Houseplant Trends in 2024

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Eliza loves that people are more and more interested in houseplants. The indoor-outdoor adaptable ones, rare ones, and even those with interesting foliage are all great to her. But she recognizes some of the houseplant fads of the past missed the mark a little. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ulaAdl Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ulzV6W Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3SWVWCA EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3UyYQ1i Connect With Eliza Blank: Eliza Blank, founder of The Sill, built a successful business in the houseplant sector in 2012, after she moved to her first apartment. By tapping into her family’s generational love of plants, she livened up her living space. This spurred the beginning of the Sill, a houseplant business that currently hosts 12 brick-and-mortar stores and delivers houseplants directly to customers. Today, Eliza continues to demonstrate a commitment to plants, brand building, and customer centricity. The Sill Shop Find your Plant Match Quiz Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok Pinterest North West Flow Garden Festival Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are wondering what is going to be hot in houseplants this year, well we have the perfect person on the show this week.
0:20.0	We have Eliza Blank, founder of The Sill, the one and only the
0:24.0	sill, 12 years ago, Eliza. So you've probably seen a lot of different trends.
0:28.8	We talked yesterday about Fiddle leaf figs and I don't know, Pink and all that sort of stuff.
0:34.0	What's on the horizon though?
0:35.4	Because I have to confess I'm a little unplugged
0:37.7	from the stream of information I guess right now
0:40.7	about house plants.
0:43.0	Well, so glad I, glad you asked because yes,
0:47.0	fiddily fig trees were a huge boom
0:50.0	when this business started.
0:51.0	I think I mentioned before, Monsteras had a bit of a moment.
0:54.8	They were definitely our number one item for a couple of years. We've gone through a few waves of color,
1:01.5	which I really like, you know, like think about like your etheorems or
1:06.1	some of the foliage that has interesting variegation. I think that was also part of the sort of rare plant explosion that we experienced
1:16.7	really in 2022 and 2023. I think some of the people who adopted house plants during COVID who got really into the hobby
1:27.6	then wanted to just kind of up their game and find the most rare
1:33.0	genetic mutation they could find.
1:36.0	Looking ahead in 2024, what I think is exciting
1:40.0	and sort of appropriate to chat with you about is we're seeing people kind of dabble with the indoor outdoor.
1:47.2	So right now we're seeing a lot of people gravitate towards, for example, an olive tree.
1:51.5	It's a house plant for many of our customers, but it can also thrive outside.
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