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           <title>Engelhart farms</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Engelhart Farms is a third-generation Pacific-area farm operating since 1922 — one of the oldest direct-to-consumer farms in the region. The operation combines a working produce farm with a seasonal plant offering of hanging baskets, bedding plants, and select perennials.

**What makes Engelhart Farms special?**

A hundred-year continuous family farm with on-site growing — the same plot of land working through generations of the same family — gives the farm stand a distinct rhythm tied to a long agricultural lineage.

- Hanging baskets are a clear specialty during the growing season, with seasonal collections built around holidays like Mother&#039;s Day.
- A small but focused perennial offering includes named varieties like hardy hibiscus, butterfly bushes, and giant red cannas alongside zinnias and other bedding flowers.
- Fresh fruit, vegetables, and seasonal produce fill out the stand, with the plant inventory operating as a parallel offering through the growing months.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Gift shoppers return for the hanging-basket collections at holidays, with the Mother&#039;s Day window earning particular notice.</description>
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           <title>Everett&#039;s Greenhouse &amp; Gardens</title>
           <description>**Overview** Everett&#039;s Greenhouse &amp; Gardens is a seasonal greenhouse operation offering locally grown plants, vegetable starts, fruit trees, hanging baskets, and fresh produce. Reviewers consistently note the combination of quality, price, and warm customer service as reasons to make the trip. **What makes Everett&#039;s Greenhouse &amp; Gardens special?** - **Locally grown starts that perform.** Shoppers who&#039;ve compared find that vegetable plants from Everett&#039;s outgrow big-box alternatives — one reviewer singled out the difference directly. The greenhouse grows its own plants, including specialty starts like okra that are difficult to find elsewhere. - **Seasonal range beyond the basics.** The inventory shifts with the calendar: spring brings flowers, hanging baskets, veg starts, and fruit trees (including blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries); fall adds pumpkins, gourds, and fall decorating staples. Fresh produce — tomatoes, watermelons, cantaloupe — rounds out the season. - **Worth the drive, and priced to match.** Multiple reviewers call it a destination worth traveling for, praising value that beats bigger stores without sacrificing quality. Spring inventory sells out quickly — early visits pay off. - **A working-farm atmosphere.** Chickens, a white goose, and ducks roam the grounds, giving the place an unhurried, working-farm character that keeps customers coming back. **What fellow gardeners are saying** - Shoppers praise the selection as genuinely broad — vegetables, flowers, hanging baskets, fruit, and seasonal items under one roof. - The grow quality earns specific comparison to big-box retailers, with reviewers opting to pay a bit more for starts that reliably perform. - The animals roaming the grounds draw repeat mentions as a charming and memorable detail. - Visitors describe genuine surprise at the variety-and-price combination, and characterize the drive as worthwhile.</description>
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           <title>Fendler Nursery &amp; Garden Center</title>
           <description>St. Louis&#039; top-rated, family-owned garden center offering an extensive variety of trees, plants, herbs, perennials, and annuals, plus garden supplies, soil amendments, and landscaping services. Operating for 70 years since 1954.</description>
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           <title>Ferguson Valley Nursery</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Ferguson Valley Nursery operates as a dedicated tree farm under the Hoffmann Family of Companies. The nursery focuses squarely on trees — sourcing, selling, and planting them — rather than the broader garden center mix carried by many regional competitors.

**What makes Ferguson Valley Nursery special?**

- Specializes in trees as a primary product, with balled-and-burlap availability for buyers who want field-quality root systems rather than container stock.
- Offers on-site planting service at the time of purchase — customers can buy a tree and have it planted the same visit by knowledgeable staff.
- Functions as the Hoffmann Family&#039;s tree farm headquarters, giving it a production-side identity that distinguishes it from retail-only nurseries in the region.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Fick Supply Earth City</title>
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Fick Supply traces its roots to 1953, when its founder pioneered repurposing wood waste into mulch rather than burning or discarding it. Today the business carries what it describes as the largest selection of high-quality mulch, decorative gravel, topsoil, compost, and crushed rock in the region, serving both residential customers and commercial accounts.

**What makes Fick Supply special?**

A materials-only supplier with an unusually broad hardscape and organic inventory, Fick Supply stands out for the depth of its selection and the convenience of its ordering model.

- Mulch in four forms — Natural, Leaf, Single Ground, and Double Ground — alongside engineered and bioretention soils and playground surfacing for more specialized projects
- Bulk gravel spanning everyday utility rock through decorative premium stones: Meramec varieties, Iowa Rainbow, Northern Lake, Alabama Sunset, Chicago Buff, Midnight Slate, and more
- STA-certified organic compost (Grow Green Compost, sourced from aerobic decomposition of yard waste) alongside topsoil, garden mix, fill dirt, and a field and turf enhancer
- Online ordering available around the clock, with regional delivery across the St. Louis area
- Trusted by municipal accounts and high-profile commercial landscaping contractors

