Celebrate The Bloomverse Expo, one of the first plant conventions of its kind in Arlington, from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at the St. Jude Event Center.
What started as a plant-obsessed hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic has sprouted into a free, 30 plus vendor plant celebration for the community, featuring rare and uncommon plants, a variety of homemade items and plant swaps.
The hobby began around late 2019, when Viridiana Robles, owner and founder of The Bloomverse Expo and Plants by Viridiana, decided she wanted to revamp her room. She bought a few plants, curious to see where it would take her, not knowing it would grow into something much larger.
“Fast forward now, I’ve been so obsessed with plants,” Robles said. “I was able to make it into a business full time.”
She has been hosting markets for the plant community for about three years now, and said Bloomverse is going to be a bigger version of these markets.
The venue will have beginner plants like snake plants, and more rare and uncommon plants like Monstera Albo.
“We have all sorts of people bringing different genuses,” she said. “Like genus Monstera, Hoya, Philodendron, Anthurium, everything that you can think of, we will have at the event.”
Along with the array of plants, the venue will also have an open concession stand and bar area for attendees to get food and drinks.
“We’re curating the space, making it inclusive [and] fun,” she said. “We’re keeping everybody in mind who loves plants.”
Robles said the lack of representation in the area is what sparked the creation of the event.
“I didn’t see that representation, so I took advantage of it and now I wanna have our own little convention, our own little nook in the event industry and see where that goes,” she said.
Bloomverse is a convention for plant lovers, she said, no matter the plant knowledge.
“If you love plants, this is a place for you to be,” Robles said. “Honestly, it’s truly like a little love letter to our local plant community here in the DFW area.”
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