Our Mission

PlantCon International was created to fortify and bolster local plant communities across the nation by providing horticultural education and exposure, promoting horticultural appreciation, and providing a hub for connection, intellectual exchange, and otherwise impossible connections to be formed between local businesses, community members, and industry leaders.

These connections, formed in a microcosm that is uniquely PlantCon, drive the world of plants forward and create enduring partnerships and friendships whose effects grow to benefit the plant world as a whole.

Our Story

2020

Our Beginnings

We started doing local plant meetups in November 2020 that served as safe, outdoor gathering spaces for our community to meet and get to know the faces behind the profiles (a feeling I'm sure we're all too familiar with!) Eventually, this grew to incorporate and centralize in-person plant selling, community workshops, and a consolidated time and place for purge pickups in parking lots around Houston. Several sellers would purge throughout the week and then all come to Houston Plant Market so their buyers could pick up from one place rather than having to drive around town.

2022

Houston Plant Market

We're currently run free local community markets all around Houston. We also do other themed events like holiday markets and block parties. Since our inception, we've hosted hundreds of events and pride ourselves on our ability to mobilize and innovate to pull off some pretty spectacular events that benefit the local community!

2023

PlantCon

We've always loved centralizing communities to help create more accessible experiences for their members, and this spirit is what led us to launch PlantCon. Our goal is to unite thousands of hobbyists, hundreds of sellers, and dozens of plant organizations in one place each year, giving local communities access to horticultural education, connections with local and international growers, and opportunities to build relationships with plant lovers nationwide. We're committed to representing and including all of these groups under one event, bridging gaps and creating a plant convention that truly ALL can enjoy.

To Our Community, Thank You.

It's thanks to the support of our local businesses, community leaders, and plant people nationwide that we've been able to make it this far in our journey. At each PlantCon event, we celebrate our community by giving local makers a platform to shine alongside established plant exhibitors. We open our doors to plant organizations from around the world, offering free booth spaces so they can connect with attendees and grow their reach. Come find yourself a new cause to connect with and root for!