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Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers

Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers is located in the Ducthtown neigborhood of Saint Louis, MO; just 7 miles south of the Arch.
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We farm unique specialty cut flowers and select foods for the local market. Beauty, stewardship, and quality define us.

12/23/2024

I’m not a photographer, it’s a challenge, to express how beautiful these bulbs gardens are, and how much joy I get from building them. Just Knowing that they will add to the holiday spirit in someone’s home! Our online store will remain open until 8 am tomorrow for any last min. shopping you may have. We are extremely grateful for your orders. We thank you!

12/22/2024

Still looking for a unique gift? We all understand, you can send flowers anytime 24/7, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
We all know after the travels the flowers have gone through they will be lucky if they make it to New Year’s!
Do you know you can source locally grown flowers, freshly harvested right in your own STL community, in the cold of winter?!? With the cherry on top of having direct connection with the farmer who grew them!

Yes we are leaving the bulbs on why should just the top of the vase have all the action? When you can have the entire piece make your statement!
Care instructions included.Swipe to see the harvest to vase action! We think that’s pretty UNIQUE!!
We will be accepting orders until 8am Christmas Eve 12/24 delivery or pick up available. Link in profile. Great items still available.

12/21/2024

We value the flowers and your experience with them well beyond the point of your purchase. We care about how long they last in your home and the condition you receive them. Therefore, on days when it’s too cold, we will not expose them outdoors at . We don’t want to run the risk of freezing your flowers.

Our online store is open for your orders - for pick up or delivery. We will deliver your orders up through Christmas Eve. Our online store has bouquets, vase arrangements, tulip bundles, and bulb gardens!

And until Dec 31st you can receive 10% off our favorites - Frosty Buds and Best Buds Flower Club subscriptions!! For the flower lovers just like us!

What is unique about our Best Buds Flower club? We have opportunities to trial flowers before they are released to the public for various seed companies. This means you get to see the first new and improved introductions in the flower trade. You also get a discount on any ticketed events we hold throughout the year on the farm. Included in the cost is a “Buds Only” private cocktail hour and tour on the farm. This is really a fully loaded holiday gift that keeps on giving!

As a Best Buds you get the best, coolest flowers on the farm that may have limited quantities.

From Astilbe to Zinnias – we’re growing over 60 varieties this year. You also receive unique blooms not commonly seen, such as lupines, star of Bethlehem, amazing Delphinium, and the sweet peas like your grandmother used to grow! The bouquets evolve over the season - from hellebores, tulips, and fragrant daffodils in early spring, to dahlias, saliva, leucanthus, and heirloom mums in the fall.

We’d love you to join us in weeks of flower fun! Pictures are from my dear friends Rebecca & her partner Mark in New Jersey. Thanks to them for helping break the code and bring these to STL flower community. I weeded them today and they look fantastic! Will post a pic tomorrow we are so excited!

12/19/2024

We can’t think of a better secret Santa, hostess gift, or for your own table. Tulip bunches with accents of scented geranium, and eucalyptus. City grown with love! To order link in bio

12/18/2024

Silver and gold are great, but Christmas is for all the Crayola colors, right? Picked in the morning and on your table in the afternoon. We call it farm -direct or “farm to vase”. Order by 9 am for same day delivery. Link in bio. Happy holidays!

12/17/2024

If you live in St. Louis or surrounding area there is absolutely no reason you can’t have local STL grown flowers in the mix of your holiday celebrations. We have worked really hard to make it happen. And now they are here!! The daily tulip harvest has begun!! With our first variety appropriately called triumph! This is what I harvested today. Fragrant Stock, Clivedin beauty delphinium, fancy ornamental cabbages, scented geranium, roses, sunflowers, dianthus, gigantic snapdragons, Winterberry, eucalyptus, Formosa Lilly pods, and holiday greens, dusty miller, and a few river city mums.
Gift yourself, your office, your family, or our flowers make wonderful host gifts.
On our website we have other great unique, gift giving ideas check it out and get your order in! We look forward to fulfilling Your orders. Citygrownflowers.com

12/14/2024

We have some great holiday gifts up on our website with new items loaded just yesterday!!

Including what makes us most proud is our STL, sustainably raised, reasonably priced winter bouquets now available!!! Yes I know that was our goal to have holiday flowers. So why am I surprised, thrilled and have all the feels? Because this is also!”Farming” where sometimes the best laid plans, for whatever the reason, can go sideways in the blink of an eye. We are more than proud that we have accomplished our goal and can provide local flowers for our community and doing our small part in helping to curb the carbon imprint that these holidays create.

