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Edmonton, your next Monstera can come right to your door. 🌿

Albo, Thai Constellation and Standleyana Aurea are in stock now.
Treat yourself this

✅ Free local delivery on orders over $50
🚚 Under $50: $10 in Edmonton, $15 to Sherwood Park or St. Albert

Shop now: https://www.upwegrowtropicals.com

This is right around the corner! 😱

Make sure you stop by our booth and say HI!

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Here's a first look at what's coming with us to the Rare Tropical Plant Expo this weekend: variegated Monstera Albos, butter-yellow variegated Monstera standleyana 'Aurea', glossy variegated Alocasia sinuata, some stunning terrarium minis and pink-blushed Tillandsia capatata "Peach".

Whether you're a seasoned collector or picking out your first rare plant, come chat with us.
No plant-shaming, promise.

📅 Saturday, Sept 26 | 10 AM to 4 PM�📅 Sunday, Sept 27 | 10 AM to 3 PM
�📍 The Agora at Strathcona County Community Centre, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, AB

40+ vendors will have rare aroids, tropicals, accessories, handmade jewellery, art and baked treats, plus vendor giveaways, food concessions and underground parking.

See you there.
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The full vendor list has been released for next week's Rare Tropical Plant Expo.

Can't wait to see everyone there!
What's everyone hoping to score at the show?!?

🌿 THE COMPLETE 2026 RARE TROPICAL PLANT EXPO LINEUP 🌿

It’s official! This year’s Rare Tropical Plant Expo is bringing together businesses and exhibitors for one plant-filled weekend in Sherwood Park.

Here’s who you’ll meet:

🌱 42Doors
🌱 Artificial Ecosystems
🌱 Bridgette’s Garden
🌱 Calade Orchids and Tropicals
🌱 Chasing Chlorophyll
🌱 Chomp & Bloom
🌱 Equator Plants
🌱 Fanciplants
🌱 From Ground Up
🌱 From Lisa’s Garden
🌱 Funky Juice Bar
🌱 Gaias Glasswear
🌱 Greenful Living
🌱 JB Tropicals
🌱 Just Baked by Candy
🌱 Lace and Leaves Studio
🌱 LeafFilter Gutter Protection — Exhibitor
🌱 Linnaeus Borealis Studio
🌱 Planta Verde
🌱 Plant Positivity with Rowe
🌱 Plants and Glitters Inc.
🌱 Plants Collection
🌱 Pretty n’ Plants
🌱 Printed Petal
🌱 Redleaf Designs
🌱 Roots and Shoots Tropicals
🌱 SilvPlants
🌱 The Dark Side of Plants
🌱 The Eclectic Earthworm
🌱 The Garden Nook
🌱 The Green Grotto
🌱 Thorn and Thistle Tattoos
🌱 upwegrow
🌱 Urban Ivy Houseplants
🌱 VarieGold
🌱 Watering Tropical Fever

Shop rare and variegated tropicals, Anthuriums, Monsteras, Alocasias, Hoyas, orchids, carnivorous plants, terrariums, cacti and succulents.

You’ll also find growing supplies, beneficial bugs, botanical art, handmade jewelry, plant accessories, tattoos, baked treats and plenty of other surprises.

Many of our vendors are travelling from across Alberta, British Columbia and Ecuador to bring something special to Sherwood Park. Instead of visiting dozens of shops, or booking a flight, you can find them all under one roof. 😂

🎟️ GRAB YOUR TICKETS!

If you haven’t grabbed your tickets yet, now’s the time! Get your tickets in advance, invite your plant-shopping partner, bring your reusable bags and start working on that wish list.

🚗 PARKING INFORMATION

There is underground parking available at the Strathcona County Community Centre.
• First two hours are free.
• All-day parking on weekends and holidays is a $2 flat fee.
• You must register your license plate at a pay station every time you park, even if you’re staying for less than two hours.

