River Street Flowerland

✨🍂Some weekend sales at River Street Flowerland beginning today! Buy-One-Get-One on 8” sunflowers (limited quantity), 8” zinnias, 6” ornamental peppers, 6” celosia & 6” rudbeckia pots. Stop in now for the best selection! We’re open 8am to 5pm today and tomorrow, and 8am to 4pm Saturday. We’ll be closed Monday, Labor Day, September 2nd. Thank you!🍂✨

☀️💦Reduced hours at River Street Flowerland today, 8/27! Open 8am to 4pm. If you come in today be sure to bring your water bottles & stay hydrated! Thanks to our great growers, the plants are holding up pretty well & I had to really search for something a little crispy- but those burnt leaves are us without water! Take care of yourselves today💕

✨🎃Please don’t be scared, we’re just spooktacularly excited for fall!🎃✨ I was just reading that most people don’t decorate for Halloween until mid September, but these new Talavera-esque jack-o-lanterns are the perfect fall start, right? From floral designs, to pumpkins covered in monarch butterflies & autumn leaves- I’ve already got mine picked out but am refraining from putting it on the porch until my garden has the right rudbeckias & black fountain grass to compliment. Stop in tomorrow (open 8am to 4pm) to check out River Street Flowerland’s fall colors & decor that’s sure to pumpkin-spice things up! 🎃🧟‍♂️✨👻

Pottery on sale at River Street Flowerland!!🪴 Now take 20% off the original price of most pottery- excludes fall decor & plastic pots. We have a nice selection left; some great planters for dorms, new apartments and/or windowsills! Plus there’s even a good handful of large planters left for your porch this fall/next year or even an over grown plant indoors! If you have something you need to repot or find a plant here don’t forget about our complimentary potting bench- we’re happy to help! We’re open weekdays 8am to 6pm and Saturdays 8am to 4pm. We can’t wait to see you soon🌿✨🪴

Can we ever stop gardening? No!🌺🌿✨ Perennials, Trees & Shrubs are now all on sale! Beginning today, 8/16/24, take 20% off the original price of any of these beauties!! Really there’s too much to highlight, but I wanted to share some of the bountiful blooms you can see right now at River Street Flowerland. Globe thistle is one of my personal favorites because somehow all the critters in my yard have learned to leave it alone (hopefully I didn’t just jinx that🤞). There’s also some adorable dianthus, and some native evening primrose. These massive perennial hibiscus are sure to make a statement- my favorite colors right now are ‘Summer in Paradise’ and ‘Summer Spice Brulee’. ‘Honeysong Purple’ Stokes Aster & Ironweed ‘Southern Cross’ are pollinator favorites- but I didn’t mean to skip the handful of anemone flowers coming into bloom, great for bouquets even into the fall! Out in trees & shrubs we have some sweet Rose of Sharon, another pollinator favorite Bluebeard, and my personal favorite hydrangea ‘Oakleaf’ that’s really come into its mature color. For some more great color check out Sumac ‘Tiger’s Eye’ that turns a fiery orange in fall! Some great evergreen varieties still available are Japanese pine ‘Golden Ghost’ and this fantastically fringey hybrid pine ‘Weithorst’ (already producing pinecones!). For pals of pollinators also check out the profusely blooming Seven-Son Flowering shrub that we have in a few varieties: ‘Temple of Bloom’ & ‘Tianshan’.
In short: there’s so many flowers still at the garden center, and now they’re on sale! If you have any holes in your garden or just wanted to start another it’s a great time to do so. We can’t wait to grow more with you!

Annual Rudbeckia are now Buy-One-Get-One at River Street Flowerland!🌼🌿 these 6” pots of brightly colored annual flowers make for the perfect transition to fall (I know, it feels too early but sometimes our gardens need a little fluffing!). While they are annuals, these varieties often reseed themselves so we can cross our finger for more flowers next year🤞 Rudbeckia are great for pollinators & even rather cold hardy, so you can count on color until it gets chilly! Plus, fun fact, Western Michigan University colors were inspired by the brown-eyed Susan’s endemic to southwest michigan, so adding the classic brown & yellow to your yard is a like a little tribute to our local college!

You’ve all been anxiously awaiting when perennials go on sale- it’s begun! NOW: 4” POTS OF PERENNIALS ARE ON SALE! We’ve included photos of some of our favorites currently in bloom: rudbeckia ‘Toto’s Gold’, Platycodon ‘Austra Blue’, Echinacea purpea, Yerba ‘Firefly Sunshine’, Tickseed ‘Big Bang Star Cluster’, Buddleia ‘Grand Cascade’ (plus lots of other butterfly bush!), and Cardinal Flower ‘Starship Rose’🌸✨🌿🌻 stop by yet this summer to see what else you can get at a deal- after all, who needs a lawn when you can just keep growing your garden?😅 🌱

It’s the last week to redeem RSF Bonus Bucks earned during Spring 2024! We’ve still got a great selection of annuals (already on sale too!), freshly blooming perennials, trees, shrubs & even some new garden decor! Hours change for August, weekdays 8am to 6pm and Saturdays 8am to 4pm (starting this Saturday!) Plan a trip to the garden center with your friends & get a little dirty😘🪴🌺🌳 We can’t wait to see you!

