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Best modern, specialist plant/horticulture retail shops?
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Posted by berlin_berlin (My Page) on Wed, Feb 13, 08 at 7:18
| Hi there,
I am doing some research on opening a store, and was hoping I could get some recommendations of some highly-regarded specialist/exotic plant stores anywhere in the world.
I am not looking for "gardening" or "nursery" stores, but rather retail store-fronts that successfully cater to the specialist/exotic plant market for interior design/ landscape design / hobbyist market with a "modern" flair. That may be a a little confusing I know, but the type of store I am looking for I cannot seem to find many good examples of - hence my "vague" description.
Any help, guidance, or suggestions would be appreciated.
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RE: Best modern, specialist plant/horticulture retail shops?
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| I'm sure there are a few out there somewhere, but none in the Baltimore/Washington area that I am aware of. The glory days of the 1970's trendy houseplant stores are over. Most people want to buy cheap plants from the discount store or the grocery store. The few who appreciate good stuff find a high-end garden center with a decent selection of houseplants and pay a premium for the quality. Or they hire a designer or interior landscaping firm to find the containers and plants and install them. I'll be interested to see if anyone knows of stores such as you describe - I'd love to visit one! |
RE: Best modern, specialist plant/horticulture retail shops?
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| Actually, the Smith & Hawken store in Chevy Chase, MD is all high priced gardening/garden decorating stuff. they have seasonal plants like orchids, as well as stuff a suburbanite would put in their garden (that's not a plant). I don't live in an area that can support a specialty shop like that, execept for maybe orchid stores, so I don't have anything to offer on the exotic plant side of things. |
RE: Best modern, specialist plant/horticulture retail shops?
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- Posted by bahia SF Bay Area (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 17, 08 at 23:44
| You should check out the web site for Flora Grubb Nursery in San Francisco, at www.floragrubb.com. I am not sure if there is a web site for another San Francisco specialty nursery, Living Green, but this is also a very interesting high end indoor plant store and gallery. If you are visiting in the San Francisco Bay Area, (no web site that I know of) you should also check out The Dry Garden Nursery in Oakland. No shortage of specialty higher end nurseries here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they are all doing pretty well financially, with good business even during the developing recession... |
RE: Best modern, specialist plant/horticulture retail shops?
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| Check out www.tropicals.ca in Canada somewhere. It's an interior landscaping firm that also supposedly has a small retail store. |
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