Trends · data through September 2026

Specialty Stores in Colorado

Iceflower tracks 297 stores from 272 specialty store chains in Colorado. Apothecary Farms grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Alpine Lumber Company and Star Buds.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
272
Tracked stores
297
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Apothecary Farms and Alpine Lumber Company sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Apothecary Farms - +16.9%
2 Alpine Lumber Company - -45.5%
3 Star Buds - -52.2%
4 Way To Grow - -85.5%
  • Littleton Hearing Care
  • Bath Garden Center and Nursery
  • Mi Pueblo Latin Market # 5
  • Alpine Lumber Company
  • Home Grown
  • Loveland Garden Center
  • Gulley Greenhouse and Garden Center
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

297 tracked store locations in Colorado. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 19 of the 297 stores (6%); 256 of the 272 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are specialty stores, against 4% across the United States.

  • Littleton Hearing Care (1)
  • Bath Garden Center and Nursery (1)
  • Mi Pueblo Latin Market # 5 (1)
  • Alpine Lumber Company (5)
  • Home Grown (1)
  • Loveland Garden Center (1)
  • Gulley Greenhouse and Garden Center (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Alpine Lumber Company 5
  • 2 Star Buds 5
  • 3 Way To Grow 4
  • 4 Apothecary Farms 3
  • 5 Roper Music 2
  • 6 The Bookies Bookstore 2
  • 7 The Grow Shop 2
  • 8 Vapergate 2
  • 9 O'Toole's Garden Center 2
  • 10 Colorado Ear Care 2
  • 11 LOVA Canna Co 2
  • 12 Spa Palace Inc 2
  • 13 Hearing HealthCare Centers 2
  • 14 Green Dragon Weed Dispensary 2
  • 15 International Hot Tub Company 2
  • 16 Poncha Lumber Co 1
  • 17 Alpine Koi & Reef 1
  • 18 Elevated Views 1
  • 19 Grow Life Inc 1
  • 20 James Nursery Company 1
  • 21 Colorado Vape & Glass Co 1
  • 22 Al's Pine Garden & Nursery 1
  • 23 MileHydro 1
  • 24 Green Cross Rifle 1
  • 25 Willow River Music 1
  • 26 Creekside Garden Center 1
  • 27 Hudson Nursery 1
  • 28 Georgetown Rock Shop 1
  • 29 Chelsea Nursery 1
  • 30 Tree Land Christmas Trees 1
  • 31 Emerald Fields South Boulder 1
  • 32 Fall Mountain Farm 1
  • 33 Pinnacle Gardens 1
  • 34 Victor Guitar 1
  • 35 Elliott Gardens 1
  • 36 The Plant Gallery 1
  • 37 Vanilla Kink 1
  • 38 Koi Lagoon 1
  • 39 Summer Blooms 1
  • 40 The Paint Bucket 1
  • 41 Birdsall & Co. 1
  • 42 Stereo Warehouse 1
  • 43 Lyn's Flower & Garden 1
  • 44 Denver Folklore Center 1
  • 45 Creek Side Gardens 1
  • 46 Four Seasons Greenhouse & Nursery 1
  • 47 Everything Hot Tubz 1
  • 48 Cliffrose Garden Center and Gifts 1
  • 49 QED 1
  • 50 LOVA Canna Co - Colfax Dispensary 1

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