Originally sent 23 October 2026. This is an archive of that newsletter; product prices and availability were accurate at the time of sending and may have changed.
One week until Floresta
Hello from the greenhouse.
Floresta is now only one week away, and the preparation here is becoming much more practical: choosing the plants that are ready to travel, checking every specimen carefully and working out how to present everything within the Urban Jungle Sydney stand.
This is my final Greenhouse Notes before the event. Below is the information you will need if you are planning to visit, together with a preview of what I am preparing to bring and one unusual growing system I have been experimenting with.
Find Urban Jungle Sydney at Floresta
Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November 2026
Paddington Town Hall
249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW
Urban Jungle Sydney will be part of this two-day collector plant market alongside specialist growers, makers and plant collectors from around Australia. I will add the final stand position when the organiser releases the map.
What I was preparing to bring
I am still making the final selection because I only want to bring plants that are ready to leave the greenhouse and settle into a new collection. The group will include accessible favourites alongside a smaller number of unusual collector specimens.
- Collector aroids — A smaller selection of distinctive plants for established collections.
- Accessible favourites — Well-grown plants for people beginning or building a collection.
- Air plants — Different Tillandsia forms, textures and growth habits.
- Growing essentials — Practical items selected for healthy roots and reliable growth.
The exact plant list will follow my final physical inspection before the event.
Growing without a conventional pot
The Tevaplanter turns the outside of the planter into the growing surface. Water is stored inside its porous ceramic body and gradually moves through to the exterior, where suitable mosses, ferns, orchids and small epiphytic or trailing plants can attach and grow.
What interests me is not simply its appearance. It offers a different way to think about the balance between moisture and oxygen around the roots, particularly for plants that naturally grow against rock, bark and other exposed surfaces rather than in dense potting mix.
It still requires thoughtful plant selection and placement; it is not an automatic solution for every species. Used with the right plant, however, it can become a living display that changes as the roots and foliage establish across the ceramic surface.
The Tevaplanter was A$100 at the time of this newsletter. View its current listing.
See you in Paddington
If you are coming to Floresta, please stop by and say hello. I am looking forward to meeting more of the people who read these notes and to showing you some of the plants I have been growing here in Coogee.
I will share the final stand location as soon as the organiser confirms it.
Marc
Urban Jungle Sydney