Get tickets for Leila Arboretum Society’s 31st Annual Garden Tour in Battle Creek, Michigan, right here at River Street Flowerland! The tours are tomorrow, Saturday July 20, and Sunday, July 21. It’ll consist of a tour of 7 local gardens in Battle Creek! If you get your ticket today it’s just $10, or $15 the day-of. The weather this weekend looks perfect for a garden stroll, but as always: bring a water bottle & stay hydrated!🌿🌸🌻🌺🐸

✨🪴BOGO House Plants at River Street Flowerland🪴✨ we’ve got a great selection of house plants available at the garden center & for the rest of the month you can buy one get one free! This applies to all house plants in-store, excluding cacti & succulents. We’ll be restocking each morning, so be sure to check out what we have & expand your indoor jungle!

✨🇺🇸Happy Fourth of July!🇺🇸✨ River Street Flowerland is closed today for the holiday, but will reopen Friday & Saturday for reduced hours, 8am to 4pm. This weekend hydrangeas are 20% off, so if you missed our last sale be sure to stop in & see what we have left! Featured in the photos are hydrangea ‘Annabelle’ (smooth hydrangea), hydrangea ‘The Original’ from the Endless Summer collection, and hydrangea ‘Cherry-Go-Round’, making for a nice red, white & blue bouquet❤️🤍💙

❤️🤍💙This week at River Street Flowerland we’ll be open regular hours (8am to 6pm) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, closed on Thursday July 4th & open Friday and Saturday from 8am to 4pm💙🤍❤️ New July hours will begin next week, open 8am to 6pm weekdays, and 8am to 5pm on Saturday. Sundays we’re always closed to get a little break & tend to our own gardens! Thank you so much for a wonderful spring, we’re looking forward to a fantastic summer😊❤️✨🌸

So many wonderful perennials in bloom right now at River Street Flowerland! Come check out new varieties of coneflowers (a pollinator favorite & normally deer least favorite🤞🐝), some of the most fragrant lily varieties, striking delphinium & bountiful blue lavender plants. We grow all summer long (really all year) at River Street Flowerland so trust we can bring you fresh flowers all the time! Visit us Monday thru Saturdays, 8am to 6pm. We can’t wait to see you soon!

It’s been an especially hot week this week, and the weekend is only supposed to get sweatier!☀️💦 We’ve made it 4 days with our regular hours but Friday June 21st & Saturday June 22nd we’ll be closing at 5pm to give our team an extra hour out of the heat. Thank you so much to everyone who has already visited this week & reminder to anyone coming this weekend to bring their water bottles!! After all, hydration is key for us & our plants🌻🌿🌸☀️

It’s that time of year again! Beginning tomorrow, June 15th, through August 3rd, 2024 you can start redeeming Bonus Bucks earned this past May at River Street Flowerland!🌸🌿✨ good for up to half-off your pre tax total; this means that if your total is $20, you can redeem 10 Bonus Bucks for a new total of $10 + tax. Not valid on deliveries, gift card purchases or special orders. We have all sorts of perennials coming into bloom still, a great selection of annual flowers, even some veggies, plus our ever-budding tree section (hydrangeas look amazing right now!). It’s the perfect time to get something you’ve been eyeing this spring, with discounts on most annuals already & now these Bonus Bucks savings— I know I say this a lot but it’s always a great time to visit the garden center😊🌺🪴✨ thank you all for such a wonderful spring & we look forward to continuing to grow with you this summer!

It feels more like spring the last week than it did for most of May! We hope you’ve been having fun in the garden & wanted to share there’s still plenty to see at River Street Flowerland🌸🌿✨ most annuals are now on sale, so it’s the perfect time to fill any holes you might have, or just excuse planting even more bright colors! The sale excludes herbs, house plants & succulents, but includes hanging baskets, tropical plants & flowering annuals. Get in while it’s still cool & enjoy the rest of the week outside! We can’t wait to see more of our garden friends this week😊🌱🌺

the many colors of hydrangeas at River Street Flowerland

Good morning! Special Hours for the holiday today, River Street Flowerland will be open at 9am and closing at 2pm. We hope everyone has had a lovely weekend & enjoys the holiday, we’re certainly grateful it’s been a bit cooler😅❤️✨🇺🇸

Looking for an excuse to visit the garden center? This weekend pottery is 20% off at River Street Flowerland! We’ve got all sorts of large statement planters, tiered sizes great for a display throughout your yard or porch & petite pots to jazz up just about any plant. There’s still plenty of plants here too! Maybe the right pot will inspire a new arrangement? We hope to see some of you soon, and enjoy this gorgeous gardening weather!🪴❤️☀️

