This is an incredible plant store, of which there are surprisingly quite a few in the Salem-Keizer area. My partner and I have never been too interested in gardening or planting (she refers to the house as "Plant Thunderdome") but lately we've been shopping for plants more and more. First it was just for pots for plants given to us, but now we're starting to get ideas.
So while heading towards another nursey on Commercial, we noticed a sign that said "PLANTS" on the side of the street. My partner commented on, "That seems a strange place to have a plant store."
We did not stop in then, but the next weekend, we were looking for somethin to do and thought about stopping by and checking it out.
We're glad we did. The shop is small, but absolutely jammed with a huge selection and variety of plants. The woman who helped us immediately pointed us to the succulents and cactus section, which was what we were initially interested in, but left herself open for any questions.
Which was awesome, because the place was absolutely -packed- for a Sunday. People were everywhere and it was a very upbeat and positive mood. Maybe it had something to do with the way the place smelled, but it was humming in a nice way.
We looked around a few times and saw some interesting and unique pottery and some very dazzling plants. We went to leave, vowing to come back. As we headed back to the car, my partner noticed a bright, vivacious, purple-flowered plant hanging in the window by the side of the street. We went back inside to go look at it and fell in love with the color and the composure. We're still being careful about not buying high-maintenance plants, so we looked for someone to answer questions, but every employee at the time was helping someone else. We knew we'd be back, so rather than interrupt someone else's experience, we just planned on that.
So follow up: My son -LOVES- the idea of plants. His favorite movie and musical is Little Shop Of Horrors. He can recite the movie line for line and will sing the songs constantly. So we're always on the lookout for our own "Audrey II" flytrap.
All the plant stores we've found have some, but they're little things. They might eat gnats, but certainly not flies, and they're definitely not the big carnivorous plants that I remember as a kid. But we look.
So we brought our sons here, and they were suitably impressed. They wandered the store with us, lightly touching the leaves and buds, gently and respectfully appreciating the whole store. We mentioned this to the woman helping us, who I believe is the owner, and she pointed out a very large pitcher plant in the front window. Well! That one looked a little bit more like what my son had in mind. Not quite the jaws, but huge pitchers that looked very deadly to small bugs. My son was enraptured, but disappointed when I told him that it was a "mother plant" (I think I got that right). The plant was in its permanent home. I did see that they sold cuttings of the plants from time to time.
I asked about that and she told me that generally they will have a cutting sale sometime during the year. We're looking forward to getting a cutting off that plant.
We also dithered over the beautiful purple plant we had seen in the window. We found out it just needed a lot of sun, and to be completely dry between waterings. That we can do!
We got the plant, for a very nice price. My partner intends to plant it in a disco ball hanging planter. She's very excited.
This is a great store, with some very friendly people, and a big variety of house plants to enjoy. We'll be going back many times, I'm sure. read more