteer Gardener (NPT) and Aquascape's Pond Squad, but most of the work is word-of-mouth, neighbor-to-neighbor, around Nashville, Brentwood, and Franklin.
The garden center stays family-run. The crew stays small on purpose. The work stays personal.
Why us
What makes us different.
Master Certified Aquascape Contractor
Less than 1% of pond builders earn this. Derek is one. It is the closest thing the industry has to a real credential.
Twenty years in Donelson
We have been on the same corner long enough to plant trees at customer houses and watch them grow up.
As seen on
Where you might have seen us.
Volunteer Gardener (NPT)
Aquascape Pond Squad
The crew
Meet the team.
Team photo coming soon.
Team photo coming soon.
In their own words
Why I Chose JVI Secret Gardens
Cindi, a longtime customer, on what brought her back to JVI.