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Get ready for Holiday Plants!

Don't delay on your holiday plant orders. Our baby girl is expected soon and we want to ensure we have you taken care of.

Have a special request for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any of the holidays in between?

Please contact us right away to get to planning.

Once our baby girl arrives, our time will become much more precious and we’d hate to let you down! 

Be sure to check our google maps hours before heading over. We will update there if we are closed unexpectedly. 

Plant Shop hours for the remainder of the year: 

Friday and Saturday’s 1pm-6pm

Always accepting special orders. 

We deliver around Vancouver, and welcome order pick-up’s any day of the week.

Special Hours for November given baby hasn’t arrived:

Thanksgiving 11/24: 9am-2pm

(Grab last minute hostess gifts, floral arrangements, or the last of the succulent pumpkin arrangements!)

Friday 11/25 and Saturday 11/26: 11am-6pm

CLOSED: 12/2 and 12/3 (Expected Arrival Week of Baby)

Pumpkin Succulent Arrangements are available until Thanksgiving

Let our fabulous pumpkin arrangements adorn your table for Thanksgiving or any gathering. Nothing screams Fall more like a pumpkin and nothing screams perfect gift like a fancy pumpkin. 

We typically need two days turn around time for any pumpkin orders. Supply of pumpkins are becoming more limited, so please do not delay on ordering if you want one or many to give as gifts or to dress-up your table this year.

Note: We are out of stock on medium-sized pumpkins.

Let Suburban Succulents deck your halls this Christmas!

We’ve got the hook-up on Poinsettia’s- grown locally in Oregon. 

Various colors are available this year, however, we will be keeping a limited stock available in the shop and mainly ordering off your special orders.

Don’t know how many you’ll need? Reach out and we’ll help you figure it out. 

 

Orders do not need to be picked up/delivered when placed. Let us know when you’d like your plants and we will accommodate. Most times, clients wait until after Thanksgiving to begin staging their poinsettia’s.

We also have various-sized wreaths available this year! 

Send us an email to order for your home or business! More details are available if desired. 🙂

Contact: adriane@suburbansucculents.com

Holiday gifting with plants and non-living Items.

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If you’ll recall last year, we made this great holiday guide for you all. In it we highlighted the spectacular local makers we work with at the shop… Well, we have run out of time to do that this year with our preparing for baby, but not to fear- we will still be a one-stop-shop for your locally-made gifting needs! 

We have lots of pots, candles, soaps, plant supplies, and other nifty-gifties available as of now and will be adding more in the next couple weeks. We won’t be restocking on any holiday items, so get them early.

We try our darnedest to keep our Doordash page up to date with new and exciting items that come into the shop, from seasonal floral arrangements to gift sets. We also have a small listing of locally made soaps and candles among other little add-ons.

Christmas items will be added right after Thanksgiving!

Need to send a gift to someone local or want something last minute for a hostess gift? We’ve got you covered. Delivery typically in an hour’s time!

We want to thank everyone in our Community for ALL the support we have received this year, whether it’s through your special orders, Doordash, coming into the shop, plant maintenance clients, or in general providing me support with the new baby. We are grateful to serve our community with your plant-y needs and lend a listening ear when your plants act-up. We are truly thankful for another successful year. Cheers to another great year of plant growing and surviving the ups and downs that inevitably will happen.  ~Adriane and Brett

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Are you ready to fall back?

And just like that, we are a month into Fall 2020. I was just informed that we are expecting our first below-freezing night next week. AH! Time to stop watering and start to monitor closely those tender succulents and cactus, Folks! It’s been a while since the last post, so read on to find out where Suburban Succulents is now.

New Greenhouse!
Slowly filling the new greenhouse

October 2020 is going to mark an important milestone for Suburban Succulents in the coming years- It’s the month I took a giant leap; put my notice in at my full-time, stable-income job to focus my efforts fully on Suburban Succulents. It has been many hours of work to prepare mentally and physically to get our shop space ready to invite customers into- and we are almost there! We even have regular open hours on the weekends.

Now that I have gained 50 hours in my week, I’ve been able to get to more on my Trello to-do lists done… the lists are actually getting checked off instead of only adding to! Currently, the plants are flourishing and our collection is growing like crazy. We are working with several local artists to offer unique gifts as well! I’ll post their information on a vendor page on our website soon. My concept of running a plant & gift shop is coming to life and it feels like the perfect time.

Cactus seeds have been started in the workshop, succulents have been propagated in the nursery, houseplant starts are growing too, plans are being made to keep the greenhouse warm this winter, the chickens are now laying eggs, and the ground of the trash piles that we inherited at the house is in sight- almost 10 months later, we have made tremendous progress!!

