Owner Yolanda Palmer's one-of-a-kind plant nursery in Chestnut Hill gives greenery life
A Philly ‘houseplant hotel’ gives greenery the spa treatment — and keeps them alive while you’re on vacation, past towering ferns, hanging ficuses, and monstera with leaves that look like Swiss cheese, to the 300-square-foot greenery hotel nestled in back of her
“I’ve always had lots of plants and lots of animals,” said Palmer, who charges $75 a week for her in-store plant-hoteling services and for plant-sitting at clients’ homes. “And when I traveled, I always wished I had someone to take care of them …” She worked as an accountant and billing coordinator at Public Health Management Corporation for 14 years where she became an expert in spreadsheets and balancing budgets. Palmer quit PHMC in 2019 to turn her hobby into a business and started selling plants at pop-ups. She needed a place to store her plants so she set up shop at Jerry’s Corner, a flea market in Southwest Philly selling plants three days a week.
Everything from the wrought iron gates that separate the rooms in Foliage, to the wine racks, has a leaf on it. Terrariums filled with multicolored sand and succulents line the window sills next to rows of teeny tiny plants Palmer is growing for party favors. Candles that smell like springtime and evergreens dot the store. Palmer walks through Foliage untangling hanging potted plants overflowing with dangling string of fishhooks. She stops to braid the long, skinny leaves of a snake plant.
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