📅 September 26–27, 2026
⏰ Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
⏰ Sunday: 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
📍 The Agora at Strathcona County Community Centre
🌿 Sherwood Park, Alberta

Tickets and show information:
www.yegaroidshow.ca

It's Monstera Monday! 🪴


This week we have a doozy of a looker to showcase.

Monstera standleyana - a truly unique member of the genus.

Unlike most other Monstera the standleyana doesn't get the distinctive fenestrations that the majority of the species in this genus produce as they reach maturity.

A vining and climbing species that is easy care and tolerant of a variety of conditions make it an excellent house plant for beginners and advanced keepers alike.

Available on the website for local pick-up or delivery. We might even have some with us at the upcoming rare plant expo - unless they are all snapped up before the 26th arrives. 😃

You’re probably more ready for an albo than you think.

The Monstera albo has a reputation for being fussy.
Mostly it isn’t.
It’s a Monstera with less chlorophyll to work with, so it wants brighter indirect light and a little more consistency than its all-green cousin.
Chunky mix, water when the top inch dries, never let it sit wet. That’s the list.

If you’ve been circling this plant for a while, we’ve got a few hand-picked ones in.

Edmonton pickup and local delivery only.
Link in bio.
Obsessed so you don’t have to be. 🌿

The upwegrow site is live again.

I'm not going to pretend this is a simple "we're back" post.
Yesterday I published the full story of why the Southgate store closed — the real numbers, what I got wrong, what it's cost me, and what comes next.

It's not a highlight reel.

If you walked through our door, came to an After Dark event, ordered a plant, or told a friend about us — I wrote it for you.
Link to read:
https://upwegrowtropicals.com/blogs/the-obsession-files/why-upwegrows-retail-store-closed-the-full-story

upwegrow isn't gone.
The store is.
The brand and the community aren't.

Online-first now, and the promise still stands: obsessed so you don't have to be.

We have something to share with our Edmonton community.

After three and a half incredible years, upwegrow will be closing its doors.
It has been the most rewarding, wild, plant-filled adventure — and every single one of you who walked through our doors, bought a weird frog, asked us to ID a mystery cutting, or just came in to enjoy the space made it worth every moment.

We want to go out the way we came in: with something worth getting excited about.

Introducing: The Final Unfurling.

Our last-ever plant order arrives Thursday and hits the floor Friday morning.
For three final days — May 28, 29, and 30 — everything in the shop is 50% off.
Rare aroids. Tropicals. Vivarium supplies. Apparel. All of it. The only exception is "As Is" items.

📅 Thursday May 28 | 11am – 5pm
📅 Friday May 29 | 11am – 5pm
📅 Saturday May 30 | 11am – 5pm
📍 #701 5015 111 St NW, Southgate Centre

Come say goodbye. Come find something beautiful. Come introduce yourself if you've been meaning to stop in and never did — there's still time.
We'll see you there. 🌿

Something we've been sitting with, and wanted to share with you directly.

Our retail location at Southgate Centre is closing its doors — and this weekend, we're holding The Letting Go Sale to send things off properly.

40% off all remaining inventory. Everything.
(Excluding "As Is" items)

Rare aroids, tropicals, vivarium and bioactive supplies, apparel.

Opening a shop was one of the most terrifying and rewarding things we've ever done. We got to talk plants with hundreds of people who actually get it. We watched total strangers become part of a community we're genuinely proud of.
That part? We're keeping that part.

upwegrow isn't going away — this is just a new chapter.
We'll share more on what that looks like soon.

But first — come say hi this weekend. Grab something you've been eyeing. And know that every single one of you who walked through that door (or ordered online, or sent a DM, or just cheered us on) made this whole thing worth it.

The Letting Go Sale
🗓 Saturday, May 23 | 11am – 5pm
🗓 Sunday, May 24 | 12pm – 4pm
📍 #701 5015 111 St NW, Southgate Centre
🔖 40% off everything in store (Excluding "As Is" items)

See you soon. 🌿