Top 5 places to get FREE plants | How to get free plants

With a channel name like "Free Plants Forever" you'd like to think I have advice on the best places to find free plants... and I do! In this video I go through a detailed list on where and how you can find free plants. From plant swaps and public places, to proplifting and grabbing leaves from places like Home Depot, I discuss the methods on finding free plants, the controversy that surrounds some of these methods, as well as the logic I use when I look for free plants.
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Tip 5: Your own plant collection
02:50 - Tip 4: Friends and family
03:32 - Tip 3: Community & social media websites
05:09 - Tip 2: Looking for curbside or neighborhood plants
07:59 - Tip 1: Proplifting from garden centers (responsibly!)
11:40 - Outro
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[@krysdube1027]

I have a small plant business and always give people pieces or clippings. It's part of sharing the love and building a community.

[@trblessed1020]

I'm building my collection as we speak and I have already started cuttings and things and jars just to see if I can do it number one because I'm at the beginning of my journey but once they start I want to gift them to people. The people in the plant community have been so generous with their time with their answers to questions and even with their plants and I am going to do the same thing I'm going to get better and better at it and I'm going to give back just like it was given to me So thank you❤

[@purpleluna8413]

Your awesome 👍 ♥️

[@sunilddandgawal5032]

Can I also get a free cutting from you

[@tyatya938]

So sweet!

[@brandinichole2490]

I purchased some plants at a market from a vendor and struck up a conversation. I ended up telling him how heartbroken I was that my Tradescantia had died recently due to some unfortunate circumstances. He immediately reached into his bag and pulled out a TON of Tradescantia cuttings and just handed them to me, gleefully. I have grown them into full, healthy plants. Plant people are usually pretty generous.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Amazing! and it's true, plant people really love sharing their plants.

[@Sexygrammy1111]

I Have had 3 Tradescantia that plant does not like me. It’s so full and beautiful when I get it but few weeks later it is dying.

[@brandinichole2490]

@@Sexygrammy1111 they are fussy sometimes!

[@somanybroomsticks]

As a vendor who’s company contracts with home depot, please, PLEASE take the fallen leaves if you want them!! Otherwise they just get stepped on or rot or eaten by the birds. Just don’t pull leaves off the plants. We also tend to just throw away an unacceptable amount of product that usually just needs a repot or some water, so if you see a vendor, ask! We’re happy to give out any product that was destined for the trash. The worst we could say is no!

[@FreePlantsForever]

Yes! Thank you, so happy to hear from a vendor. I've talked to so many Home Depot vendors that say the same thing. We all love plants. A little friendliness and conversation always makes a difference.💚

[@davegoesthedistance]

Here’s one to add to your list: restaurants! Specifically, I love growing new basil plants from the stems when I get pho from Vietnamese restaurants. They usually give an array of items to add to the soup on a side plate and I’ve had many a basil plant started this way.

[@macareuxmoine]

Same with mint stalks from cocktail bars 😊

[@trblessed1020]

Genius

[@FreePlantsForever]

I love this! Such a great idea, and I bet that is some tasty basil!

[@SpringNotes]

I admire your ethical, frugal ways of getting free plants !

[@firstnamelastname6193]

stealing is not ethical. Taking leaves or stems from a healthy plant and walking away with it is stealing

[@dorindafulton]

Great video ☺️ I get free plants from Lowes and home Depot all the time. Also when the trucks unload new plants, the truckers will let you have everything left on the floor of the truck. I'm gonna make a video soon also of all my free plants. Thanks for sharing and happy gardening 🌿🌱😊🤗

[@FreePlantsForever]

Oh, waiting for the trucks is a great idea - would love to see your free plants! Happy gardening to you too!

[@crazyshelly2628]

Brilliant!

[@janstewart2041]

I joined the carnivorous plant community and they give and trade plants all the time

[@peppercat8718]

That's great Dorinda :)

[@theowner5052]

And when is truck day 😭

[@marybethlowry2368]

I live up north where a lot of plants don’t make it thru the winter unless you bring them into your house. My friends laughed at me when I tell them I go to the cemetery in the fall and get free plants people throw away when they clean up the graves. I never take anything off a grave but do look thru the garbage cans that are set out.I have gotten hardy mums, germanium’s, vinca , spikes, dusty miller ,and some bulbs after Easter.I keep them in my basement and around late April or May I cut them back (germanium) and repot them and bring them upstairs in sunny windows.I have a gorgeous pink germanium that I have had for 6 yrs now. In the fall I just bring it back in.