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Customers highlight prompt, same-day delivery turnaround — one reviewer ordered bulk gravel mid-morning and had it on-site before early afternoon
- Delivery crews are consistently described as friendly and professional, with multiple reviewers singling out the drivers
- The online ordering system earns praise for letting customers schedule delivery without a phone call
- Reviewers flag occasional questions about delivery pricing to certain areas — rates vary by area — worth confirming before ordering</description>
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           <title>Fick Supply Service</title>
           <description>**Overview** Fick Supply is a Wildwood-headquartered bulk landscape material supplier serving the St. Louis region with mulch, gravel, topsoil, compost, and crushed rock. The operation has been in business for more than 30 years and pairs a working materials yard with broad regional delivery coverage. **What makes Fick Supply special?** A full-spectrum bulk-only inventory paired with 24/7 online ordering — and a working yard that handles both pickup and delivery — sets the operation apart from bagged-product retail. - The mulch lineup is broad: cedar mulch, color-enhanced ground-recycled coarse mulch, fine-textured Coffee Fines Mulch, and standard bark blends are all in regular rotation. - The soil and compost side carries garden mix, topsoil, engineered soil for infiltration applications, and STA-certified Grow Green Compost produced from aerobic decomposition of yard waste. - The gravel and rock side runs from standard sand and crushed rock through decorative gravels including Alabama sunset, with playground surfacing rounding out the substrate inventory. **What fellow gardeners are saying** - Bulk shoppers describe the ordering experience as effortlessly organized — the online system delivers without the back-and-forth of phone-only operations. - Compost buyers single out the quality as a clear cut above competing yards in the region — the kind of differentiator that drives repeat orders across the year.</description>
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           <title>Flowers &amp; Weeds</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Flowers &amp; Weeds is a neighborhood plant shop, garden center, and florist on Cherokee Street in St. Louis. The shop pairs custom floral design with retail plant inventory and a seasonally rotating outdoor garden center.

**What makes Flowers &amp; Weeds special?**

A florist-plus-plant-shop hybrid built around seasonal local sourcing and custom design work gives the operation a distinctive shape compared with single-purpose flower shops or generic garden centers.

- The indoor shop carries houseplants, succulents, cacti, tropical plants, seeds, garden supplies, and pottery from local artists alongside fresh flowers by the stem and grab-and-go bouquets.
- The garden center rotates seasonally — organic veggie starts, herbs, annuals, perennials including natives, trees, and shrubs in spring; heat-loving annuals like zinnias, vinca, celosia, and angelonia through summer; pumpkins and fall annuals in autumn; Douglas fir, Fraser fir, Scotch pine, white pine, and balsam fir trees with wreaths and garlands through winter.
- Custom floral design is the signature service — seasonally thoughtful arrangements built from local growers&#039; blooms, with full-service wedding florals, à la carte florals, and a monthly flower subscription rounding out the offering.</description>
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           <title>Flyleaf Succulents</title>
           <description>A plant retailer specializing in succulents, tropical, carnivorous, and fruiting plants, operating monthly sales events in St. Louis.</description>
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           <title>FlytrapStore.com</title>
           <description>Buy Venus Fly Traps and other Carnivorous Plants at FlytrapStore.com</description>
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           <title>Fonseca&#039;s Farm and Greenhouses</title>
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Fonseca&#039;s Farm and Greenhouses is a St. Charles-area family farm that grows its retail inventory on-site and pairs the greenhouse operation with a farm-to-table produce stand. The shop covers annuals, perennials, tropical plants, garden decor, and a working produce side under one roof.

**What makes Fonseca&#039;s Farm and Greenhouses special?**

A grow-on-site model across multiple plant categories — backed by an active produce side and Talavera pottery accents — gives the farm a distinctive shape compared with stocked-retail garden centers.

- The perennial side is anchored by hardy mums grown on-site in two shades of every color, with sizes spanning 4-inch pots, 10-inch and 12-inch hanging baskets, and 16-inch XL containers.
- Annuals run wide — hundreds of flower baskets, 15 varieties of petunias, calibrachoa, and other bedding flowers grown from seed and tended through the season.
- A dedicated tropical-plant section carries monstera and Florida palm trees sourced through a Florida grower partnership, alongside Talavera pottery for finishing planted arrangements.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Repeat visitors call out the grow-on-site quality — plants arriving home noticeably healthier than big-box equivalents.
- The breadth of the perennial-and-tropical lineup earns notice from shoppers who appreciate finding everything for a planted arrangement on a single trip.</description>
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           <title>Foristell Farms &amp; Garden Center</title>
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Foristell Farms &amp; Garden Center is a small farm and garden-center operation in Foristell, Missouri, positioned as a low-key country-charm destination. The operation pairs on-site propagation with a working farm offering — produce, fresh eggs, a pumpkin patch, and seasonal Christmas trees.

**What makes Foristell Farms &amp; Garden Center special?**

A stay-small, know-every-customer operating philosophy — paired with a lifetime of nursery-and-pumpkin background brought into a retirement-era farm — gives the operation a distinctly personal character.

- Plants are propagated on-site rather than wholesaled in, with growing beds visible from the retail area.
- The annual lineup spans marigolds, petunias, impatiens, vinca, verbena, coleus, and sweet potato vine — a focused selection of seasonal bedding plants.
- The farm side adds a pumpkin patch in the fall, fresh produce and eggs through the growing season, and landscaping supplies for finishing garden projects.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- The operation is recent enough that customer-attributable review sentiment is thin — visitors will find a working farm rather than a polished retail floor.</description>
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           <title>Forrest Keeling Nursery</title>
           <description>Forrest Keeling Nursery specializes in native plants and is the largest producer of native plants in North America. With over 75 years of experience, they offer over 250 species of native trees and shrubs and more than 100 species of native perennials and grasses. They use their proprietary RPM (Root Production Method®) production process to grow superior plants.</description>
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           <title>Fred Drummond Nursery</title>
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Founded in 1968 and family-run since, Drummond Nursery has grown from a single small greenhouse into a destination plant nursery anchored by four greenhouses dedicated to cacti and succulents. Alongside its year-round specialty collection, the nursery carries seasonal annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and vegetable plants.

