Can I Go RARE Plant Shopping With A $75 BUDGET? BIG BLOOMERS House Plant Shopping & Plant Haul

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

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[@kimberleyfriesenhahn2515]

Thanks for sharing. I just made my order. 😊

[@SLee-vc9gd]

Me 😭🤩 after seeing all of those HOYAS!!!!💚

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Right?? So many Hoya!!

[@ConnieP92]

Hey Ashley, I'm here wishing we had a Big Bloomers in Sydney but hopefully will try and find our equivalent(s) hahaha. Loved your haul esp the Anthurium hybrid....the Luxurians has been a wishlist plant of mine for the longest time so would settle for one like yours any day! Thanks for sharing 👏🏼🤩

[@TheMillennialPlantDad]

lol loved watching this and your reactions kept making me smile and laugh . 😅

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

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[@AhmadAsrafHashim]

Don't remove the lower shields of the platycerium. They die and wrap themselves around the roots to conserve moisture.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks for the tip!

[@yuli784]

Yes, I love it here. Thank you. I live in sanford, good for me. Ashley tried to go to growin green in Nashville NC is a long drive, but is worth it. They have the best price ever seen for rare plant.

[@dannettesavas3269]

My sister and I are going to go, but we’re driving a U-Haul

[@kellyferren2705]

Great video...the other day I went grocery shopping and had to walk over and lookcat the plants ,of course they had just got in some tropical plants no names just said tropicals twenty dollars ...well 😮 there she was in all of her beauty in the back it was a Thai constellation monstera deliciosa fair size with a new leaf which looks mostly white ...twenty dollars she followed me home

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Wow! That’s amazing!!

[@kellyferren2705]

@@LifewithAshleyAnita I thought so I did the plant dance all the way home .

[@paulkurtz6539]

What a great idea to stroll the warm greenhouses on a winter’s day. I just bought a White Knight Philo in a 4 inch pot for $9.98 at my local Star Nursery! It was a shocker.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Yes! It was toasty!

[@robynisrael1015]

Shopping with you was loads of FUN!

[@NatTayHill]

10:15. I just found Hoya Rosita at Home Depot last Saturday. They were in small thin plastic pots from Proven Winners! $5.95 a pot. I bought 2 and repotted them together. You should have seen the roots on both of them!!! So healthy and bright white. Insane.

[@Jayl__]

Yeah I find everything here very overpriced too compare to retail. I’m hoping they are actually distributors for other stores and not only relying for sales from consumers because it doesn’t seem competitive at all

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Ok I’ll have to keep an eye out for them! Thanks for sharing!

[@jenniferruth812]

Oooh, I really want a rosita.

[@kimberleyfriesenhahn2515]

Oh my goodness, I would have to arrive the moment they opened so I could take all day looking at everything.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Yes!!

[@jenniferruth812]

And have lunch brought in! 😊

[@sharongoodson2857]

Oh my goodness, I would hate to think I was going to Big Bloomers and only had a budget of $75.00 😢 I could have spent easily $750.00 there. What an awesome plant nursery. I could have spent all day there. Heaven on earth.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

It was a struggle not to buy all the plants!

[@rachelleanne2020]

I want to find a place similar to big bloomers in Florida!!

[@AngSoFab]

My sister and I recently visited Big Bloomers thanks to your channel! We left with a wagon full. Thanks for sharing your planty spots with us! 🌿💜

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

That is awesome!

[@katie77r]

I would have lost my mind at that plant shop, wow! 😂 Love your plant haul, the Hoya Obovata is a wishlist plant for me and i can't believe the size 😮 Also, that Anthurium is amazing and what a cute Euphorbia! Thanks for a great video Ashley 😊🪷💖

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks Katie!

[@marthamiriam8983]

What a great selection! I enjoyed the tour of this nursery, prices very affordable.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks for watching!

[@Miles_Hoffman]

Thanks for taking us plant shopping. 💚😎💚

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

My pleasure 😊

[@penelopelavender248]

I absolutely love that you got a glass of wine. I went and got one too. I absolutely love your platform🍷❤🍷 0:44 The wagon😂

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Haha! 🍷

[@lynettestewart5118]

Me too!

[@bridgettreese1248]

you are wonderful! as plant lovers, we understand that we can only share our plants with the people who appreciate them. i'm here for it!

[@kristengrotton6977]

Oh what I would give to have a store like that near me.... I did learn the hard way that just because a cactus looks fuzzy doesn't mean it doesn't leave some ouchies behind lol I either want thornless or huge enough I can't miss em' 😊

[@terrizimmerman5297]

The amazing elephant ear staghorn fern is definitely a high humidity plant and can be grown in a wire basket or slab.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you!!