[@jcwolfe1751]

When I was 8 years old I discovered cactus and succulents. And when you’re a kid, you don’t really have money to buy anything, so I went around and knocked on all the neighbors doors that had plants that I liked and asked if I could take cuttings. After a while I had a huge collection. And in later years I would dumpster dive at the local nursery every day after closing and would get a whole truck full of plants and pots that they discarded. In fact I had so many of these plants, I gave two truck loads to the local garden club for their plant sales.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Amazing! I've always found plant people are happy to share the wealth.

[@jonathanryals9934]

Somewhere out there is an older gardener that can't get out as much and would love to trade some baby plants for like 5 minutes of weeding. I was helping the neighbor, and there were like 20 Japanese maple seedlings she let me scoop up. I kept 10 alive over the winter, and they just took off. Not to mention all the overgrown plants she needs divided... Lariope and lillies galore! Also, this weird curly tree has a branch touching the ground that is rooted, so I might get that too and start my own :)

[@FreePlantsForever]

Lovely! What a wonderful way to connect with your neighbor and trade some plants along the way. ❤️

[@joannbaumann4028]

LOLL I am the older gardener that gives plants away to neighbors. I dig as exercise. My garden is exercise.

[@rulistening7777]

A Great Suggestion 🌺🌸💖💮🌷🌺💖🌸🌷

[@candicecassel1110]

My neighbors are plant poopers😒😒😒…and I’ve had several plants stolen from my front porch👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[@joannbaumann4028]

@@candicecassel1110 I would give you some of mine!

[@mercedesmansionsuvlife3974]

Paused @1:02 To compliment 1) Your acknowledgment of possible privilege at play. 2) The first tip just smacked me in the face about an hour ago! Last week I trimmed off all the new shoots from my spider plant not thinking much of it. So, I'm excited to watch the rest of this video. Lol...😊

[@victoriawhite3662]

I was at lowes admiring new racks not unloaded yet “I want them all!” Lowes employee responded “ a lot of them will be in the dumpster in a few weeks” if you are willing to dumpster dive.

[@tinahelton3062]

Our Lowe’s does not allow retrieving from dumpsters. They also toss racks of potted succulents. Ditto hanging plants. Pots and all. I asked to buy the potted plants to recycle the dirt, pot, and maybe plants. Firm NO. To the landfill they go😢

[@williamdenton-qd3sn]

Thats plain greed if i cant sell it no one can have it. i have encountered quite a few like that i dont patroize stores like that and pulled a lucrative contract from home depot because of it. And they told me they dont need my business. They keep their dumpsters inside their yard so no one can get anything i guess a billion dollar corporation can never have enough money.@@tinahelton3062

[@williamdenton-qd3sn]

Thats what i do if i can get to them i get more from walgreens or cvs than the big box stores.the more money they make the less willing they are to give.

[@SouthCountyGal]

They say that, but their dumpsters are all behind locked fences. :-(

[@Sweet87671]

My neighbor and I are exchanging. Sometimes i leave plants for her, and sometimes she had left me on the porch! It is the best feeling!! Like having gift just for me!!

[@user-md7mk7fb8g]

Gardeners share. Sharing and community is a big part of a gardener's ethos. At least the ones I've met.

[@victoriawhite3662]

Check the carts in the parking lot There are always broken stems in some of those

[@eskennedy5]

Great idea!!!

[@marty8722]

My husband is a landscaper so i lucked out. Sometimes people move and want their young trees or shrubs removed, and guess who takes them? My husband, and brings them home to me :)

[@FreePlantsForever]

That's awesome!

[@brendamaun5455]

SCORE!!

[@angelofmusic314]

I love how concise and informational you are. You just get to the point, and everything you say is totally helpful. Thank you! 😊

[@FreePlantsForever]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for stopping by!

[@snacktime4932]

the last one so true, i used to work at a seasonal garden center that used venders and frankly it was heat braking exprience. we threw away so many plants every day, to make room for truck loads of new plants. it sickens me that we throw away all those plants instead of giving them to shelters or free to food shelf or anything like that, we had no training and one time a coworker of mine over watered the tomatoes and i had to throw away 5000 moldy tomatoe plants and it wasnt even a problem cuz the truck comes in the morning that was the motto...o well truck comming in the morning... we tossed more plants then we sold and its sickening. please resuce plants from garden centers its a disgusting practice

[@ramonavargas9860]

I came across your video by accident, but I'm so glad I did. I have subscribed because I love listening to people who speak green thumb.

