Sunflower+ Project: STL
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The Sunflower+ Project: StL is a winner of the St. Louis Sustainable Land Lab Design Competition. The Sunflower+ Project: StL is one of 4 winners of the St.
01/21/2026
Warm up with some history about the Sunflower+ Project!
Years ago, this picturesque scene was a bit bleaker, with construction debris and weeds filling the lot instead of flowers. In stepped the Sunflower+ Project that filled the lot with blooms that welcome pollinators and people alike.
Sunflowers for Sustainability - Discover + Share The Sunflower+ Project: STL is a collaboration between the Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center and Washington University.
08/17/2025
A little utility work needed to take place in the alley between the doctors office and the sunflower site. The folks did a pretty good job of cleaning up with the passable exception of replacing some divots caused by their tires. Additionally, in this post, we have some images from around the neighborhoodand, well, not an exhaustive survey by any means, it gives us an idea of what history and policy has done to the neighborhood.
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Our Story
The Sunflower+ Project: StL is one of 4 winners of the St. Louis Sustainable Land Lab Design Competition. We plant sunflowers to create an urban biodiversity project on vacant urban land. The site work began on May 7, 2013 in Old North. We have had partner projects on Delmar and in Dutchtown. We continue to work with the Sweet Potato Project and others as opportunity presents itself.
Our spaces are simple. low cost, low input projects also serving as outdoor classrooms, pollinator projects, and gathering spaces seeking to demonstrate the value and potential of urban land in transition. Keep an eye out for our Bloomsday event during the peak flowering period and our Sustainability Flag Raising event to mark the change to colder weather.
The Sunflower+ Project is coordinated by co-founding project member Richard Reilly and his colleagues at the EarthWays Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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1318-24 Warren Street
St. Louis, MO
