4 Gorgeous Plant Stores Where You Can Fill Your Home With Green
Take your first steps toward caring for another living thing.
Urban Jungle, one of the best plant stores in Philly. Photograph courtesy Urban Jungle.
Being a plant mom is the new being a dog mom is the new being an actual mom … or something like that? Here, the best places to go to greenify your home.
For Rare Plants: Hortulus Farm
Take a self-guided tour of the grounds before choosing hard-to-find specimens like rabbit’s-foot ferns, flowering maples and spiral-leaved begonias from around the world. 60 Thompson Mill Road, Wrightstown.
For Pretty Planters: Field
If a plant’s container is like the shoes that complete an outfit, consider this shop a succulent’s dream closet. 2032 Frankford Avenue, Kensington.
For Statement Plants: Stump
Stump’s spare, curated shop looks more like a chic apartment than a nursery. Which makes sense, because the staff thinks about houseplants—lush fiddle-leaf figs, spreading philodendrons, elegantly trailing satin pothos—as design elements. 956 North 2nd Street, Northern Liberties.
For City Plants: Urban Jungle
With trellised containers, vertical plant walls, and flowering window boxes, these experts will help you turn any postage-stamp-size patio or concrete backyard into an oasis. 1526 East Passyunk Avenue, East Passyunk.
Published as “A Tree Grows in Philly” in the August 2019 issue of Philadelphia magazine.