[@HokusMommy]

As an African American girl. I appreciate you saying you under that you have some privilege. Usually people are nice to me, but mainly because I'm nice first. :)

[@hollyhold562]

I find your advice straightforward, honest, planty (that's a compliment), and wise. As a 70 yr old, w serious health issues I didn't have until 2015, I subsist on less than $10K/year and fully support my 16 yr old autistic grandson (his parents are immature + have issues w drugs). Having said all that -- my ego tells me I don't deserve or need help of any kind. It's like I'm an entitled masochist! Sigh. Watching, subbing your channel, is my effort to work on this, instead of simply fantasizing about feeling well enough to get a job (in crummy, Republican Utah -- where working people get the least possible consideration, public transport, jobs, wages, etc.). 🙆‍♀️c

[@jacquelinebutler6054]

I got a tree at Lowes for .25¢ that they were throwing away. Now it is a big beautiful tree in my yard

[@kristenkincak8884]

I always buy the ones that need saved ❤

[@gabrielareyesaviles1362]

I collect airplants from trees in my neighborhood. I love them!

[@CarlaQuattlebaum]

That's the way to get it for free! Those little Tillandsia plants are pretty expensive in the garden centers, maybe it's the glass globe they're in, but I've seen those growing off of trees, too. Might snag one for myself the next time I see one.

[@LauraMarie_LUV1ANO]

I collect seeds where I walk, it is the best way to get plants! When I see volunteers in my yard I love it.... I agree with my own collection I spread the love throughout my yard and my home 😊

[@obornyi2407]

What i like to do is to make notices, for example at local stores or websites for trading and then trade your cuttings, offshoots, seeds etc. with the ones from people in your neighborhood

[@FreePlantsForever]

FAntastic idea!

[@pattimessenger6214]

Thank you for these videos! I started proplifting because of your videos! I used to take every loos leaf I found, but now I’m getting more selective. I don’t take leaves from plants that I already have plenty of. Only plants that are unique and I don’t already have. I always ask. I carry a ziplock baggie in my purse for them. And, I always ask permission. I also buy plants from them. Usually my local Home Depot. I’m hoping that in Spring, they will introduce new varieties. Then I can start again. Happy New Year!

[@FreePlantsForever]

Yes! I've had to start being selective too... running out of room! I'm actually planning on helping organize a plant swap so that I can give away a lot of my duplicates.

[@TashasTattoos]

I've got another way at the stores- seeds! At the end of the season, many flower heads turn into seeds (marigolds, petunias etc) once the flower fades. I have collected so many old dead flower heads and this year I had amazing germination with the petunia seeds!

[@deborahthompson5041]

Thank you for the zip lock bag information.

[@candicecassel1110]

I’ve also rescued plants from neighbors that are moving and left them out on trash day. Also they can’t be bothered taking the plant to their new home. As a plant lover I’ve seen plants at stores that are pitiful looking and asked for a discount. I got a 5’ Dracena at IKEA…it was the last one…and the top 12 inches was at a 90degree angle. I got it for $3.00👍👍👍. I still have it. Yes it straightened itself.

[@FreePlantsForever]

I love that!

[@DraMaWms]

This video is a golden nugget for sure. My mom would always share her plants with friends. ❤

[@OohpreddynailsAngie]

I did my first proplift today at Home Depot. I bought some plants and other items too but I must admit the proplifting was the most exciting part! 😅 Thanks for the tip!!!

[@funkblack]

I stole some cuttings from the big stores. I got 3 succulents propagated from leaf, 1 lemon cutting I grafted on my seed grown lemon, one kumquat cutting I propagated in soil, mint.

[@laurentallman2918]

Curious, did you ask anyone?

[@trishalewisatphoenixfarm5495]

Home Depot puts neonicoids in the soil - kills the bad bugs - but also the bees for a full 2 years before it breaks down - be careful if you are buying flowers for bees - you are actually killing them

[@xtonibx5770]

​@@laurentallman2918To take scraps that would go in the garbage?

