The 58th annual Flower Day ran from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at Eastern Market. Mix 92.3 Free. More than 80 growers spread across five sheds WXYZ.COM with everything from impatiens, geraniums, and tomato starts to specialty hostas and shrubs that will only pay off in three or four years.
Some attendees showed up at 5 a.m. Flower Day exists because of the Metro Detroit Flower Growers Association. The format has been the same since 1967: the first Sunday after Mother's Day, growers from across the Midwest haul plants into the market sheds, and the city has its unofficial start to summer. The wagons are part of the show.
Custom multi-level wooden carts with grass hula skirts and Bluetooth speakers. Classic red Radio Flyers. Deep canvas-sided rolling totes.
Clarkston resident Monica McCabe built a multi-level cart for her mother five years ago as a Mother's Day gift, equipped with a Bluetooth speaker, that she still wheels through the market with her parents Karen and Mike Michalski. Tomatoes, citronella, cucumbers, kale, and geraniums on board.
The 2025 official Flower Day poster was designed by Detroit visual artist Allison Sims.
The first 50 prints were hand-signed and sold at $50, the rest at $25, at the merchandise booth outside Shed 3. Flower Day is one of those Detroit events that feels self-organizing. There are no headliners.
No corporate stages. Just dozens of growers, a few thousand gardeners, the mulch trucks running, and a city block's worth of plants getting carted home over a 10-hour window. Vendors continued at Saturday Markets through the season for anyone who couldn't make Flower Day proper.
The official Flower Day, though, is the one that stays on the calendar. Started 1967. Fifty-eight editions in.
Still happens once a year, the first Sunday after Mother's Day, organized by the Metro Detroit Flower Growers Association.
Location: 2934 Russell Street, Eastern Market
