Everybody starts somewhere. One plant, one question, one person willing to answer it.
This is where you find the rest of us — the shows, sales, expos, and meetings, gathered state by state and verified before we list them.
Come find your people.
No verified listings here yet. We only publish events we have checked against the organizer directly. Know one we are missing? Send it over.
Submit a listing.
Running a show, a swap, a society sale, or an open house? Send it over and we will verify it and put it up. Free, always — no vendor fee, no sponsorship, no pay-to-rank. This directory stays useful because collectors can help us find verified events.
Shopping only? Collectors Club is the separate private purchase account with 15% member savings. It never creates a Rooted profile.
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The Directory
The people who grow them.
Somebody grew every plant in your collection. Cultured it, acclimated it, packed it with care, and sent it off hoping it would land somewhere good.
Most of these are small operations — people doing slow, patient work because they love the plants. Listed because they earned it. Nobody pays to be on this page, and nobody ever will.
Botanical gardens with tropical collections. Plant societies and their meeting schedules. Regional nurseries by specialty.
We are building this one verified listing at a time. Slower than scraping, and worth more — because this community deserves to be gotten right.
ROOTED. Plant Travel.
The Directory
Plan a trip.
Every verified event and every shop with a public address, on one map. Set where you are starting from and it sorts by what is closest — add an ending point and it keeps only what is genuinely on the way.
Quick starts
Starting point
Ending point — optional
Plan around an event
Sort
Show on map
Event type
Use two fingers to move the map
Event Shop or grower Start Destination
Nothing in range with those filters. Widen the distance or clear an event type.
ROOTED. Plant Travel.
Rooted Trip Intelligence
Smart Trip Builder
Tell Rooted how you like to collect. It will shape your existing event trip around real driving time and curated tropical collector stops.
Build or select your event itinerary, then let Rooted evaluate the trip around your collector priorities.
Tissue culture recommendations are intentionally off. Rooted uses only curated collector categories already included in the community map.
Rooted Smart Route
Collector Route Refiner
Rooted can choose the strongest low-detour collector stops around the trip you already built. Event order stays protected.
Tropical curated
No generic garden centers. No tissue cultures. Suggestions are limited to Rooted’s current tropical collector categories.
Plant Travel.