💫☄️🪐Have you heard of ‘hortofuturism’? Better Home & Gardens talks about this trend in gardening towards things sci-fi, brightly colored & a little alien, thanks to newer home owners’ affinity for the genre. Today I thought we’d look at some of River St Flowerland’s coolest neon green/chartreuse foliage & later on we’ll share more ‘neon’ plants & alien textures. Hope you all enjoy & have a wonderful weekend in the garden- this weather is perfect for it!!💫☄️🪐

We let our garden inspiration lapse for a week but we’re back with a fresh theme: Dr. Seuss!🌿✨🌸 walking around the greenhouse lately there’s been an abundance of funky flowers that would fit any Seuss garden; Cat in the Hat, the Whoville families & even some that are the Lorax’s favorite color: Truffula Pink! The first plant really kicked this off with a name like that- ‘Truffula Pink’ is a Proven Winner variety of gomphrena, an annual fuzzy flower that blooms profusely in full sun! From there we’ve included ‘Kangaroo Paws’ another awesome, fuzzy, full sun annual that the last few years has bloomed into the fall for us! Keeping with the fantastic fuzzy textures we also have celosia & mulla mulla plants that even dry really cool (perfect for the late summer/early fall craft!). You can even make your own Seuss scene by potting up a twisty bonsai & adorning it with a Thing 1 or Thing 2😅 from there we moved into our perennial section’s fun little Lychnis (these especially remind me of Horton Hears a Who) & one of my personal favorite plants ‘Red Feathers’ echium! ‘Red Feathers’ is usually straight upright, but many of our plants have bloomed so heavily this year they’re getting these great wonky shapes! What do you think? The colors of lupine surprise us every year too & I just love how the tightly closed buds look. Finally we’re out in trees where I’ll ask you to ignore the Narnia-esque statue & look at this amazing Blue Altas Weeping Cedar! I could’ve sworn the variety had ‘serpentine’ in the name because the trunk is so magnificently curled back & forth. The other tree we’ve included this morning is a Purple Fountain Beech for its lovely draping, purple foliage- but for a more colorful option we even have tricolor beech trees (pink, burgundy & cream on the same leaf!).
Thank you all for a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend, it was our busiest yet! Our ongoing love of plants is fueled by our customers & their interests, so it means so much to have a community just as excited to grow as we are. We just can’t thank all our plant pals enough💕🌿🌸✨

Water plants are now available at River Street Flowerland!🪷 Water lilies, moneywort, pitcher plants, rain lilies, water iris, water celery & floating arrangements is just a little preview of what’s available! Don’t forget Monther’s Day is this weekend, (Sunday May 12). If your mom has River Street Flowerland on her list make sure to get in today or tomorrow (we’re closed on Sundays!)

What an evening/night! Thank you all for your thoughts, well wishes & messages of concern yesterday and this morning. It’s so incredibly touching to have a community that cares. We are lucky that River Street Flowerland was not hit & this morning’s clean up just meant a little extra squeegeeing💦 we’re certainly grateful to see the sun☀️ our hearts & thoughts are with our neighbors in Portage & throughout SW Michigan that were affected by yesterday’s tornado. Let’s all do what we can to support them these following days & weeks❤️

🕷️🕸️🖤✨Goth Garden Inspiration pt.2✨🖤🕸️🕷️ we had so much fun with the last round & we found so many more moody & mystical plants that it could be a series! Today we went with a little more reddish/black color scheme, inspired by the garden dragon & Japanese maple in the first photo. We’ve got some really awesome dark-leafed trees like smoke bush, barberry & and new hydrangea variety called ‘Eclipse’ (see what it looks like in bloom at the bottom of photo). In annuals we have psuedoranthemum (my personal favorite dramatic foliage), Mystic dahlias with incredible dark, feathery foliage, and ‘Royal Hawaiian’ colocasia. Colocasias can grow indoors or out! Inside they’d prefer a bright; indirect spot, but outdoors do better in relatively protected, shadier spaces. We also have ‘Redemption’ colocasia, in both 12” pots and 5”! I included some houseplants I thought fit the goth vibe too: Alocasia cuprea ‘Red Secret’ and ‘Raven’ ZZ plant. Let us know what you think of these & keep your eyes peeled for another installation of goth garden inspiration again soon! 🕷️❤️🕸️✨🖤

Early spring flowers will always have a special place in my heart for the way they remind us we can grow again! Plus rhododendrons are a pollinator favorite, which is always something we could use more of! Did you know azaleas have been reclassified as rhododendrons? It’s kind of like the square/rectangle relationship, all azaleas are rhododendrons but rhododendrons are not all azaleas. They’re main difference is that most azaleas’ leaves will turn bright red in the fall before dropping, where as rhododendrons stay evergreen. Also azalea flowers are a little smaller, and often fragrant. All that being said, they both make for a great flowering shrub in part sun or shady areas of the garden. Pictures are from this morning with fresh rain🌧️🌼🌦️🌸😊