Sugar Creek Gardens

Excuse my language, but this place is THE SHIT! They have a great selection, a friendly and knowledgeable staff, and if you happen to stop by on a really busy day and the parking lot is full, you just park down the street in an overflow lot– they will give you a free 6-​pack (of flowers, not beer) for the inconvenience!
I love flowers. I love planting flowers, smelling flowers, buying flower arrangements– nothing makes me quite as happy as fresh cut flowers. Sugar Creek Gardens has a great selection of my favs: peonies, gardenias, and hydrangea plants. They not only have different sizes of each of those plants, but they also carry different maturity levels; you can buy a plant that has not blossomed yet (if you get there early enough in the season), or you can buy a flowering plant and transplant it into your own personal garden. Either way, you’re going to get a superb product.
Sure, their prices aren’t as low as some of the other larger, chain stores in the area. In my opinion, I’d rather spend a little extra and know that my money is staying local and helping to boost our local economy. It’s businesses like this that make the country «work»… I’ll spend the couple of extra bucks to ensure that they will be in business for a long, long time.

Oh my gosh this place is like my own personal heaven. As long as I am on my allergy meds.
Ahem.
I really dig on the beautiful flowers they have for sale here. The staff seems fairly knowledgeable and helpful. I haven’t actually made a purchase yet but as soon as I have some area to plant stuff for my own little garden, I will be making many return trips. The prices aren’t as good as places like Home Depot for some of the plants, but I’d really love to support a local business like this. There are tons of cute flower/​garden shops in Kirkwood, for sure, but this one really hit home with me! I can’t wait to go back!

Garden stores and nurseries are very dangerous places for me. I LOVE gardening and have a habit of spending waaaay too much money on flowers and plants every year. Sugar Creek Gardens is one of my Danger Zones.
I still can’t believe their vast selection of perennials! They’ve got everything from typical hostas and daylilies to astilbe and rudbeckia to bleeding hearts and shasta daisies ad infinitum. Already this is dangerous for me. There are so many varieties of texture and color and each of these plants has its own personality – maybe it’s fussy and needs to be coddled, maybe it’s rough and tumble, built for neglect and drought-​tolerant… There’s something for every gardener here. I love their «Grow Native» section of plants, especially since I’m new to the area and not exactly sure what «works» in this climate (which, believe it or not, IS different from Chicago’s). And, of course, I love the annuals – bright, cheery flowers exploding in color and variety. Sugar Creek even carries shrubs and grasses AND vegetables and herbs. The helpful staff always appears a little surprised when they ask if everything on the cart is mine. Yep. It’s mine, alright. I told you this is a dangerous place.
I can’t help but feel that it’s a tad bit expensive, but then again, perennials are generally more costly than annuals at the outset. I have to do more comparison shopping in the area to find out who has the best prices. I do know that I’ve never seen a bigger selection of perennials ANYWHERE, so Sugar Creek definitely gets props for that. I’m looking forward to a the next few weeks – as it warms up, the place will fill up with all sorts of fun and exciting annuals. And I will need to get a job at Sugar Creek to keep up my plant habit. Lucky for me, I haven’t stumbled into their gift shop yet – I don’t need gardening gifts and home décor items competing with my plant cash.