**What makes Drummond Nursery special?**

The nursery&#039;s center of gravity is rare and unusual cacti and succulents sourced on annual buying trips to Tucson and California — stock selected with collectors in mind, not just the average garden center shelf. That sourcing ethos, sustained for more than five decades, positions Drummond Nursery as both a retail destination and a wholesale supplier to local garden centers and the Missouri Botanical Garden gift shop.

- Four greenhouses stocked year-round with haworthias, agaves, aloes, desert roses, crown of thorns, and a rotating selection of unusual specimens
- Customized dish gardens available as a specialty service
- Seasonal inventory rounds out the range with annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and vegetable plants
- Regular vendor at Missouri Botanical Garden cactus and succulent shows

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Visitors consistently praise the breadth of the cactus and succulent collection — multiple greenhouses of specimens in all sizes and price points
- Shoppers note the nursery draws plant enthusiasts from across the region, with many making the 45-minute drive from the St. Louis metro specifically for the selection
- Reviewers highlight knowledgeable service and competitive pricing alongside the depth of the specialty collection
- Customers find both familiar varieties and genuinely unusual specimens — the kind of stock that appeals to collectors looking to add something new</description>
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           <title>Fred&#039;s Greenhouse &amp; Nursery</title>
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Fred&#039;s Greenhouse &amp; Nursery is a long-running family-run greenhouse in Sorento, Illinois, in operation for more than 25 years. The shop pairs a substantial annual and perennial offering with a working landscaping side, with reduced off-season hours running on appointment.

**What makes Fred&#039;s Greenhouse &amp; Nursery special?**

An unusually deep hanging-basket inventory — more than 2,000 baskets across flowering, fern, and foliage varieties — gives the greenhouse a clear retail anchor that draws drive-from-the-metro shoppers.

- Hanging baskets come in multiple container styles: 10-inch plastic, wire baskets, and moss baskets in three sizes — a variety unusual for greenhouses at this scale.
- The plant offering covers annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees alongside vegetable starts during the growing season.
- A landscaping side handles garden maintenance and lawn mowing, with the greenhouse and landscape operations running out of the same property.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Shoppers describe the basket and bedding-flower selection as consistently healthy and well-presented across visits.
- Returning customers single out the hydrangeas and broader perennial inventory for quality matching the basket lineup.</description>
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           <title>Frisella Nursery</title>
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Frisella Nursery is a 30-acre, family-operated destination nursery in Defiance with a greenhouse, outdoor growing areas, and retail spaces. Most of the perennials and trees sold here are grown on-site or at the company&#039;s farm in Marthasville.

**What makes Frisella Nursery special?**

- Best known for its tree and shrub selection — including unique specimen trees in large sizes, evergreens, and flowering varieties like dogwoods, redbuds, crabapples, maples, and oaks.
- Strong native-plant focus with staff specialists, an extensive hosta selection, and a perennial program almost entirely grown on the property.
- A greenhouse devoted to houseplants and pottery — common and rare varieties with regular new arrivals, plus a year-round succulent and cactus section.
- A long-running fall and holiday program — pumpkins and a Fall Festival in autumn, then thousands of holiday lights, trees, ornaments, and photo stations through Christmas — paired with an active workshop program and garden consultations.</description>
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           <title>Garden District STL</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Garden District STL is a curated boutique with two storefronts — South Grand and City Foundry — that pairs a small but rotating houseplant offering with home goods, gifts, and locally made products. The shops sit closer to a curated gallery than a conventional plant retailer.

**What makes Garden District STL special?**

A gift-shop framing built around plants — with free repotting on every plant purchase and a deliberate emphasis on local artisans — gives the shops a different shape from a stocked plant store.

- Houseplants and herbs arrive in 4-inch pots that pair with the shop&#039;s own pot inventory, with staff repotting purchases on the spot for no extra cost.
- The non-plant side runs deep: candles, teas, ceramics, jewelry, art prints, stickers, apparel, and STL-themed gift pieces fill out the curated mix.
- A seasonal-decor rotation runs through the calendar, with holiday ornaments and themed planters drawing repeat visits at gift-buying windows.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Visitors describe the experience as a destination shopping trip — a place to browse for unique gifts as much as houseplants.
- Repeat shoppers single out the ceramic and seasonal-decor selections as distinctive against more conventional plant or gift retailers.</description>
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           <title>Garden Heights Nursery</title>
           <description>Premier urban garden and retail center in St. Louis since 1996, offering plants, gardening supplies, and outdoor living needs for home gardeners and green industry professionals</description>
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           <title>Goeke Produce Co.</title>
           <description>A family owned and operated market. Our main focus is Fresh Produce and a Great selection of Spices.</description>
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           <title>Got Mulch?</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Got Mulch is a Kirkwood-based bulk landscape material supplier that operates on a delivery-only model — no customer pickup at a yard. The business launched in 2025 and serves the greater St. Louis metro across mulch, soil, compost, and gravel.

**What makes Got Mulch special?**

A streamlined delivery-only model without a public yard simplifies the buying process — a single online flow handles ordering, scheduling, and dropoff with no driving-to-the-yard logistics.