[@happytraveler5962]

Hahaha😂😂😂

[@buckyboy000]

You're such a pleasure to listen to. These free plant ideas are great, and obviously done responsibly. Thank you for all of your insightful and educational videos. Every time I move, I say goodbye to all my outside babies and trees, because they feel like a part of me. And if I can't take all of my potted plants with me, I make sure they go to good homes.

[@FreePlantsForever]

It's always hard to move and say goodbye to plants you've taken care of - making sure they go to good homes feels really important. I had to do the same when I moved from abroad - another reason not to spend too much money on plants!

[@cmbooks2000]

So many of my "new" plants are from seed and snipping. Did not know I could profligate my fiddle leaf. Great channel. Great tips. Thank you

[@danbev8542]

Local plant swap! Make friends with your neighbors. Other gardeners LOVE giving garden tours and sharing plants! My best plants are gotten this way. The plants you admire in your neighbor’s garden is already thriving in your same climate.

[@ibkristykat]

I subbed and this is my first vid of yours I have seen! I NEED to start doing this plus learning how to germinate things- seeds, leaves, branches etc. Thank you for the content!!!!!

[@laquishamckinnie7294]

Thanks for this, so glad I found your channel! I never would've thought of these ideas to get free plants! It makes so much sense though. I'm new to the plant world, never had a green thumb but I just got my first Yucca (hardy plant, so hard for me to kill lol) and my first Dumb Cane. Thank you so much!!

[@julieharris8188]

TY for all your great ideas. I’m just starting to get back into having plants again after several years. You are so encouraging & enthusiastic! I’ll now be looking around for new-to-me plant opportunities 🥰

[@FreePlantsForever]

Yay, there are lots of opportunities for plants, just got to keep looking!

[@rimacoates6532]

Greetings from Alberta Edmonton! I do this as well. I love my local Home Depot garden centre, and anytime I've asked, they were ok with me taking the 'dropped' or discarded leaves.

[@T.R.Y.1313]

Blessed to live in you area (west coast). TONS on exotic plants everywhere!

[@laurenpiantino8312]

I've done all of those things to fill my yard or for fillers; and, I've even asked store managers if I can take a couple of Cuttings from their yard garden/car park decor. I've never yet been refused; it's all in the respectful way you ask, and even better if you can assure the store manager, from their questions (most don't ask, or are amused), that you know what you're talking about when discussing plants.

[@carolchidlow4798]

Just found your channel and I LOVE IT!! If it's free, it's for me. As far as garden centers go, my Lowe's and Home Depot love getting rid of leaves that break off, parts of plants that just crack and fall off the mother plant. If more people did what you do, the garden centers would be a lot neater. Next time I go in my Lowe's I'm going to look for fallen, broken leaves and plants. I may have to remind them of the 20 bags of mulch I bought a few weeks ago for my newly designed flower bed. I particularly liked the clearance plant you got in your other video. I never thought that even though you may have to nurse a plant back to health, look at the gorgeous pot you got. Please, please keep up the great videos. At 76 I'm always looking for bargains and free stuff.

[@FreePlantsForever]

So glad you found my channel, happy to have you here! Wishing you luck in helping clean up at Lowe's 😁

[@perdiddlepanskew8018]

We have squirrel and burgeoning creeping bell flower this year, so I am avoiding spending much on plants as either I or the squirrels will perhaps be pulling everything up after it blooms. However, in a self-pitying run through Home Depot I found a rack of clearance plants - $3 for gallon hostas and gardilia (sp). They were so helpful and pointed out cheap pepper plants covered in blooms, so my despair was assuaged. That $10 was well-spent!

[@kelammo]

And these days, with the cost of soil, gravel, moss, vermiculite, orchid bark, coconut core, leche- free plants are the only way to go. Plus the ridiculous price of pots.

[@meaganarnold6587]

We just got free plants from Home Depot today. The vendor was there pulling old/dry plants. He let my son pick out what he wanted to take home. ❤️

[@RVBadlands2015]

Glad I found your channel. I get free plant all the time the same way. The leaf’s on the ground at Home Depot and Lowe’s just go in the trash.

[@yvonnesmith2578]

So happy I found your channel & subscribed !😊

[@Worthi_Creations]

This was so helpful!! Thank you so much! ❤

[@fur007fur]

I believe you. I do the same thing my husband tells me to stop but I'm learning how to grow them some fall at the store we was at Walmart and the lady told me to take it. Walmart won't regrow them 😊

[@robertkellyfisher]

Thank you so much 😊 I look forward to seeing more

[@deborahthompson5041]

Fantastic tips. Thank you so very much. I am giving my backyard a makeover and I want to have a small garden. I will look around from now on.