We have so many unique gifts, from tabletop bulb gardens, to flower club subscriptions the perfect gift for yourself or the flower lovers in your life. Go have a look and we look forward to fulfilling your orders. Shop local, shop sustainably,support our city farm all from the comfort of your home. We thank you!❤️ www.citygrownflowers.com

12/06/2024

Picked the first peck of organically grown, farmed raised winter flowers exactly as Sam would want. It was 14° outside, a hour drive out of STL one way, on a school night. Plenty of reasons not to show up!! It was SAM, the place was packed!! The STL farming family was out in full force joining her family & friends. As each person spoke the essence of Sam filled the room! There are all kinds of hero’s, then there are the “special forces” kind, The protectors, You know the ones that see a bullet coming and jump on top of you shielding your body, while taking the bullet Themselves!! Yes, She gave fiercely to all who crossed her path. It was amazing to be in the room with so much community love shared. The first winter harvest even with just a few stems ready to pick, I was proud our first flowers of winter was to her!! The mayor of came incognito in a sharp suit, I don’t think anybody would recognize him, but his hats are always a hard stop give away!!

12/04/2024

If you knew Sam owner of Sunflower Savannah, you knew a real farmer warrior! She was one of the original OG vendors of the , A champion of organic foods & preacher of slow food moment in STL. An active member of the known & Grown community.
You could always find her right in the thick -of -it, campaigning for farmers who were not as vocal as she. She loved her heritage breed animals and loved to travel with her life partner Billy in the off season. On those really hot summer market days she was always ready for me with a cold drink of her famous lemonade ( I really thought it was just some kind of mix, but it was special to her) and would wave me away as I tried to pay. Sam might have been short in stature, but believe me, she had an unwavering spirit in her beliefs. With both feet firmly planted, on the ground, ready to be as spicy as her salsa, for farmer justice. I can still hear her “Mimo you know it ain’t right!!” Sam loved her peeps coming out to the farm sharing a good pot luck, lively conversation and a cool dip in her spring fed pond.
I’ll miss seeing her buzzing around the market. She fought a good fight beating cancer, I don’t know how many times,far too times many to count.
We could all use a lesson from her play book of kindness and standing strong for what you believe. Her fight is over and we are going to celebrate her just as she would have wanted, with a good pot luck, lively conversation, and a nod to a farmer life well lived!!
December 5th, 6-10pm at the Lions Club in Beaufort, MO (2041 Lutheran Church Rd, Beaufort, MO 63013). The event is a potluck so please bring a dish and a fond memory of Sam to share. ❤️❤️
If you’re able, please also consider a donation to help cover medical expenses and lost income for the Wiseman family.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sams-health-and-family-needs

12/03/2024

I’m not feeling the jingle jangle of the holidays! There it’s out! Each time I visit her, my mom, my best friend, my warrior I see the dementia taking over her being physically and mentally! It’s a bitch to watch. I would give up everything to change this one thing. Watching her confusion, her worry, and her stress for a week made me sick, depressed and coming home with lots of despair. I can grow amazing beautiful flowers but none of that matters right now. This is the first time I’m not finding joy in the flowers popping up on the farm. I almost resent them. That they need my care and attention. I’m not tolerant, having to sell you on shopping local or buying small. So confused on why we need special days for these things.. when you know that already!! Aging is not graceful, kind or considerate of those of us affected by this dementia demon.
I will rally for our dear boy August. There a recipe of a concoction I saw on ig from putting the fragrance of Christmas in the air. I’m hoping that will jumpstart something. I love her insta give her a follow. I have a fun trip planned next week, Visiting four flower farms in three days! I hope I can share some of that journey with you. But if I’m quiet during this holiday, I hope you have grace for those of us who are in whatever kind of struggle. Glad I can put this here and take this self imposed struggle off my shoulders. We’re still here going amazing Flowers!! Frosty Buds starts at the end of December and will be amazing! Until then Probably taking more of a backseat to Instagram. Thanks for listening and your understanding. Much ❤️ Mimo

11/19/2024

Noticed that my schedule today was all about myself care and one meeting that was about future care of UB. Note to self: keep it going sister!!

11/14/2024

Hi flower fam!
Cannot believe that it’s November and we are still this warm. Pretty incredible.
We are so excited to be gearing up for our Thanksgiving and are certainly thankful for all of the orders coming our way! We’re loving our decorative pumpkin arrangements and from the orders it looks like you’re loving them too.
This weekend we can’t wait to see you at the first holiday market of the season. Colorful blooming bouquets will still abound at the market!
Our online store is currently open for your Thanksgiving floral needs. City grown, sustainably raised flowers - perfect to adorn your Thanksgiving table. We are truly thankful!
Can’t wait to see you Saturday - it feels like it’s been forever, but we just had one week break! Lolcom

11/13/2024

My Farmer Bailey Flower Tour adventure wouldn’t be complete without a big thank you to home-front hero Cooper. She’s Adam’s nanny turned friend-as-family. This past week she kept dear Adam full time & dear August halftime which allowed Matt to join me. This unexpected gift made the trip extra special. She has cared for Adam since he was 3 months old. The boys love her and so do we. 🫶🥾🕶️🐺🐺🐔🐓🪴🌻🌞🪁🏊🎼🎨🚙🚲🛶🗺️🏖️⛺️🛠️🧰

FYI Cooper’s full time job is as head flower farmer at Cherokee Street’s gem Flowers & Weeds, and where her growing skills delight all. The St Louis flower farming & florist community is small and flower buying population is not huge, and moral values of community over competition can be challenging because it is money from sales that’s keeps our farm open. This personal relationship helps my heart, and especially as many new growers/florists enter the StL marketplace. It is super sweet to experience how she gracefully bridges any awkwardness with integrity, kindness & responsibility. &weeds 👀💐👨‍🌾