[@dannettesavas3269]

When I lived in Florida, I had two huge staghorn ferns one was about 8 feet in diameter and the other was about 45 feet in diameter and I just hung them in my palm trees and they just loved it and when I moved back to North Carolina I had to sell them because I couldn’t get them in a truck so I sold them for $60. Each made me sick to my stomach but I didn’t have a choice😢

[@dannettesavas3269]

Four or 5 feet in diameter

[@auroraunityy]

Ohh the cotyledons pendens are huge, never seen a basket this big for sale. They bloom beautiful flowers 🏵

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

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[@marthamiriam8983]

I would love to see your succulent and cactus, rhipsalis collection.

[@102HuevosFritos]

I can’t wait for early spring and summer to find some more that are on my wishlist

[@sonjaraynor6809]

I went to big bloomers after your video. I spent so much money, thanks to you😂❤. I love all my plants

[@latanyamckenzie277]

I would be in heaven and could have sa ed so much money going there. Excellent prices and they had everyrhing on my lidt.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

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[@aaronvanderstichele8018]

the excuse me on those anthurium was my exact reaction! ahaha!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Haha 😂

[@maiyeng]

Omg "I will never get out of here" 😂 I think like that too sometimes when I go plant shopping. Great video and amazing looking plants ❤

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

So true!

[@sowemovedhere]

That made me laugh too! My husband, even when we go to the plant section at Walmart, he just goes straight to the patio chairs and takes a seat 😂

[@kaylah-156]

Thanks Ashley love your videos I am sick in bed with flu thanks for cheering me up

[@CLGrant-jr7xd]

Great video, can't wait to shop there!

[@lilycat1547]

I got a zz zenzi for 15 the other day and I am thrilled!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Great find!

[@kathylovejoy2569]

Did you ever find the plant you were looking for, that had like raindrops on the leaves? So Happy to see you showing the cactus, hardly anyone shows them, usually just the huge leafed plants.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Not yet!

[@vairaj6340]

Omg Ashley you're so lucky to be near to such great plant nuserys lush and green and that vechii you go girl🎉❤😊

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you!! 😊

[@christinaamador4884]

I love your garden, I would like to know which succulents are the HUGE type. I live in California. I am enjoying my new pasión. Thank you, Christina

[@ToniBoekhoff]

I wish we had a Big Bloomers here in Oregon 😔 What a fantastic day you had! And then wine with your plant chores...a perfect evening!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Definitely! 💚

[@tess5564]

😫😫 all of the syngoniums have me drooling. They’re so good. And I love the mandarin plant. I’m in an orange plant era.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Love it!!

[@lesamonroe208]

I can see why you get so breathless and excited Sunday the 10 th is my birthday and plants are what I'm getting myself I'm very jealous that I don't have a place like that I'm very happy for you tho lol and I do appreciate you taking us there I don't see how you can stick to a budget I love that Hoya and the cactus you got great video

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks for watching!

[@mandytx07]

Wow!! Excellent prices! The Michaelmolleira Vietnamensis is a violet in a class all to itself. It is endangered in the wild. Beautiful plant with spots that almost glow. The blooms are large and purple. I have a big one that I just love.

[@jeryckma]

A primulina is a member of the African violet family. I have one. Love it. 23:59

[@plantedbythebeach8010]

One day, I'm going to take a road trip or fly in and drive home with all those hoyas! I love that place. I'll have to watch this again.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

The Hoyas had me swooning

[@laurieramkeesoon]

Your excitement is contagious ❤Canada 🇨🇦

[@JurajSteiner]

Big bloomers vids are my favorite!! You're amazing Ash!!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Aw mine too! Thanks for watching!

[@cate7777]

Yes, I believe your fern is a fern of the staghorn genus. Platycerium is the name of that genus.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks for the tip!

[@kathylovejoy2569]

Love this video. I never knew there was such a plant as a Dragon Hoys, I love it. That is really a wonderful nursery, you could get lost in there, looking at everything.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

The dragon jade is so pretty!

[@lindacarey5769]

Love love love the plants in this shop. I would love two of them so far. I would love shop there. Thanks. I have been watching you since you first began and I have learned so much with you. ❤ 😊

[@jamessloan4422]

All your videos are absolutely amazing!! That sweater is also absolutely amazing! I love the horizontal cables!!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you! I found it thrifting! Ralph Lauren

[@Joey11122]

I love my Anthurium Queen of Hearts 💕 the inflorescence is such a beautiful pink color 💕

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

It’s beautiful!

[@peggymalabuyoc9150]

Hi Ashley, love this video and love Big Bloomers! Many thanks for sharing all this beauty with us. I thought their Hoyas looked healthy and beautiful and that their prices were good. You picked up a great haul! Great job! 👌🪴🥰

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks Peggy!!

