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What’s the
next Big thing in houseplant trends?
The booming houseplant trend is dominated
by foliage plants.
Although it seems like there is an
infinite number of foliage houseplants to choose from, sooner or later,
customers will get bored.
Garden center managers do not want bored buyers --- they will
stop coming into the store looking for interesting plants.
So, what’s next?
We know what it is.
Flowering houseplants.
You know, we have done this
before. The last houseplant boom added
flowering plants into the mix, and it worked.
All those young people who have
found indoor plants to be satisfying were smart to start with Pothos, ZZ plants
and other indestructible’s.
Now, some adventurous indoor growers
will want to move up to houseplants that flower.
We have some already --- African
Violets, Phalaenopsis Orchids, Crown of Thorns, Begonias.
All along we have had holiday flowers,
but they get thrown away. We want the
sustainable ones that potentially can flower repeatedly with higher hobby skill
--- Christmas Cactus, Aeschynanthus ‘Big Apple’, Sinningia ‘Prudence Risley’
and all other Gesneriads.