Final thought, the automation of the facilities we visited was mightily impressive but I have to admit the $400k robot arm planting stock seedlings wasn’t all that joyful. The coldness of the astonishing cost-saving automation, was unsettling. The reality of the system stirred up the fight in me, pride grew for all the too-legit-to-quit, salt-of-the-earth farmers whose tenacity to do what they love keeps them in the field & running underdog businesses as families, couples, parents. Despite the odds the United States small-scale flower farm movement is GROWING. The farmers on this tour and the Urban Buds project itself proves that small growers using sustainable methods can bootstrap our way into relevance and cultivate a space in the massively massive global flower industry. I am more proud of my flower-farming peers than ever before AND more protective of our special farms. .duschack

11/08/2024

Thank you for all your orders!!Whether you’re picking up from the farm, having blooms delivered to your door, or preparing for Thanksgiving, your support means the world to us. All the local love for our 100% STL-grown flowers reminds us just how much heart and care our city has. We truly come together for our shared love of the beauty of flowers. We thank you!
Just a reminder—no market tomorrow, I”ll Be fryin’ bacon in my P.J’s!! We’ll see you at the holiday market next Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 9 AM–1 PM Enjoy your weekend and your flowers!
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10/30/2024

Yes it might seem crazy what I’m about to say, but old time heirloom River City is still the mum that can stop me dead walking down the row! They will make their debut this weekend at the final Or they will be in our mixed bouquets from our online store .com

10/25/2024

Launch Announcement: Frosty Buds – Starting November 1st, 2024, at 9 AM
Big news, flower fans! Our monster mums are in the house, looking lush and vibrant, and our ornamental cabbages are coloring up beautifully too. You’ll find these fall favorites in this week’s final Best Buds subscription bouquets, heading out today, and at this weekend’s markets. Come visit us at on Saturday from 8 AM–12:30 PM, or at The on Sunday from 9 AM–1 PM. There are only two more market weekends left to get your hands on some of STL’s freshest blooms!
After the market season wraps up, our online store will remain open for daily delivery orders, Monday through Friday, until the flower fields are finished for the season. No worries—you can still enjoy locally grown Urban Buds blooms delivered right to your door!
We’re beyond excited to announce the launch of our second season of Frosty Buds CSA Subscriptions, opening November 1st at 9 AM! Our 2025 Best Buds CSA Subscriptions will also be live our website. These subscriptions make fantastic gifts for the holidays, birthdays, or simply to say “congratulations” or “get well.” No extra calories and all the beauty—just shop conveniently from your computer and click to send farm-fresh flowers directly to your loved ones.
See you at the market or online!

10/22/2024

🌸 And with this bouquet that’s a wrap for the 2024 bridal season! 🌸
A huge thank you to all the beautiful brides who chose Urban Buds to be a part of your special day. It has been such a joy and honor to bring your floral visions to life. Locally grown flowers, straight from the heart of the city, made it all the more special.

We’re now taking bookings for 2025! Visit citygrownflowers.com (http://citygrownflowers.com/), click on Events, and submit a request to get started.

Thank you for an incredible 2024 season! We can’t wait to see what next year has in store. 💐

10/18/2024

These Glass greenhouses are like prehistoric dinosaurs in our industry and a very specialized craft that very few people still have the skills needed to work on them. We all love having this historic glass greenhouse in the heart of the city!! If there was a weekend that you thought about buying flowers this would be an excellent time! We will have an overstocked booth tomorrow 8-12:30. We would love for you to come & grab some flowers for yourself and a friend! lol see y’all soon & Thank you!!❤️

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4728 Tennessee Avenue
St. Louis, MO
63111

Website

http://www.citygrownflowers.com/

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Our story is one of land, community, culture, and love. Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers are proud farmer-florists supplying the highest quality flowers in the St. Louis area. We also handcraft and stage gorgeous floral arrangements for life's most important events.

Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers is located in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St, Louis, Missouri, on a historic farmstead with a rich flower history that dates to the 1870s. Together, we (Karen “Mimo” Davis and Miranda Duschack) have transformed an overgrown lot and property left fallow for years into a productive flower farm. Surrounded by a sea of concrete, we tend our oasis of green....and pink and yellow and orange and red. Our flowers not only bring color and vibrancy to our community, but also great joy to those that receive them.

We grow more than 70 different kinds of flowers on our farm - from ruffly ranunculus and daffodils in the spring to colorful kale and dinnerplate dahlias in the fall, we specialize in growing flowers that are "locally grown, not flown." Environmental sustainability is paramount, so our flowers are grown with the use of Integrated Pest Management techniques, cover crops, compost, minimal tillage, and drip irrigation rather than harmful chemicals. The flowers are grown in our field, in a high tunnel, and in a heated glass greenhouse. It's pretty impressive for two ladies in the middle of the city. Our flowers are lush, fragrant, unusual and beautiful; there's nothing quite like them anywhere in St. Louis.

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