[@dannettesavas3269]

I love that cactus that you got it looks like one of them is a little person trying to escape from the rest they look like a crowd of people😂

[@shainaray09]

I'm so jealous of Big Bloomers! I need to find a big nursery here in TN

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Yes! I went to oglewood and they had some nice plants!

[@Litchichinensis]

Been loving your thorough plant shop tours! They’ve been my main way of learning the vast variety of houseplant types 😊

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Glad you like them!

[@nicciohagan9590]

Oh my goshhhh!!! What an amazing tour! Thank you for sharing. I'm in Northern California and have never seen a majority off these plants. You are so lucky!!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

You are so welcome!

[@JacquelineJax]

I found some beautiful baby begonias today. I got 5 colors. So adorable. Also found a tri color African violet.

[@janwells2199]

I have one of those aglaonema Dalmation 6" pot, 34:07) over 2 years, north window. It is a tough cookie. It likes to dry out between waterings.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Beautiful!

[@JMS77-c9m]

This video was awesome! Thank you for taking so much time and going through everything!! That Luxurians cross is gorgeous!!

[@Horsewoman-pt2ku]

Why did I think you lived in NY? I want to visit NC so bad. Seen pics and so beautiful and you have such a great big plant shop varieties that we don’t have in Colorado

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

I recently visited NY and did a plant shopping trip! I’ve been traveling a lot and love to plant shop everywhere I go!

[@JMS77-c9m]

That was an incredible nursery! Thank you for showing us so much of it!!

[@invisblemouse]

Such a lovely and relaxing video after a stressful day. Thank you. My pretend take home is the Buddhas Temple. So beautiful.

[@sheilabroad8192]

omg. ❤ your reaction was the best part.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks for watching!

[@SSaaNNddYY77]

I would have gone wild in there!!! Heck with the budget! 😊❤🌿

[@danadaneb.5779]

Just an idea for consideration: live streaming a Big Bloomers shopping visit, so that as you are looking at stuff, viewers can chime in live with feedback on anything rare you should consider getting.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Great idea!

[@edythemullins]

Primulina's are African violet cousins - both are gesneriads. I wish that this greenhouse was near me!! Thanks for sharing it!!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Oh wow!

[@Yoliplanting]

Been looking for a Queen of Hearts and they are so expensive! I would have brought that home!🖤♥️

[@Tina-wi7we]

Freaking Hoya heaven! Super fun!!!!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

The Hoya were incredible!

[@Tina-wi7we]

It's so funny how excited you get. Same girl, same! I'd want to go with a big big budget. Man! Amazing plants.

[@ellieraggs]

Love your enthusiasm and wish the place was closer to me while at the same time glad it's not! Thanks for taking us along!

[@parttimeninja5521]

They say money 💰can't buy happiness, but it can buy plants🪴, and that's pretty much the same thing. Throw in some wine 🍷and shopping 🛍, and you've got a relaxing plantvideo

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

💯 🪴

[@Alwaysreallovely]

I screamed😂 when you said you said "I'm never going to make it out of here." That is what I say to , I would have been there 5 hours easy. I would get all my steps in without even feeling it. We could never plant shop together, we would both be flipping out with excitement.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Hahaha yes!!

[@MaggieArmenta672]

Hi Ashley I love this store, it’s awesome you have time to show us their inventory and I think I wouldn’t go to a store with very little budget, well… with a budget 😂 I’m crazy about plants as well ❤ and let me tell you I watch your videos few times sometimes because sometimes I feel I miss their names and I make my own wish list en especially if I have lost a plant and I want it again. There are some that I am determined to have them when after having them I killed them… I think we learn from mistakes 😮so I try to address my plant from a different angle ❤️‍🔥 thank you so much for letting us know also where to find this place, I’m 9 hours driving south from me… and wouldn’t mind ❤❤❤❤❤

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks for watching!

[@monicaford5341]

Ashley! Everytime you post a video from Big Bloomers, I'm soooo jelly (NC always seems to have the best plant options/inventory). I finally got a chance to go there. Last month, on my way back from VA. It was pouring rain but OMG! I loved it. Bought way too much. I'll definitely be heading back there.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Im so glad you were able to visit!

[@whilmaedghill6110]

I ASHLEY I LOVE YOUR Haul good choice ❤.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you!

[@sandyallinson2455]

The plant shopping was awesome. You choose wonderful picks ❤

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you so much 😊

[@kellymitchell8556]

Alls I can say is WOW and good thing I don't live closer lol

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Hahaha

[@michellearmstrong6732]

Loved the Luxurians x radicans..such a great price. I definitely would have bought it 🥰

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Right?!

