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Hey Plant Folks! It has been a while since I made a blog post. 2024 was a rough year for me personally and for the business as well. I lost my grandma, my two cats (an 18 and a 15-year-old) and a few other loved ones all in a span of a few months around the end of 2024. As for the business, the plant crash affected a lot of us greatly. With the ballooning of the prices and the sheer number of new plant sellers it was bound to happen. We tried to prepare for it, but it was...

Hi Plant Folks, Thank you for still visiting this website and reading my blog posts. 2023 has been quite a promising start. We managed to survive the aroid market crash. Its somehow almost equivalent to a crypto crash. A lot of seller I know who were hoarding what was once trending plants, had a hard time selling them and recuperating their losses. I honestly felt really bad for them. I am so lucky I did not hop on the trends and only made small aroid purchases towards the end of 2022.  Despite all that, I do think 2023 is a...

November and December are crucial times for small businesses like me. It's our one last deciding factor to know whether your business this year is a success, work in progress or it's time to move it back to hobby. Since we started in late 2018. We've had close to 60 or so competition. We've also had bigger establishments switching to model after us and the way we navigate which is via community. Honestly when we started booming in 2019, I was unsure how to exercise my role in the plant community. I was at that time and till now, have...

Hey Plant Folks! For those who have followed us, we did a secret market stall back in October last year named Pasarplant. We even made an Instagram for it! It was situated in Jalan Batu market. It was a vibrant and quaint market space. The neighbours were so loving and kind.  We decided to do it open it quietly and only associated with Littlebotany later on. We wanted it to start organically and find its own footing without Littlebotany's influence.  The market stall was made for a purpose. One was to bridge the older folks into the hobby and second,...

Hey Plant folks, Most of you know by now, Punggol has officially closed and has moved to our new East space at Sing See Soon Simei. It has been a crazy journey.  The move was unexpected as we thought we had a further two years with the Punggol space. Initially I was very overwhelmed and was so worried. I was also not in a good place financially as we just invested Littlebotany West and Punggol was still the main income at that point of time. So when Punggol ended almost abruptly, it was quite a big adjustment for me and...