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Blooming Soon! Bulb Sale is Here!
**We have a few bulbs left! Call us at 314-772-4646 to order them while supplies last!** This year’s Blooming Soon! selection includes the classic Carlton daffodil. Available in bags of 30-count bulbs for only $17, Carltons have a large, yellow cup and give off a light vanilla fragrance. Carltons adapt extremely well to our unpredictable […]
Brightside’s Been Busy!
Brightside has been busy with events on events! Our annual St. Louis Gardening Symposium was a hit last weekend. Presented as a hybrid virtual and in-person event, native plant and pollinator experts shared their knowledge with neighbors through presentations and tours of the Brightside Demonstration Garden! A big thanks to our experts- Nina Fogel, Scott […]
Flowers for Downtown 2022
Show your St. Louis pride and be part of this year’s efforts to make downtown St. Louis a more beautiful, vibrant and inviting destination! Gather your friends, family, co-workers or community group and join us on Saturday, May 21st **RESCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 11** to help plant flowers along Market Street and Tucker Boulevard in conjunction with […]
2022 St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium
Join us Saturday, June 4th, 2022 for this year’s St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium located at Brightside St. Louis’ Demonstration Garden at 4646 Shenandoah Avenue. *limited virtual participation available Register for the Symposium The symposium will feature two special guest speakers leading hour-long presentations. We’re pleased to have Gerardo Camilo, Ph.D., Biology professor at Saint Louis University […]
Boost Your Gift on #GiveSTLDay
_____________________________________________ THANK YOU for planning your donation to Brightside on #GiveSTLDay – Thursday, May 5th! ______________________________________________ No matter the size, your #GiveSTLDay donation can have an even greater impact when you donate during specific time frames. Boost your gift during various Power Hours throughout #GiveSTLDay. We are excited and grateful for the generosity of the William A. Kerr […]
Volunteers Bring the Demo Garden to Life
While Brightside’s programs have evolved over the years, our commitment to creating a cleaner, greener, more sustainable St. Louis has remained constant. In honor of Earth Month we pause to thank the thousands of volunteers and donors who have helped make this possible over the past 40 years. Today is also a great opportunity to […]
Clean-ups to Daffodils
Since 1982, Brightside and volunteers have been working hard to clean up neighborhoods. Over time, we quickly learned that cleaning up wasn’t enough. We needed to do more to make St. Louis beautiful so we started planting daffodils. More than 14 million daffodils were planted in all! 🤩🌼 Celebrate the beauty of STL with us! […]
A Blast From the Past: Project Greenlot
In 1982, St. Louis had thousands of overgrown vacant lots filled with fallen buildings and dumped debris. To address this destabilizing environmental injustice, the Operating Engineers Local 513 apprenticeship program relocated to St. Louis to work with Brightside and the City to clear vacant lots. For the next ten years, they transformed city neighborhoods by […]