- The mulch lineup covers coarse chunks for pathways, finely shredded triple-ground, leaf mulch, and dyed brown and black blends for color-finished beds.
- The soil and compost side includes Topsoil Plus, a raised-bed mix, and premium compost for soil enrichment.
- The aggregate offering rounds out with clean 3/4-inch gravel, 1-inch minus, and 3-8-inch gabion stone — covering most residential hardscape sizing.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- The business is recent enough that customer-attributable review sentiment is thin — buyers will find a delivery-focused operation rather than a yard experience.</description>
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           <title>GR Robinson Seed &amp; Service</title>
           <description>G.R. Robinson Seed &amp; Service has been a trusted grass seed and fertilizer provider in the St. Louis area since 2000. As a wholesale distributor, they offer premium grass seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, and soil amendments for lawns, athletic fields, and golf courses, with personalized consultation for commercial and residential clients.</description>
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           <title>Green Acre Plants</title>
           <description>**Overview** Green Acre Plants is a small, family-run seasonal greenhouse that grows its own bedding plants for the home gardener. The operation has run continuously since at least 2001, offering a focused selection of locally grown transplants across two distinct selling windows each year. **What makes Green Acre Plants special?** A family greenhouse with a hyper-seasonal, grow-your-own identity sets this apart from year-round retail garden centers: - Grows its own plants on-site across a multi-room greenhouse facility — spring stock moves through a Big Room, Transplant Room, East Room, and Cacti Room - Spring season (mid-April through mid-May) covers annual flowers, a handful of labeled perennials, culinary herbs, and vegetable transplants, with notable depth in petunias (10+ varieties), geraniums, marigolds, and zinnias - A second selling season in July and August focuses exclusively on tomatoes — 15+ named varieties including heirloom and hybrid options — unusual for a small seasonal operation - Herbs span seven culinary varieties; the vegetable catalog is tomato-focused with five pepper varieties rounding out the selection</description>
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           <title>Green Gardens</title>
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Green Gardens is a long-running Truesdale-area greenhouse and garden center — roughly four decades in operation — that pairs a working greenhouse with bulk mulch delivery. The retail side leans toward annual and perennial inventory tucked behind a greenhouse not visible from the road.

**What makes Green Gardens special?**

A combined plant-and-mulch delivery operation gives the shop a different shape from a pure retail garden center — bedding plants and bulk material can land at a customer&#039;s site on the same day.

- The greenhouse carries stunning annuals and hanging flowers across the spring and summer window, with perennials available alongside.
- Bulk mulch delivery is a real second offering — same-day and next-day delivery are documented, with the driver placing material precisely where the customer needs it.
- The shop operates at a small scale with hands-on staff — a few employees handling both retail and delivery side rather than a sprawling chain layout.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Returning customers credit the delivery experience for both plants and mulch — the unloading is precise and the response time genuinely fast.
- Shoppers describe the greenhouse stock as quality-first, with annuals worth the trip even though the shop sits off the visible roadside.</description>
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           <title>Greenscape Gardens</title>
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Greenscape Gardens is a full-service garden center that grew out of a 1970s lawn-and-tree-care operation and transitioned into retail in 1994. The shop pairs a deep departmental plant offering with a conservation-and-education mission.

**What makes Greenscape Gardens special?**

A wide plant offering across perennials, Missouri natives, trees and shrubs, edibles, annuals and tropicals, and houseplants sits alongside an in-house container program and a mission-driven education arm.

- The Natives department is built around Missouri-native species selected to support pollinator populations, and the trees-and-shrubs selection extends to Japanese maples in multiple varieties.
- Annual and tropical baskets and containers are designed and planted in-house with distinctive colors and textures, and &quot;Grab-n-Go Porch Pots&quot; rotate seasonally from small tabletop arrangements to larger statement planters.
- A garden-goods aisle stocks organic potting soils, fertilizers, soil amendments, pest controls, bagged mulch and compost, and terra cotta, ceramic, and plastic pottery, backed by a plant guarantee covering true-to-name, healthy, disease-free stock.
- The shop runs &quot;Blooming Minds,&quot; an 8-week outdoor learning program built on horticultural-therapy and mindfulness principles, part of a broader mission of raising environmental awareness and access to gardening.</description>
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           <title>Gringo Jones Imports</title>
           <description>For over 30 years, Gringo Jones Imports has been a destination for unique and fun pieces for home and garden, offering a diverse selection of vibrant Mexican Talavera pottery, whimsical garden decor, and one-of-a-kind home accents.</description>
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           <title>Hackmann Lumber &amp; Home Center</title>
           <description>Locally-owned Hackmann Lumber and Home Centers provides personalized service and specialty products including lumber, decking materials, doors, windows, siding, grills, outdoor living products, and premium coolers. Expert staff with knowledge of products and building projects.</description>
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           <title>Hackmann Lumber &amp; Home Center</title>
           <description>Hackmann Lumber &amp; Home Centers is your local lumberyard in St. Charles &amp; Troy, Missouri. Visit us for your lumber, decking, siding, fencing &amp; home improvement products.</description>
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           <title>Haegele Nursery &amp; Garden Center</title>
           <description>Family-owned and operated local plant nursery serving the greater Saint Louis area since 1986, offering the largest selection of perennials, shrubs, trees, houseplants, tropical plants and other foliage, as well as landscape materials and design services.</description>
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           <title>Handyman True Value Hardware</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Handyman True Value Hardware is a locally and family-owned hardware store that has served the St. Louis area since 1967, with three locations across North St. Louis County and Oakville. The shop&#039;s lawn and garden department covers the full range of maintenance supplies — soils, fertilizers, pest and weed control, hand tools, containers, and hardscape materials — alongside the broader hardware inventory visitors expect.