[@tomickadepriest4724]

Omg... I feel u😍😍😍 how can you not💖💖💖

[@winnifredmalcolm6099]

Thanks for sharing, i enjoy from beginning to end, Your haul was great

[@cherieholmquist7259]

Oh, my gosh!! Don't think I could have held out as long as you did!! I just love your enthusiasm and your voice is so pleasant to listen to!! Thanks for an awesome tour!!❤❤

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you so much!!

[@fatimagibsonhenley2281]

I collect Owls 🦉and I have a little Owl pot, I never have any luck with Catus or Succulents , but I'm going to try putting a Leaf 🍃 in my little Owl. Thanks for sharing once again.

[@marieclark4609]

Hi Ashley I love all your plants you got especially the hanging one😁🥰🤩😍💛🧡🖤🤟🤟🤟

[@joanneklaus9242]

I would’ve broke the budget for sure. I’d get those 3 Anthuriums, (who cares we already have a Veitchii!), several of the Hoyas, 2 pepperoni, the Cardboard Palm.. Etc…🌿🌱😀💚

[@mariapalustre1514]

Ashley, you look gorgeous wearing that kind of make up

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you ❤️

[@timgarner1957]

Bought a tortum from there I was so sad..it died 2 days later..but rest of my plants from bloomers have faired very well. Bloomers is my most favorite place..been going there for years. That place is very dangerous! Lol.. you will spend lots of money if not careful!

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

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[@lvbaum3]

What a great nursery! I have a Monstera lechleriana variegated. They are a fun one. Beautiful variegation, easy to prop, size up SUPER quick, and they become fenestrated as the climb.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thanks for sharing! They are beautiful!

[@AngieCathcart]

Dang. I wish Big Bloomers was closer. Do you have any recommendations for nurseries with similar houseplant stock closer to Asheville?

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

I think I went to a bb barnes that was good…it’s been a while though! I bet there are some great places there!

[@RaisaVazquez]

Hi, Great Videos and Tours❤. Do they have online store?

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Unfortunately no

[@rhondafisher72]

Great choices for sure. I see how that would be hard to choose.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

It was tough deciding!🪴

[@sharonpollitt1524]

the euphorbia obesa monstruosa you got, looks very interesting Part of it looks like a person reaching out of the pot!😄

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Wow it totally does!!

[@jrosnov]

Getting excited 😂you’re gone girl,love this one,hi from Maine 😊Oh,and why are you whispering 😅

[@amymarshall1829]

I used to have a pretty large collection of African violets and streptocarpus. The tiny variegated African violet was actually a miniature AV rather than a baby plant. The leaves will stay small. The "Rob's" in the variety name indicates that it was hybridized by Dr. Ralph Robinson who specializes in hybridizing miniature African violets. If the name has "Ma's" in front, it is a standard African violet hybridized by his wife Olive Ma Robinson. If a streptocarpus has "Bristol's" in the name, that's theirs, too. In addition to hybridizing gesneriads (the plant family that AV's, streps, episcias, etc. are in), they own and operate a mail order nursery in New York. Columnea, nematanthus, and aeschynanthus are also in the gesnariad family. Nematanthus (goldfish plant) usually have shiny leaves and have the goldfish-looking flowers. Columnea's leaves aren't shiny and they have elongated flowers. Sometimes growers will mislabel a nematanthus as a columnea.

[@janwells2199]

THANKS, Amy. Good to know!.

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

Thank you for the tips!!

[@fatimagibsonhenley2281]

Your expressions 🤣 crack 🤣 me up!

[@emberdunklin5753]

Okay, i live in Texas but im seriously thinking about taking a road trip just to get some plants.

[@alicejohnson7642]

What should be done when bringing a new plant home (don't want fungus Gnats

[@newleafvibes]

"I can't point out every single one or we'll be here all d- OOH LOOK AT THIS ONE!" 😂

[@lynettestewart5118]

I have the last plant you showed for $2.95 from Home Depot. Be careful not to overrated and they like full sun.

[@lovesyorkies3395]

I wouldn’t be able to stick to a $75 plant budget there..I would take all three of those Anthuriums. I love Luxurians x’s…or Radican x’s

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

It was TOUGH

[@PhiliciaTaylor]

I love your videos ❤

[@aprilfoote8700]

Got a question. What is the best soil mix for alocasias?

[@JacquelineJax]

What’s the story of the Antheriums? Are they rare still?

[@kimberlycakes299]

Do you repot the plants you buy from there?

[@LifewithAshleyAnita]

I treat them and then repot when they outgrow the pot etc

[@cactusfeliz7003]

Hermosas plantas 🇺🇾🌵