40 of the coolest L.A. plant stores

From longtime family-run plant shops equivalent to Mickey Hargitay Crops and Sundown Nursery to latest startups together with Latinx With Crops and Tansy, plant shops seize the essence of L.A. — a shocking, welcoming, multicultural combine that imbues each neighborhood within the metropolis with goodwill.

Crops have given us consolation after we sought refuge at house in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, so it ought to come as no shock that plant gross sales have skyrocketed and backyard shops are extra fashionable than ever.

The newest outlets supply recent takes on conventional nurseries, such because the Plant Chica — an auto store turned plant retailer in West Adams — and Misplaced Books, the used e-book retailer in Montrose the place you enter by a magical tunnel of dwell crops and may store for fiddle-leaf figs alongside copies of “All Quiet on the Western Entrance” and the bestselling cookbook “Salt, Fats, Acid, Warmth.”

Here’s a have a look at just a few of our favorites. Did we miss your favourite place to buy houseplants? Electronic mail me at Lisa.Boone@LATimes.com and I’ll examine them out.

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