Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers

13/07/2025

Packed full of posies! With a new batch of flowers, Fresh from our fields. Also with sunflowers harvested just this morning! Heading to the 9-1

11/07/2025

Fat and fabulous!! Direct- fresh from our fields, no pit stops, Coming for you Saturday 8-12:30
9-1:00 see you there!

09/07/2025

Day 1 Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers floral intensive!! An AMAZING day! Really special to have such diversity among us!!

27/06/2025

Name your color palette tomorrow Saturday 8:00- 12:30. Sunday 9:00-1:30 . Bouquets and bundles too!!

Also all you dried flower fans now the time to snag your flowers for crafting!!
Happy STL pride ya’ll!!
We got the rainbows!! 🌈

26/06/2025

Now this is the Missouri I know and love - hot, humid, and just plain old nasty weather! Hope you all have a cooling place in mind for after you visit us at the this weekend! The zinnias are raging right in time for Pride, and they’re the perfect Pride colors this weekend!

We want to thank Acadia Healthcare for hosting their client Happy Hour event with us this week. It’s so much fun having people host their private events here on the farm, and everyone goes home with a beautiful bouquet! If you’re interested in hosting a private party here at the flower farm, please reach out to us!

In all seriousness, on these severe heat days we really try to have all our staff come in earlier and we send everyone home at noon for safety. In these kinds of temperatures, neither flowers nor people do well between 12-5pm!

We’re going to have a packed booth at both and  - some real beauties coming your way! See you at the market!

25/06/2025

21/06/2025

When people struggle to make a decision, I always tell them to “go with the first one that caught your eye! That’s the one for you!
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20/06/2025

Happy Juneteenth!

On this day we commemorate the enslaved people who did not know they were free until months after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. As we see the climate changing toward erasing our history, it’s imperative that we rise up and not allow that to happen! Our future generations need to know what came before them.

Black creativity is activism! Juneteenth is a reminder to celebrate Black freedom, Black culture, and Black resilience while acknowledging that the fight for true freedom continues to this day. This past weekend, Black Flora was a perfect example of helping young people explore their own limitless possibilities. These youth are being given opportunities to travel and to meet African American florists around the country so that they can see their own dreams are clearly within reach.

It takes a village people! It’s part of our mission to support raising up all of our youth. I have a soft spot for supporting young Black men and in order to build a more sustainable, human-friendly, earth-friendly community, this is the only way!

At Urban Buds we choose to do that through flowers. Flowers are our vehicle for uplifting our community, educating our youth, and providing a service for those in need of giving or receiving cheer.

We hope that on this Juneteenth, you’re able to find some space to realize your own vision and how you can contribute to the betterment of our communities. Thank you for purchasing our flowers and for supporting our mission!

Next week starts a new session of our Best Buds Flower Club! This subscription service gives you 6 weeks of flowers delivered straight from our fields to your door or available for pick- up off the farm. Sign up on our website!

Also Urban Buds t-shirts are back! Order online or visit us at the Tower Grove Farmers Market or Boulevard Farmers Market to purchase in person.
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12/06/2025

It’s not always about us!!! Today’s post is different from our norm. It’s about a very special project out of Chicago called Southside Blooms is a nonprofit organization that trains at-risk youth in the floral industry. Because of this program, these young people are now doing large-scale events and weddings throughout the Chicago area! Several months ago Southside Blooms’ founder Quilen approached me about doing a collaborative project. He had received a grant to travel with his group to do flower installations at sites of African American historical significance across the south and wanted to bring young people from St. Louis into the project too. We were planning on doing a flower installation at the Dred Scott statue at the newly renovated Old Courthouse. After months of trying to get permission from the federal government for this project, we were denied just a week before the event.

Though Dred Scott was denied his citizenship, we will not be denied. Of course, we have pivoted. The young people from Southside Blooms will still get to visit the Dred Scott memorial, but they will be wearing flowers instead of adorning the statue itself. And thanks to our friends at the Missouri Botanical Garden, we have pivoted our large-scale floral installation to the George Washington Carver statue in MOBOT’s Carver Garden.

Please join us in the Carver Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden at 11:00am on Saturday, June 14 to applaud these young people from Chicago and St. Louis for their hard work and artistry, and to celebrate the mission of Southside Blooms as we unveil the finished piece. This project is in collaboration with several local St. Louis florists: , .girl.in.bloom , , , and , and also supported by who are generously donating lunch to our hardworking group of young people and florists.

If you can’t join us for the reveal, don’t worry! The installation will remain up throughout the weekend until the garden closes at 5pm on Sunday, June 15.

08/06/2025

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30/05/2025

I‘ve never been able to write a post that just skims the surface. It’s fitting that these complex flowers are blooming alongside these complex times. I’ve been quiet on Instagram because it feels difficult to talk about the amazing flowers blooming when so many St. Louisans became homeless in an instant. It feels disingenuous to my city. Life is complex for so many people. Yes, flowers calm the soul. But if they can’t put a roof over your head, or help get basic needs met, I just don’t know how they fit. I mean, I made them fit no problem with 9/11 and then again with Covid. Flowers had a place, a role, a part to play! I’m feeling stuck, confused, and sad.

Flowers can’t fix the pit in my stomach caused by knowing this is the death of whole neighborhoods, and especially knowing African-American communities were hit hardest. Many have no resources, no insurance, and no chance at rebuilding.

Historically and in my experience, when massive damage happens in these communities, areas once rich in culture – with African-American legacies represented by multiple generations under one roof – are blighted by a gust of wind, fire or riots become even more vulnerable to criminal activity.

I learned this as a young child as I watched our neighborhood and community burn to the ground. Zeno of Zeno’s Cleaners, who alway had a treat for us as he dropped off my dad’s dry cleaning, the five and dime store, and the corner confectionery. We watched from the back seat of my dad’s convertible as he drove us aound town with our familiar spots smoldering in piles of ash. As our community and neighborhood burned to the ground,we were under curfew. This was Detroit in 1967, a city that has had many attempts at a renaissance that only recently feels like it’s actually taken hold. Show me this isn’t Detroit, show me this isn’t the 9th ward of Louisiana, show me this isn’t Altadena California. Please let’s put some truth behind being the SHOW-ME state. We have done a great job with the immediate needs.
Thank you for all the donations you have dropped here at the farm. I know the immediate needs have been great and as a community we have risen to the call. And I’m so grateful.

22/05/2025

South City donation site 4728 Tennessee Ave. 63111 Monday -Friday 8-5 Who knows there may be a floral surprise here waiting on You!!! A general list of things that we will be accepting and distributing between the Urban League. and the O’Fallon Park Y.