Best Bud is an LGBTQ+-owned and women-owned flower studio in Kensington, San Diego, operating from a shared retail space at 4153 Adams Avenue in the 92116 ZIP. Founder Kathleen Dore — a Native Poppy alum who built her design career in San Diego's event-floral industry — runs Best Bud with a focus on modern and unconventional arrangements that lean toward artistic, moody, and tropical compositions. Dore's event work extends into the dining and hospitality spaces that anchor the Adams Avenue corridor, where restaurants with private-event programs including Bleu Bohème represent the kind of venue where Best Bud's floral installations transform a dinner service into a production-level setting. The studio handles full-service event design through its Best Bud Events division, producing wedding installations, tablescapes, and ceremony arches alongside the everyday bouquets and lifestyle gifts sold from the Kensington storefront. The 4153 address sits between Edgeware Road and Marlborough Drive in the Kensington village section of Adams Avenue, east of Kensington Drive where the neighborhood's residential character gives the commercial blocks a smaller, walkable scale. Best Bud shares its space with Home Ec, a cookbook and kitchen-goods shop, and the two businesses co-host community workshops and pop-up events that draw foot traffic from across the Normal Heights neighborhood. The retail side of the studio stocks dried arrangements, potted plants, and seasonal bouquets built from blooms sourced through San Diego wholesale flower suppliers. Gift buyers pairing flowers with jewelry for occasions find a natural complement at Cecilia's Fine Jewelry on the same Adams Avenue stretch. Dore's arrangements frequently incorporate non-traditional elements — tropical foliage, seasonal fruit, and textural dried botanicals — that distinguish the studio's output from the standard dozen-rose format.