Gateway Greening | Urban Roots

Urban Roots

About Urban Roots

Gateway Greening, in association with the St. Louis Master Gardeners, participates in Urban Roots, a downtown St. Louis landscape enhancement initiative. Urban Root’s Mission is to engage and provide resources to volunteers from the gardening, educational, business, horticulture green industry and non-profit service communities to enhance the St. Louis urban landscape, ultimately realizing an improved quality of life for those who reside, work and enjoy life in downtown St. Louis.

Current Urban Root’s participation by Gateway Greening and the St. Louis Master Gardeners, led by the Gateway Greening Civic Greening Committee, includes creation of seasonal color horticultural displays at Kiener Plaza and the nearby Market Street landscape medians.

Since 2005, the Gateway Greening team:

annually develops a theme and specific planting designs for the seasonal color displays;
creates variety-specific plant lists to fulfill the planting design requirements for appropriately placed “thrillers,” “fillers” and “spillers;”
coordinates plant material production with regional wholesale growers, prepares the planting soils;
manages delivery logistics and on-site staging of the plant materials;
supervises on-site plant layout and installation by teams of civic-minded volunteers;
consults St. Louis Master Gardener volunteers providing summer plant care;
oversees the contracted professional landscape services of Horstmann Brothers Landscape Services to manage the drip irrigation systems, plant nutrition and Kiener Plaza turf maintenance;
engages the autumn removal of the summer displays; and
designs and creates, subject to funding availability, winter season decorative displays associated with The St. Louis Planters at Kiener Plaza

Supporters

Urban Roots participation by Gateway Greening is made possible by the financial and in-kind support by a variety of St. Louis community-minded business citizens. Current supporters include: