Pauline Cella and husband, John Cella, purchased a farm on a whim. Located in O’Fallon, Missouri, and owned by a friend of the couple, the property was operating as a nursery when the Cellas expressed interest in buying it, should their friends ever want to sell it. Three months later, they were the proud new owners of Planthaven Farms. In the decades since, the Cellas have quadrupled the size of the greenhouse to 150,000 square feet and expanded production to yield enough plants to stock Planthaven’s two offsite locations: a garden center and gift shop in Oakville that opened in 2017 and a second