**What makes Handyman True Value Hardware special?**

- **Install-it-yourself or have them do it.** The shop employs its own installation staff — not subcontractors — to install many of the products it sells, which means customers work with the same people who know the inventory.
- **Rent before you buy.** The rental program covers power tools, carpet cleaners, and party supplies, making it practical for one-time projects without the full purchase cost.
- **Broad brand selection in lawn and garden.** Scotts, Bonide, BioAdvanced, Ceramo, Corona, and Chapin are among the stocked brands, spanning fertilizers, pest control, ceramic planters, and hand tools.
- **Soils, amendments, and containers in depth.** The lawn and garden section carries potting soil, raised bed soil, peat moss, grass seed (32 SKUs), and one of the larger planter selections in a hardware setting — 167 SKUs including Ceramo&#039;s ceramic line.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Visitors note the shop delivers the kind of attentive, locally-owned experience that&#039;s harder to find at big-box stores.</description>
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           <title>Handyman True Value Hardware</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Handyman True Value Hardware is a locally and family-owned hardware store carrying a broad range of home improvement and lawn and garden supplies. The Lawn &amp; Garden department covers everything from soil amendments and fertilizers to hand tools, irrigation, seed starting, and garden décor — backed by curbside pickup and delivery options.

**What makes Handyman True Value Hardware special?**

A full hardware store with a garden section that goes deeper than the typical home-improvement aisle:

- Soil and amendments: potting soils, top soil, raised bed soil, peat moss, mulch and bark in multiple formulations
- Fertilizers and pest control: a wide fertilizer lineup across dry, liquid, soluble, and spike formats — plus insecticides, weed killers, and fungicides from brands including Scotts, Bonide, and BioAdvanced
- Tools and irrigation: hand tools (pruning shears, loppers, cultivators, long-handle shovels), garden hoses, drip irrigation, and lawn sprinklers — plus planters, trellises, tomato cages, and seed-starting kits for a complete grow-out setup</description>
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           <title>Hartke Nursery</title>
           <description>Service-oriented retail plant nursery offering quality plant material and products with landscape design services. Known for friendly service and knowledgeable staff addressing the gardening needs of St. Louis neighborhoods.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Hindley Nursery &amp; Stoneyard</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Hindley Nursery &amp; Stoneyard opened in 1994 after its founders grew frustrated with the lack of variety available for their own landscape business — so they built the source themselves. In 2004 the operation expanded to add a two-acre stoneyard, giving the business its dual identity as both a plant destination and a hardscape material supplier.

**What makes Hindley Nursery &amp; Stoneyard special?**

Few garden centers combine a working greenhouse with a full hardscape yard under one roof. The result is a destination that covers planting and hardscaping in a single trip:

- **Greenhouse-grown hanging baskets and specialty plants** — the greenhouse produces extra-large 14&quot; hanging baskets and specialty annuals and tropicals grown on site, rather than sourced from a wholesaler.
- **Stoneyard with notable breadth** — 35 varieties of decorative gravel, engineered retaining wall blocks, pavers, flagstone, and large boulders sourced from across the country, plus six bulk mulch and compost options.
- **Nursery stock with rarity** — the plant side stocks shrubs, perennials, large-caliber trees, and unique conifers, with a particular emphasis on uncommon varieties.
- **Full-service landscaping** — design and installation services are available, extending the business beyond retail into project work.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Hoffmann-Hillermann Nursery &amp; Florist</title>
           <description>Garden center, nursery and florist offering a wide selection of trees, shrubs, aquatic plants, native and non-native perennials, annuals, tropical plants, and floral services. Also operates an equipment center and provides landscape design and installation services.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Hostas on the Bluff</title>
           <description>**Overview** Hostas on the Bluff is a hillside hosta display garden and working farm a short drive from St. Louis, open as a seasonal retail nursery from May through September. The operation is family-run with origins in a handful of plants shared across generations, grown out into a specialist nursery with 500+ unique hosta varieties on-site. **What makes Hostas on the Bluff special?** A specialist depth that few regional nurseries match — paired with a walk-the-property display-garden experience — gives the visit a character closer to a botanical destination than a stocked retail floor. - The hosta inventory runs 243 current shop listings, sortable by attributes including Hosta of the Year (23), Slug Resistant (91), Sun Tolerant (88), Patented (55), Fragrant (3), and a leaf-color palette spanning blue, gold-chartreuse, green, white-center, white-margin, blue-center, purple, and silver. - The property pairs two greenhouses with a hillside display garden and 20,000+ potted plants ready for purchase — shoppers walk the grounds, and a back-deck overlook frames a view of St. Louis. - A smaller sun-perennial bench rounds out the offering with phlox, daylilies, and sedum across the spring-through-fall window. - Mail order ships bare-root to the lower 48 from April through September, with pickup and on-site sales running during the open season; the grounds also host garden club meetings, yoga classes, and weddings.</description>
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           <title>Joe&#039;s Market Basket (Godfrey)</title>
           <description>**Overview** Joe&#039;s Market Basket is a family-owned Godfrey garden center and landscape supply yard that pairs a retail plant floor with a working bulk-materials operation. The shop covers spring planting, hardscape projects, and seasonal flower runs from a single Humbert Road site. **What makes Joe&#039;s Market Basket special?** The combination of a full plant retail floor with a bulk landscape supply yard gives the operation a dual identity that most neighborhood garden centers don&#039;t carry: - The tree and shrub side is described as one of the most diverse selections in the area, alongside Papa Joe&#039;s branded vegetable plants, organic herb starts, flower and vegetable seeds, annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, and tropical plants sourced directly from Florida for Midwest humidity. - Cemetery flowers are a named specialty — the business identifies itself as one of the remaining few local suppliers — sitting alongside statuary, yard ornaments, and self-contained fountains for finished garden installs. - The bulk yard claims the largest gravel variety in the area, with multiple shredded mulches (hardwood, cedar, red, brown, black, compost, Kiddie Kushion), bagged Nature Scapes color-enhanced mulch, topsoil, natural stone, and engineered wall-system pavers from Romanstone, Keystone, and Versa-Lok — all sold in bagged, by-the-yard, or pickup-bed quantities. - Tree planting and container planting are offered as on-site services, with delivery available for mulch, rock, soil, pavers, and stone to home or jobsite.</description>
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           <title>Joe&#039;s Market Basket (Troy)</title>
           <description>**Overview** Joe&#039;s Market Basket is a multi-department grocery that runs a substantial garden center alongside its supermarket floor. The garden side stocks everything from bedding plants and perennials to bulk mulch, natural stone, and gravel, with delivery service available for landscape materials. **What makes Joe&#039;s Market Basket special?** The garden center stands out as a rare hybrid operation — full grocery and full landscape supplier under one roof. A few specific differentiators set it apart from standalone nurseries: - Tree and shrub selection described on the site as &quot;one of the most diverse in the area,&quot; complemented by a named Tree Planting service. - Tropical plants sourced direct from Florida, noted for their suitability to Midwest humidity conditions. - One of the remaining few local suppliers of cemetery flowers — a niche service category with limited regional availability. - Bulk and bagged landscape materials covering multiple mulch types, topsoil, potting mixes, natural stone, pavers, and what the site calls &quot;the largest variety of gravel in the area,&quot; all available for delivery.</description>
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           <title>Joe&#039;s Market Basket</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Joe&#039;s Market Basket is a multi-department grocery that runs a substantial garden center alongside its supermarket floor. The garden side stocks everything from bedding plants and perennials to bulk mulch, natural stone, and gravel, with delivery service available for landscape materials.

