From Wishlist to Whoops: 2025 Houseplant Trends, Plant Care Tips & Plant Fail Confessions From the Northwest Flower & Garden Show

Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What plants are flying off the shelves this year? If you’ve been hanging out with me on Instagram or listening to the podcast lately, you know that part of my job is traveling the country to speak at plant shows. I love getting to see what’s new, what’s trending, and honestly… just being surrounded by thousands of plants and planty people. It fills my joy tank like nothing else.

So I thought, why not bring the magic of one of these events to YOU? This episode is your virtual behind-the-scenes pass to the recent Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle. I spent three days running around with my little mic, interviewing vendors, influencers, and anyone who would talk plants with me. I came home with so much planty intel, sore feet, and a heart full of joy.

In this episode, we learn:

[00:26] What I did at Northwest Flower and Garden Show!
[04:06] Andy from Andy’s Orchids
[05:30] Molly from Rancho Cacto Nursery
[07:16] Cheyenne from Chey D Plant Lady
[10:21] Gardenia Gardens and Design
[12:43] Justin from Costa Farms
[15:19] Wind River Chimes
[17:01] Gabrielle from The Lily Pad Bulbs
[18:50] Mark from Little Prince Plants
[20:15] Anne from The Dahlia House
[23:50] Cameron from Urban Jungle Plant Shop
[27:47] The Plant Farm
[29:09] Kevin from Epic Gardening
[34:27] Kamili from Plantblerd
[38:20] Jaques in the Garden
[42:54] Davida from Condo Plant Mama
[46:05] Krystal from Plants with Krystal
[48:08] Derek from Chocolate Botanist
[49:42] Tim from Greenlife TPG
[51:07] Robbie from Visit Our Garden

Vendors:

Influencers:

Plants featured:

Neofinetia-falcata Furan Orchid
Tylecodon schaeferianus
Crassula deceptor
Anthurium doc bloc x luxurians
Conophytum “monkey’s face”
The Purple Tomato
Ranunculus Sfumato
Orchid cactus-epiphyllum beavertail
Mystery lipstick cactus from The Plant Farm

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, plant friend, quick announcement at the top of the show. I wanted to let you know I'm offering two
0:04.6	different free online classes that are 45 minutes each that are designed to help you get the most
0:11.7	out of your spring this year. I want spring and summer 2025 to be your best house plant growth
0:19.0	seasons yet. And the way that you'll sign up for these classes,
0:22.7	which are completely free, is by going to Growingjoy with Maria.com slash class. There's two options.
0:29.4	The first up is the spring house plant boost, supercharge your plant growth in three simple steps,
0:34.9	and this is a 45-minute class all about how to utilize spring
0:39.3	to set your plants up for insane growth this year. And then the second class is called the
0:44.8	ultimate guide to moving indoor plants outside and three mistakes to avoid. A lot of people
0:49.9	move their plants outside in the spring, which is fabulous, but there are massive mistakes you
0:54.1	can do that can result in some pretty bad stuff. So this class is going to go over how to do that.
0:58.7	If you're interested in either classes or both classes, you can go register for free, completely
1:04.7	free. Each class is 45 minutes at Growingjoy with Maria.com slash class. That's Growingjoy with Maria.com slash class.
1:13.1	I cannot wait to hang out with you live and share my tips.
1:21.6	If you're on social media, you might have seen that part of my job is traveling the country speaking at garden and plant shows.
1:30.3	And at these shows, I tend to get all the inside scoop from the horticulture industry on what is coming to market.
1:36.7	I can see trends.
1:38.0	And I wish that I could bring these shows to you in your home so that we could nerd out together on the new species coming to market,
1:45.9	what trends I'm seeing, all of the planty fashion that goes on at these places. So today I'm
1:51.4	experimenting by bringing the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, a massive show I attended in Seattle,
1:57.5	to you with a series of mini interviews with the biggest plant influencers and top vendors at the show to bring the show and all of the planty intel that I get to you.
2:10.1	Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully,
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