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Plants

A place to share pictures and discuss growing, maintaining, and propagating houseplants and outdoor decorative plants.

560k subscribers1,949 posts / mo in Sep 20261,604 authors / mosince 2010

r/plants has 560k members (+14% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,949 posts a month from 1,604 people. Top topics: Favorite Plants, Plant ID & Care Tips and Pothos Varieties and Care.

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Size and growth

How r/plants has grown

r/plants

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+14%in 12 months · +2.1% in 3 months · +0.4% in 1 month
Oct 2026560k
Growing560k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/plants

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−56%vs Sep 2025 · −31% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.9k
QuieterPeaked at 5.5k in May 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/plants

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Favorite Plants1.0%
  2. Plant ID & Care Tips1.0%
  3. Pothos Varieties and Care0.9%
  4. Monstera Madness0.9%
  5. Plant Identification0.8%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Wolfram
  2. etsy
  3. Apple
  4. iNaturalist
  5. Almanac

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research