**What makes Joe&#039;s Market Basket special?**

The garden center stands out as a rare hybrid operation — full grocery and full landscape supplier under one roof. A few specific differentiators set it apart from standalone nurseries:

- Tree and shrub selection described on the site as &quot;one of the most diverse in the area,&quot; complemented by a named Tree Planting service.
- Tropical plants sourced direct from Florida, noted for their suitability to Midwest humidity conditions.
- One of the remaining few local suppliers of cemetery flowers — a niche service category with limited regional availability.
- Bulk and bagged landscape materials covering multiple mulch types, topsoil, potting mixes, natural stone, pavers, and what the site calls &quot;the largest variety of gravel in the area,&quot; all available for delivery.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Kalmer Landscape Supply</title>
           <description>Kalmer Landscape Supply, located in Highland, IL, is your local Belgard dealer. Our products include retaining walls, firepits, fireplaces, pavers, mulch, decorative gravel, topsoil, and so much more!</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Keeven Brothers Sod Farms</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Keeven Brothers Sod Farms is a family-owned Metro East sod grower that has been producing turfgrass since 1953. The operation grows its own sod on local farms and sells both retail to homeowners and wholesale to contractors, with pickup at an O&#039;Fallon office and delivery across the region.

**What makes Keeven Brothers Sod Farms special?**

A grower-direct sod operation with a tightly curated turfgrass lineup — three varieties selected through annual NTEP trial review and on-farm field testing — gives the supply a depth of variety knowledge rare among general landscape suppliers.

- Three turfgrass varieties anchor the offering: a Winning Colors Tall Fescue and Bluegrass blend for cool-season cover, Meyer Zoysia for cold-tolerant warm-season lawns and golf tees, and Tahoma 31 Bermudagrass — the variety installed at Busch Stadium and used on regional golf courses and sports fields.
- Sod ships in pickup-friendly pieces, palletized loads, and big rolls for contractors, with weekday delivery and a forklift on every truck that places pallets where the customer needs them.
- The business grows on its own farms and does not install sod itself, instead referring installation work to a network of sod installers — a focus that keeps the operation rooted in growing and supplying rather than spreading across trades.</description>
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           <title>Krystal’s Produce</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Krystal&#039;s Produce is an outdoor produce market tucked into an industrial drive in St. Charles. Fresh fruit and vegetables arrive daily, with a parallel seasonal plant offering that runs from spring bedding flowers through fall mums and winter greenery.

**What makes Krystal&#039;s Produce special?**

A produce-market identity with a genuine plant side — and a strong local-sourcing pattern across both — sets the market apart from a one-dimensional produce stand.