[@elizabethmccammon5308]

I found two sprigs of Wandering Jew in the parking lot of Lowes - not near the store at all- took them home and they have just taken off. It’s amazing what you can find on the ground.

[@lavonX1]

Great information!! I learned from my grandmother about some plants, spider and inchplant, to propagate with clippings ... it works perfect... enjoyed your video...😊

[@StorytellingHeadshots]

What a genius idea for a You Tube Channel. ❤️ I love this!

[@mnorris916]

Nice video. Very informative. Any negative comments is because they are just jealous of your creativity and the time you have to do this.

[@user-km4rk5sg5c]

I can remember going into restaurants who had hanging plants and asking if I could have a stem. I was never refused. Of course, I never took a stem that would leave a hole. But that was back in the 70s when I was young. Now I just buy them. I will have to look around and see if I can pick them up.

[@Mystrenghtisinyourpresence]

I found a broken leaf at Home Depot on the floor , not in the pot , I took it , it’s doing beautifully . ❤

[@ronniex8994]

Excellent video! Thank you so much for sharing! I just started my plant journey and this help so much! ❤

[@FreePlantsForever]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Till0629]

My mom saw a piece of Wandering Jew plant in the trash bin at Meijer. She asked an associate if she could have it and they obliged. The plant is gorgeous. Also, I've asked ppl at Home Depot and Lowes if i could have the plants that were 99% dead. My flower beds are full of those dying plants that are now thriving.

[@kelammo]

I’ve been looking & I can’t find one locally. Well, I found 2, but they were full of what I think are thrips- so that was a bust.

[@Gigi4LLE]

I am from Santa Barbara and my grandmother’s yard and house as full of these kind of free plants. I have gotten most of mine from gifts or family and friends plants. Community is the best

[@mikeconklin1567]

Thanks for your great advice.

[@jacquig1939]

Appreciate you saying ask first. I had a purple rose that someone once helped themselves to cuttings. they cut it too far and it didn't make it through the winter. Never knew who did it.

[@mommat5101]

Love this. And I agree, it's not stealing if you know it's headed to the trash.

[@kelammo]

We waste so much in this country. Food at stores/restaurants, clothing, good bags of expensive dog food, entire sets of golf clubs- it’s insane. I don’t get why they don’t just discount it or give it away? Reduce what we send to the landfill and give people/pets things they might need. Seems a win/win to me. They’ll still write it off on their taxes- they lose nothing.

[@dwightcorbett8889]

Great, informative video, some of these tips I'm already employing, the others are also good suggestions. I live on a limited budget and always looking to save a few dollars where ever I can. I bough a boat lily (Moses in the cradle) 2 years ago; between stem cuttings taken directly from it and then taking cuttings from the cuttings, I now have over 30!

[@barbarasmith3967]

Wow… you must live in a cool city. Gorgeous plants.

[@emmacarlsen2651]

Farmer's markets are a great place to get small starter plants for very cheap. Many growers will only charge $1-$3 per plant and if you repeatedly buy from them, they are often generous. I've gotten several plants completely free this way.

[@robertsnearly3823]

Just found your channel today. Bless you for covering this. I've done it for years with some detriment only to myself. TOO DARN MANY PLANTS! But I keep doing it and giving plants away. Thank you. ❤😊

[@royfaulkner5886]

In Maine, most of the stores that are like Walmart home Depot Lowe's they all have plants in the spring and they have no problem as long as it's on the floor and not going to be used if you take it. I always ask. And when I say proplifting all on meaning is I'm taking props that won't be used, lifting them and bringing them home and making something out of them that otherwise would be thrown away. So, yes I am a proud proplifter!!

[@jayneroe4921]

I like you. Easy going, you don’t talk ,talk ,talk, until I turn away. Goof info, and most relaxing viewing. Thank you.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Awww... thank you! 🥰

[@brendamaun5455]

A friend just told me she needed some shade loving plants to keep the kids from riding their bikes across her lawn. I dug out eight huge pots of hosta, spiderwort, and sedum for her to create that perennial barrier she was hoping for.

[@christinaevilsizer4929]

I started my large collection of purslane plants from plants I found growing on my walks around the neighborhood! I find a lot of wild onions and such also!❤

[@FreePlantsForever]

That is awesome!

