Bree Clarke just wanted to support a local plant shop. Specifically, one owned by a person of color. What she found instead was that in the entire city of Dallas, she says, there were zero plant shops owned by Black women. For Clarke, that needed to change. Her new shop, The Plant Project, located in Uptown, is the first Black-owned shop of its kind and has garnered attention and support on Twitter, with users urging others to shop at a minority-owned establishment.
There are other Black-owned plant shops in North Texas — Energy Gardens started before The Plant Project, though it's more of a pop-up and delivery-based. There's also New Growth Plants in Carrollton, though Clarke's is the only plant shop in Dallas that's Black-owned.