- The plant offering covers hanging baskets that draw annual returning customers, alongside flowers, herbs, succulents, and vegetable plant starts in season.
- Seasonal items run the full calendar — pumpkins, mums, straw bales, and corn stalks fill the fall window, with fresh pine rope arriving for the winter holidays.
- Local sourcing is the operating standard — produce comes from area farmers and Amish suppliers, with the shop carrying as much homegrown product as possible across the year.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Returning shoppers describe the hanging-basket trip as an annual tradition — a destination stop on the spring planting calendar.
- Visitors note that the location takes some finding tucked off an industrial road, but the produce-and-plant combination earns the navigation effort.</description>
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           <title>Kurtz Nursery &amp; Topsoil</title>
           <description>Kurtz Nursery and Topsoil is a purveyor of landscape supply materials in St. Louis, offering topsoil, mulch, compost, and turf grass delivery since 1925. They source materials from 6 locations around St. Louis and provide bulk delivery services.</description>
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           <title>Kurtz Turf Farm</title>
           <description>**Overview** Kurtz Turf Farm is a St. Charles County-area sod farm specializing in turf-type fescue and Kentucky bluegrass for residential and contractor projects. The operation pairs farm-direct sod sales with regional delivery and a full installation service. **What makes Kurtz Turf Farm special?** A single-product focus on premium sod — backed by farm-scale delivery and full-service installation — gives the operation a different shape than a multi-product garden center. - The sod product line centers on turf-type fescue (the local default for drought tolerance) and Kentucky bluegrass (for finer-bladed, richer-textured lawns), with blended options also available. - Pickup and delivery both run from the farm — from 60-square-yard pallets loaded with a forklift down to piece-by-piece quantities loaded directly into a pickup bed. - A full installation service handles grading, preparation, rolling, fertilization, initial watering, and cleanup, with free estimates available for residential and new-construction projects. **What fellow gardeners are saying** - Contractor customers credit the operation for short-notice ordering and mid-project replenishment — the kind of responsiveness that earns repeat work. - Homeowners describe both the delivery placement and the post-install advice as setting the experience apart from typical sod purchases.</description>
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           <title>La Bella Fiori</title>
           <description>La Bella Fiori is a garden center in Macoupin County, Illinois, operating since 2004, offering mums in the fall and a diverse collection of seeds, gifts, vegetable starts, annuals, perennials, trees, gift certificates, and house plants.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Lamiaa Botanicals</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Lamiaa Botanicals is a boutique indoor plant shop on South Grand in the Tower Grove South neighborhood of St. Louis. The shop grew out of pop-up appearances at Tower Grove Pride and local farmers markets before settling into a brick-and-mortar storefront.

**What makes Lamiaa Botanicals special?**

A single-operator boutique with hands-on plant care at every step — every plant passes through one person&#039;s hands — gives the shop a personal touch unusual at retail scale.

- The plant offering centers on tropical houseplants and succulents — named inventory includes Monstera, Maranta, Hoya, Adansonii, African Milk tree, and rattlesnake plant alongside a working succulent section.
- Pet-safe selections are organized intentionally, with staff walking customers through every animal-safe option in the store rather than leaving the filtering to the shopper.
- The shop runs an on-site repotting service and pairs the plant section with handmade pots, candles, and jewelry from local artisans — plus a small book section sharing the space.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Visitors describe the experience as warm and unhurried, with staff offering plant-care notes and even free cuttings of starter plants alongside purchases.
- Pet owners single out the cat-safe walkthrough as a defining service feature — finding pet-safe plants without guessing.
- Shoppers appreciate the layout&#039;s organization by light level, which makes matching a plant to a real home spot straightforward.</description>
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           <title>Market Basket Garden Center</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Market Basket Garden Center operates as a family-owned nursery and landscape supply yard serving Metro East Illinois. The center covers both retail plant shoppers and landscape contractors, with a full roster of plants alongside a bulk materials yard.

**What makes Market Basket Garden Center special?**

The garden center occupies an unusual niche: a retail plant floor paired with a working landscape supply operation, with delivery tying the two sides together.

- One of the area&#039;s few remaining suppliers of cemetery flowers — a specialty the business explicitly identifies as rare among local competitors.
- The tree and shrub selection is described as &quot;one of the most diverse in the area,&quot; complemented by tropical plants sourced directly from Florida, annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, and &quot;Papa Joe&#039;s&quot; branded vegetable starts and seeds.
- The landscape yard carries bulk and bagged mulch in multiple varieties (hardwood, cedar, red, brown, black, compost, and Kiddie Kushion in bulk), plus topsoil, compost, gravel (&quot;largest variety in the area&quot;), natural stone, boulders, and wall-system pavers — all available for delivery.
- Services extend beyond materials: tree planting and container planting are offered, and bulk delivery is available for next-day scheduling.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Seasonal shoppers note a strong rotating selection of mums in many colors and sizes, pumpkins, Christmas items, rock, and trees — the center reads as a year-round destination, not just a spring nursery.
- Landscape contractors call out the breadth of hardscape inventory — pavers, edging, boulders, wall stones, and decorative stone — as a reliable one-stop for project materials.
- Customers ordering bulk materials (topsoil, compost, trap rock) highlight smooth delivery logistics, with orders confirmed and scheduled next-day.</description>
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           <title>Maryville Feed &amp; Home</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Maryville Feed, Home, and Garden Center is a Maryville, Illinois family-owned operation that runs as a feed store, garden center, and home-goods shop in a single shared footprint. The shop pairs working pet and animal feed with a substantial plant offering and a curated home and garden gift mix.

**What makes Maryville Feed, Home, and Garden Center special?**

A full mix-of-everything identity — feed, plants, pottery, and gifts — keeps the shop on regulars&#039; weekly routes for tasks that would normally split across three stores.

- The plant offering spans annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, vegetable starts, hostas, succulents, and seasonal mums, with staff-made hanging baskets that earn return visits as planters and gift items.
- The home and garden side carries pottery, yard art, wind chimes (both metal and wood), bird feeders, holiday decor, and locally curated gift items.
- The feed side runs deep — Fromm and other quality dog, cat, bird, and horse food anchor the pet supply section, with bagged soil, fertilizers, pest treatment, and basic landscaping tools alongside.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Long-time shoppers describe the plant variety and quality as consistently strong year over year — the kind of inventory shoppers copy in their own home plantings.
- Community-minded regulars credit the shop for sponsoring local events and treating it as a small-business fixture rather than a transactional stop.
- Returning customers note the staff-made planter arrangements as a recurring delight — seasonal turnover keeps the displays worth checking.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Massey&#039;s produce</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Massey&#039;s Produce is a seasonal produce stand in Dardenne Prairie operating from early April through the end of October. The market pairs fresh fruit and vegetables with a steady seasonal plant offering across the spring, summer, and fall windows.