With winter hanging its cold head over us- we are getting serious about our winterizing plans for this year. Every other year we’ve lived in WA State we have suffered a loss of some inventory due to freezing. I am trying everything (bar bringing every single plant inside) to keep all succulents & cactus alive this year. I have read about using bubble wrap- I think I have enough in storage to wrap the entire greenhouse- if it comes to it, so be it!! 🙂 We have completed our last watering and will only spot water the hardy cacti and succulents from now until Spring.

Adriane & Chickens
Adriane feeding some of the chickens an ear of corn we grew!

I am absolutely loving the chickens. In my opinion, they are the best “back-yard pet” ever. They provide us amazing eggs and they are cute as all get out- if we had less space though, I am sure I’d feel differently- dodging all the shit piles is a challenge but certainly keeps life interesting!

We are raising another three chicks that will be added to the rest of the flock in another 2 months or so- currently, they are living in the workshop under their heat lamp and seem overly excited to get out of there. It’s too soon, ladies!! 😉 I take them outside occasionally to see their sister-hens from a distance. I think it is important to introduce new animals to the rest of the family as soon as possible- we don’t need any problems when the time comes to integrate the different age groups.

The front yard garden is still producing fall crops- small bits of broccoli, carrots, and radish with overwhelming amounts of kale and chard. Fava beans are coming in and our cover crops are taking over. We’ve planted 3 different kinds of garlic for next year. Amazingly to me, the wildflower bed is still flowering- my diligent deadheading has indeed helped. Brett and I are even working on an extensive seed catalog for next year to bring to you all!

in the garden
Fall garden bed

That’s all for now from our garden- even though there is so much more to share! Comment below any questions or maybe ideas of ways to keep the greenhouse warm, or anything else you’d like. Happy Fall and hope to see you in the shop soon!

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Upcoming Workshops in Camas

Wow, we are overjoyed with the support we have received from the community! We have three upcoming workshops in the month of April and possibly more on the way.

The first is with the Vancouver Housing Authority- so these tickets will not be available to the public.

Secondly, we will be at The Lacamas Lake Lodge 4/22 at 6pm for a family-friendly, build your own succulent terrarium class. Tickets are available for $30 on our website.  This workshop is brought to you in collaboration with Camas Parks & Recreation. https://www.suburbansucculents.com/product/succulent-workshop-lacamas-lake-lodge-4-22/

Lastly, Artful Attic is hosting us at their shop in Camas on 4/27 at 6:30. Tickets are $50 and will include drinks! Here is the link to purchase tickets https://www.meetup.com/Camas-Art-Meetup/events/259700636/

We look forward to seeing you at one of these events!

If you are interested in or have a place in mind to host a succulent event, please let us know! We still have availability in April & May and will work with you to offer the event you desire.

Hope you all are enjoying Spring thus far. The growing season has definitely begun!

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Spring is Here!

It’s the first day of Spring and tonight you will see the last super moon of 2019 to boot! What are you doing to celebrate?

Our month-long absence has not been in vain- we have been working hard to prepare the succulents for their Spring move back to the greenhouse and outdoors. It is almost that time again to move them outside.

We have BIG plans for the outside this year. We are going to open the yard to customers! We do not have an exact opening date yet, but you will be the first to know… Planning for mid to late April.

Along with that, we are being contacted to host a myriad of workshops around Vancouver & Camas! Come join us at our next one at Artful Attic on April 27. We have tickets available on our home page. Stay tuned for the next dates, to be announced.

If you are interested in having Suburban Succulents join your group for a class to create your own Succulent piece, contact us today. We have many options available for beautiful projects we can guide you in making.

Since Adriane started a full-time job that requires her to work on Friday’s- we have taken a short break from Night Market Vancouver. Her schedule changes to allow an earlier work end time on Friday’s in a couple of months, we will be back as soon as we can!

With that, we have applied for the Salmon Creek Farmer’s Market- taking place on Tuesday’s. We are patiently awaiting the response of if we are in or not.

And finally, the last piece of news for you all, we have taken on our first commercial plant maintenance client- Come check out our plants- a collection of Succulents & Houseplants- at River Maiden Coffee Shop- located off E. Mill Plain Blvd. The shop has partnered with FVHS to have students create & build plant shelving in the windows as well as a hanging fixture in the center of the building. It is going to be our pleasure to supply the plants and maintain them each week! We are over the moon excited for this opportunity.

If you have been thinking of sprucing up your office, store, or home- contact us for all of your succulent or houseplant desires. We have access to any plant options you are interested in and have over 10 years of plant-care experience.

Stay tuned for our next blog post where we will start to share pictures of the succulents as well as what we are up to in the garden.

Until then, Happy Spring! Time to get outside and planting those beautiful gardens. 🙂