[@tipp8076]

Great information! Thank you

[@TheGnomequeen1980]

I've made friends with the folks at a local garden center. I have seen them using leaves and cuttings to start more plants, but they will always give me a prop if I spend a little time geeking out about a certain plant with them. It probably doesn't hurt that I drop plenty of money on other plants and supplies there lol.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Yes, exactly. It definitely helps to cultivate friendships with other plant lovers and plant professionals!

[@roundhousekickgirl4512]

I always taken broken pieces from my local, family owned nursery and they could care less. Told me it helps them out by not having to pick it up themselves and toss it.

[@violetpaints]

For stuff on the ground, stores like Walmart and grocery stores get racks of plants for special occasions like easter, mother's day...well we don't even water them, let alone pick up broken pieces, so yeah these places are great for getting cuttings. I work in such a store and I picked up and rooted 3 kinds of miniature roses, various succulents and different vin-like plants, recently I even picked up a venus fly trap that was knocked out of a container. The pot and wrapper go in the "losses" bin but the plants go in the garbage/compost. Towards the end of the sale the plants looks sad and thirsty, no one buys them, they all go in the garbage, but you can talk to a manager and ask for a deal. You can get alot of stuff for practically nothing.

[@editfazekas3854]

This is some really smart salvaging!

[@FreePlantsForever]

Always on the lookout!!

[@col_gardening]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. I haven’t read the controversy comments on the other video but you really couldn’t be clearer about what you mean by ‘proplifting’. I mean is it even proplifting at a big chain like Home Depot (or Bunnings here in Australia) where as you say it’s all gonna get swept into the bin? Be fun to see a tour of your free plants.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Yes, I couldn't agree more 😄 I'm actually planning on filming a little tour in the next week or so, so glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@untangled99]

My grandmother loved her plants, from the African Violets to those little plants with pink flowers that surrounded her home, she never went anywhere without her plastic bag with the damp tissue and her tiny little embroidery scissors. God i miss her.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Such a sweet memory, thanks for sharing! 💚

[@victoriastroud4820]

When you mentioned driving around looking for plants and your family laughing at you, that reminded me of how my mom would always stop after picking me up from school and grab seed pods from the side of the road and i would give her a hard time lol. She'd also grab seed pods from zoos and other outdoor gardens and she'd make me put them in my purse 😂

[@FreePlantsForever]

Haha! I think I actually learned this trick from my Grandma... after I started this channel my mom said "you started doing that with your grandma 30 years ago!" I totally embarrass my family, but now my own kids run up to me and stick leaves they found in my bag. I must have trained them well. 😅

[@edwardpaisley9063]

I've known several people who were moving or even college students leaving college who treated their plants like pets but couldn't take the plant with them but wanted their plants to go to a "good home" and gave great plants away. I have also been in Home Depot and noticed many succulents that suffered root rot. (I have bought several plants from there.) I asked the woman who tended the plants if they shouldn't be in the "sale" section or if I could get them at a discount. She said sure 50 cents. I said I would take several (4 or 5). She said 50 cents for all of them. We went to the counter and they didn't know how to ring them up so they gave them to me with a $0.00 rec't. Unfortunately, I ended up trying to propagate so many that many did not survive and I felt sorry I got so many...

[@lauriehutchison449]

Where I live, our library has a connection to a Seed Library (as well as a Tool Library!). Seeds can be donated as well as taken.

[@FreePlantsForever]

That is amazing! And great tip.

[@PVJSLJ]

You can't imagine how many people will take dormant plants to the local dumpsters in the fall thinking they are dead. I get a TON of ferns this way.

[@gblyndensrandomreviews]

Very interesting suggestions!

[@michellechapman6839]

I'm taking pups from my cactus and making small arrangements and using propagations.

[@Denise_B17]

I get free plants from an ace hardware store, a local store that sells everything including plants. All by leaves on the ground. I ask all the time before taking. I love free plants. Btw just subscribed to your channel.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Yes! Ace is one of my favorite places to shop. Glad to find a fellow free plant lover.