**What makes Massey&#039;s Produce special?**

A dedicated seasonal calendar — pulling specific produce and plant inventory through their natural windows rather than holding a flat year-round mix — gives the stand a destination-stop character at each turn of the season.

- The plant offering covers potted and hanging flowers across spring and summer, with mums and other fall plants arriving as the calendar shifts.
- Locally grown peaches, Amish tomatoes, and homegrown vegetables anchor the produce side, with the stand staying close to its agricultural roots.
- The seasonal items lineup runs the full calendar — sweet corn and watermelon in summer, pumpkins and gourds in fall, and Christmas trees as the year winds down.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Visitors describe the produce-and-plant combination as a destination stop worth repeating across the season — the inventory shifts feel intentional rather than incidental.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Maypop Coffee &amp; Garden Shop</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Maypop Coffee &amp; Garden Shop occupies a renovated historic house known as The Marshall House, operating as a hybrid coffee shop and garden retailer with an attached greenhouse. The shop takes its name from the native passionflower vine and frames its plant selection around biodiversity and thoughtful home landscapes.

**What makes Maypop Coffee &amp; Garden Shop special?**

The coffee-and-garden hybrid sets the tone — visitors browse plants with a cup in hand, and the greenhouse doubles as an evening event space for workshops and dinners.

- The houseplant offering leans tropical and pet-safe, with a curated rare-finds section and a DIY Terrarium Bar that pairs glass containers with succulents, foliage, and decorative accents.
- Outdoor plant inventory covers perennials, annuals, edibles, shrubs, and small trees, with a native-plant and pollinator emphasis rooted in the shop’s namesake passionflower; fall bulbs (tulip, narcissus, crocus, allium, amaryllis) and pottery round out the seasonal range.
- Services extend beyond retail: garden design for small spaces through full landscapes, custom seasonal porch pots, and houseplant repotting.
- The greenhouse hosts a regular events program — wreath-making classes, paint and sip nights, themed dinners, and an on-site farmers market — giving the shop a neighborhood-gathering character alongside the retail role.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>MBC Greenhouse</title>
           <description>**Overview**

MBC Greenhouse is a small family-run greenhouse in Dupo, Illinois, that opens for a tight spring window from April through Father&#039;s Day. The operation has been running since the 1990s — starting with sales off a flat trailer before growing into its current greenhouse footprint.

**What makes MBC Greenhouse special?**

A grow-on-site model with sharp value pricing — and a sell-out cadence that draws regulars early in the season — gives the operation a different shape from a stocked retail garden center.

- Petunias are a clear specialty, with Wave, Tidal Wave, double, and Scentsation varieties all in the regular rotation — bloom sizes routinely described as outsized compared with big-box alternatives.
- Hanging baskets, annual flowers, and seasonal bedding plants round out the offering, with value-priced bundles like multi-basket deals appearing as the season progresses.
- Vegetable starts cover the standard planting calendar — tomato plants, transplants in small pots, and other garden starts arrive ready for the early planting window.

**What fellow gardeners are saying**

- Regulars credit the petunia selection specifically — bloom size and variety set the inventory apart from common retail options.
- Long-time shoppers describe the operation as a community fixture, with multi-generational customers buying plants here every spring.
- Visitors recommend arriving early in April for the best selection — the operation routinely sells out as the spring window winds down.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Mike and Sarah’s Produce</title>
           <description>Mike and Sarah’s Produce is your trusted local source for the freshest farm-quality fruits, vegetables, flowers, raw honey, and seafood in the Collinsville, IL area. We proudly offer an extensive selection of seasonal and premium produce, hand-picked for flavor, quality, and freshness.

Our fruit selection includes strawberries, blueberries, peaches, oranges, watermelons, apples, bananas, pineapples, starfruit, dragon fruit, cherries, avocados, raspberries, mango, and more—perfect for snacking, baking, or healthy meal prep. We also carry a wide variety of fresh vegetables such as tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, eggplants, onions, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, zucchini, and yellow squash.

Looking to brighten up your home or garden? We offer beautiful annual flowers and hanging baskets, grown locally for vibrant color and lasting beauty.

For those who appreciate Michigan-made and locally sourced goods, we carry local raw honey along with homemade jams bursting with natural flavor.

Mike and Sarah’s Produce also provides a high-quality selection of fresh seafood, giving customers a convenient way to enjoy nutritious, ocean-sourced options right in their community.

If you&#039;re searching for fresh produce near me, local fruits and vegetables, seasonal flowers, or raw honey and seafood, Mike and Sarah’s Produce is your one-stop destination for freshness, value, and friendly hometown service.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Millstadt Young Plants</title>
           <description>**Overview**

Millstadt Gardens is a Metro East Illinois garden center along IL-158, set on the same Millstadt property as the wholesale young-plant operation that shares its address. The retail side carries a focused mix of flowering plants and seasonal color, with a strong holiday and seasonal-event rhythm.

**What makes Millstadt Gardens special?**

The shop pairs an everyday garden-center selection with a notable seasonal-color specialty — poinsettias and mums anchor the calendar, with an annual poinsettia open house drawing return visits.

- Stocks annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, herbs, and vegetable starts as the core plant offering, with seasonal flower variety as the recurring shopper draw.
- Seasonal specialties run deep on poinsettias — multiple colors and varieties — with a dedicated poinsettia open house after Thanksgiving each year; mums fill the fall rotation.
- Pricing skews well below typical retail on bulk seasonal blooms, with shoppers noting half-off-or-better prices on large mum quantities.</description>
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           <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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