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Potted plants and flowers crowd the pavement outside grow urban's shopfront, lettered 'Plants, Botanical Goods, Coffee'.
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Grow Urban

A plant shop and café in the New Town, founded in 2019, selling houseplants, pots and garden tools, with coffee and cake among the leaves.

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Welcome

On St Vincent Street, potted plants and flowers crowd the pavement and garden tools line the arched doorway, beneath gilt lettering on the window.

Visited and photographed by Simon Hird

On the door, gold letters invite you to enter the urban jungle.

Inside, dark green and orange walls are hung with trailing plants, shelves of pots and framed prints, above an antique chest of drawers, and a neon sign glows between the hanging baskets. At the back, a bright room is filled with hanging plants and pendant lamps. There are sprays, gloves, soil and garden books on wooden shelves, and small round tables in the window nooks for a cappuccino and a chocolate cookie. Come for a coffee, and go home with a plant under your arm.

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Before you go

Houseplants and outdoor plants, pots, tools, plant-care products and gifts, with coffee and cake.

Well-behaved dogs are welcome.

Where
St Vincent Street, in the New Town, near Stockbridge.

Opening hours

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Monday
10.30am–5pm
Tuesday
10.30am–5pm
Wednesday
10.30am–5pm
Thursday
10.30am–5.30pm
Friday
10.30am–5.30pm
Saturday
10.30am–5.30pm
Sunday
10.30am–5.30pm

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Potted plants including a kokedama moss ball crowd a wooden crate on a shelf at grow urban.
Did you know

It began in a Pilkington building.

Graham Savage founded Grow Urban in 2019 in Fountainbridge, in a Victorian Gothic building designed by Frederick Thomas Pilkington.

Garden sprays, tools and potting supplies fill wooden shelves at grow urban.
Did you know

A glasshouse indoors.

The larger shop, in a Georgian building, opened in 2021 and has a glasshouse inside it.

Potting soil, spray bottles and garden books fill a wooden shed shelf at grow urban.
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A potting shed.

Inside is a potting shed of its own, stocked with plant-care products and tools.

A canvas tote reading 'drink coffee, buy plants, repeat' hangs on a hook beside trailing plants at grow urban.
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Plant Gurus.

The staff are known as Plant Gurus, and will advise on which plant suits your room and how to keep it alive.

A canvas tote reading 'drink coffee, buy plants, repeat' hangs beside potted plants at grow urban.
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Packed by hand.

Every order sent out by post is picked and packed by hand in the Edinburgh shop.

A small table and stools sit in a window nook framed by hanging and potted plants at grow urban.
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Where it is

On St Vincent Street, in the New Town near Stockbridge.

Close byThe places nearest Grow Urban, between the New Town and Stockbridge.
  1. The PantryThe PantryA brunch café on North West Circus Place, opened in 2012.Under a mile 1 min by road
  2. Circus LaneCircus LaneA curving cobbled mews of the early 1800s behind Royal Circus.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. Golden Hare BooksGolden Hare BooksAn independent bookshop on St Stephen Street, its books shown face out.Under a mile 1 min by road
  4. Smith & GertrudeSmith & GertrudeA wine and cheese bar opened in 2015, with cheese to match every glass.Under a mile 1 min by road
  5. Entrance to The Scottish Gallery, since 1842, flanked by potted shrubsThe Scottish GalleryOne of the oldest galleries in Edinburgh, exhibiting since 1842.Under a mile 1 min by road
  6. StockbridgeStockbridgeAn old village on the Water of Leith, with a market arch of 1825.Under a mile 2 min by road
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