[@susanb4816]

I like air layering for free trees and woody plants. Takes permission and time but works a treat

[@MaryIBEW]

So glad this popped up on my KZbin. My girlfriend use to take a baggie with a wet napkin, when she went out for her cuttings. LOL

[@GamesWithSyd]

We got a BUNCH of mint from a local community garden we were cleaning up, it had grown out of the bed, we also thinned the bed to make room for more growth.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Mint propagates so easily!💚Just be sure to keep it contained 😳

[@MrGrombie]

Just because it’s broken, doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve a good home.

[@dogmom2023]

When I am plant shopping vegetables are other I always look in the pots for more than one plant in that pot. Just this past weekend I got six extra tomato and pepper plants because I bought the pots that had two plants in them.

[@emmaplaysgreen2849]

I'm only a beginner indoor plant keeper but, in the last few years, I've managed to give away some orchid kikis that I successfully potted up and significantly increase my succulent collection by propagating the leaves that fall off my own plants! I'm not completely confident yet with what I'm doing but it's getting there. I also have to regularly chop and prop my echevaria due to etiolation. I have just chopped and propped my rather unruly Monstera Deliciosa for the first time and I'm hoping that also goes well! While it's not free, but instead very cheap, I've had some real bargains from my local Lidl as they will sell off, for €1, any plants that didn't get sold during the current plant promotion. I also look on the 'scruffy and battered' reduced to clear shelf at my local garden centre. This has lead to me buying some plants that I'm unfamiliar with and breaking out of my comfort zone! It's a fun way to experiment. I'm definitely going to check for fallen leaves next time that I visit though :-)

[@caroleneuok5890]

All great ideas.

[@deborahklinlger8565]

Great tips 👌.

[@npeace312]

My DMV had marigolds so I dead headed a ton and have loads of seeds. I love it!

[@Lsharp416]

I always save the broken plants we’re giving them new life instead of letting them die ❤

[@GingerNinja1]

If you find a plant near death at Walmart 9/10 they'll let yoy have it when asked or they'll heavily discount it. My m.i.l. is the plant discount queen there. 😂 We asked awhile back at Home Depot & they were fine with us taking leaves off the ground. Buy a rooting hormone & voila! Beautiful plant.

[@Michelle_Emm]

I have an extensive garden and love growing plants from cuttings which I then give away. I just leave them out the front of my house, people take a plant and leave me an empty pot. Everyone knows me as the plant lady. Lol

[@karinbrooks344]

Awesome Information!

[@grettalemabouchou6779]

Such good will.❤

[@rachellee.9389]

LOL, I was just at Home Depot today getting about half a dozen veggie plants for the summer. I went by the succulents area as I always do on the few occasions that I go to Home Depot, looking for fallen leaves. Only saw one and it's now at my house sitting in some dirt. Hopefully, it will grow some roots/babies. Do I consider it stealing? Hell, no! It's my version of doing their clean-up maintenance in exchange for the dropped leaves and stems.

[@FreePlantsForever]

My feelings exactly, Home Depot aren't going to propagate and re-sell those leaves. You're good!

[@she_greene]

Great video 💚

[@MommaKnowsBestest]

Love this.

[@JJ-ec9lp]

I proplift the trash broken pieces at garden centers too. If there’s a really sad clearance plant that I dont think will sell, sometimes I DO even break off a piece to take with me. Most of those propagations fail because the plant was dying and didn’t have enough energy but I have one or two BEAUTIFUL plants in my collection now that originally came from a node I ripped off a dying lowes clearance plant. If I’m fairly sure it will become trash, I take it.

[@FVWhimsy2010]

Someone helped themselves to a large chunk of my beautiful bottle brush bush...in the process they seriously damaged the bush. Always ask people before helping yourself to parts of someone else's plants. I would have readily given them as much cuttings as they want, but it is done at the time the plants are pruned.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Ugh, so sorry to hear that, not a neighborly thing to do at all. I agree, always always ask! Most people are happy to share.

[@pitdawg6418]

And the damage was done cause of IDIOTS like these that want EVERYTHING FREE and could care less the damage they do

[@darlynedahn4542]

Thank you. I would be very happy to have some of your plants

[@someonerandom8129]

I really like you. I really like the way you get a direction and your information and your voice is very calm and soothing. Thank you for being here and helping me learn more about plants. They are so good for our mental health.

[@FreePlantsForever]

Awww… thank you so much! 🥰

[@pandalover3556]

I’m having 3 windows being replaced in 2 weeks and I have to clear out my aeoniums and jade plants. Thinking of putting them up in my etsy shop and/or just putting a free sign in front of my house.