A native Houstonian grew tired of the lack of representation in the plant retail industry and decided to do something about it.
Bree Iman Clark is the founder of The Plant Project. It was the first Black-woman-owned plant shop in Dallas in 2020. The Montrose collective is the location of Clark’s third and newest shop.
Clark said she grew up watching her parents and grandparents cultivating their outdoor gardens but never saw people who looked like her owning their own plant shop. So, she wanted to fill that void.
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