Flower Face Gardens

Welcome to Flower Face Gardens! 

We are a native wildflower garden & botanical shop located in Southwest Michigan. We offer native plant seeds and seedlings, and a wide array of products from our gardens. Check back soon once the growing season starts to see what we have sprouting!💚

Why choose Flower Face? 

We grow plants that are found wild in our native local Michigan ecosystem. Many of these are becoming increasingly threatened or endangered as urban sprawl increases, lawns are tamed, and gardens turn to invasives and cultivars. Here, we collect seeds from our own native garden (leaving plenty for the birds, of course), and hope to get these true natives back into the ecosystem, to help create bridges for our pollinators, to connect food sources and habitats, and to help the health of our lands.

While other greenhouses and commercial sellers may say they provide natives, what they really sell are cultivars; plants that have been bred for a specific height, color, or scent. These cultivars are much, much harder for pollinators to detect, because they have been so modified that they don't resemble the true plant at all to a bug's eye! Here, no such cultivars are found - only the true native plants in all their glory.

How to spot a cultivar: when browsing plants, look at the tag or the sign in front of them. If the scientific name has another name after it in quotations, then that is the cultivar. A popular example that I often see is Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella'.

Flower Face and Blodeuwedd

Flower Face Gardens was created in honor of the Welsh goddess Blodeuwedd. She was created from nine flowers; namely, oak, broom, and meadowsweet. Her name directly translated from Welsh is "flower face". Meadowsweet, while being a native Welsh flower, is also an endangered Michigan wildflower, found in damp forests and wetlands. To learn more about Blodeuwedd and her story, read the fourth branch of the Mabinogion, or check out this link on the website of The Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids.