Suburban Lawn & Garden

Suburban Lawn & Garden is an independent, family-owned Kansas City garden-center company that traces to a grade-school lawn-mowing business Bill Stueck started in the early 1950s. It bought the 105th & Roe site in Overland Park in the early 1960s and grew from a 12-acre lot into a multi-store operation: retail garden centers at 105th & Roe, Martin City (135th & Wornall), and K-7 & Prairie Star Parkway in Lenexa, plus two growing facilities that supply roughly 75% of the trees, shrubs, annuals, and bedding plants it sells, and a yard-waste recycling center running since 1989.

Description

Suburban Lawn & Garden is an independent, family-owned garden-center company operating retail nurseries on both sides of the state line, along with growing facilities and a yard-waste recycling operation.¹

The company traces its origin to the early 1950s, when founder Bill Stueck began mowing lawns while still in grade school.¹² In the early 1960s the business purchased what became its flagship property at 10501 Roe Avenue in Overland Park — then a 12-acre lot — and grew it into a full garden center.¹ Today Suburban runs retail stores at 105th & Roe in Overland Park, at 135th & Wornall in the Martin City area of south Kansas City, Missouri, and at K-7 & Prairie Star Parkway in Lenexa; a fourth listed site at 139th & Wyandotte serves the Missouri side.¹ The Martin City property covers roughly 40 acres and is large enough that the store keeps a fleet of golf carts for customers moving between growing areas.²

Two company growing facilities supply close to 75% of the trees, shrubs, annuals, and bedding plants sold at the nurseries, which places Suburban among the metro’s grower-retailers rather than pure resellers.¹ Since 1989 the company has also run a Yard Waste Recycling Center that processes organic material into compost and mulch — an unusually early date for that kind of operation in the metro.¹

Goods and services

• Trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and bedding plants¹
• Native plants¹
• Landscape rock, mulches, and soils¹
• Garden accents and décor¹
• Lawn-care products¹
• Wild bird supplies¹
• Compost and mulch from the company’s own yard-waste recycling stream¹

Sources

Links

• Website: https://suburbanlg.com/
• About: https://suburbanlg.com/about-us/
• KC garden-center tour coverage: https://www.gardencentermag.com/media/garden-center-conference-expo-tour-kansas-city-family-tree-colonial-gardens-suburban-video/

Footnotes

1. Suburban Lawn & Garden — official “About Us” page — asserts: the business began in the early 1950s when Bill Stueck started mowing lawns in grade school; described as a family-owned Kansas City garden center; four listed locations with phone numbers (135th & Wornall KCMO 816-942-2921; 105th & Roe Overland Park 913-649-8700; K-7 & Prairie Star Parkway Lenexa 913-897-5100; 139th & Wyandotte KCMO 816-941-2438); the 10501 Roe flagship purchased in the early 1960s and grown from a 12-acre lot; two growing facilities supplying nearly 75% of the trees, shrubs, annuals and bedding plants sold; Yard Waste Recycling Center operating since 1989; product range including trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bedding plants, landscape rock, mulches, soils, garden accents, native plants, lawn-care products, and wild bird supplies. (Fetched directly 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Garden Center Magazine — “Green escapes: Garden Center Conference & Expo tours Kansas City IGCs” — asserts: Suburban Lawn & Garden was started in the early 1950s as a lawn-mowing business while the founder was in grade school and has grown to three retail locations and two growing facilities in the Kansas City area; the Martin City location covers about 40 acres and maintains a fleet of golf carts for customer use. (Fetched directly 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩²