🌿 About Veryplants

Veryplants is an indoor-plant company built around one observation: the soil that works in a garden does not work in a pot. We make soilless potting mixes engineered for the specific needs of tropical plants, orchids, and succulents grown indoors. The Molly's line is the heart of what we make.

At a glance. Founded 2020 in Montreal · Pivoted full-time to soilless potting mixes January 2023 · Three product lines (Aroid, Orchid, Succulent) sold across the US and Canada · Available online at veryplants.com and veryplants.ca and through retail partners across both countries.

Our mission

To help anyone, from beginner to collector, grow healthy houseplants by giving them potting media designed for the way indoor plants actually live. Most plant deaths come down to substrate. We make it our job to fix that.

Our backstory

We started in 2020 as a rare-tropicals shop. Customers kept telling us the same thing: they could find the plants, but they could not keep them alive. Standard potting soil — the stuff sold in every garden center — compacts in containers, traps moisture, and invites root rot. We started recommending homemade soilless blends to customers, then started making them in batches, then started selling them. By January 2023, the mixes had become the business. We pivoted entirely.

Today the catalog is three core blends — Molly's Aroid Mix, Molly's Orchid Mix, and Molly's Succulent Mix — each tuned for the specific drainage, aeration, and moisture profile of its plant family.

How we formulate

Molly's mixes are not generic potting soil with a brand label. Each blend went through a documented development process that we still apply to every new product:

  1. Identify the plant family's substrate profile. Aroids climb in tropical forests through decomposing leaf litter and bark. Orchids are epiphytes that grip exposed tree bark. Succulents are desert-adapted and cannot tolerate sustained moisture. Each family needs a different ratio of moisture retention, drainage, and aeration.
  2. Source ingredients to a written specification. Sphagnum peat moss, coconut coir, fir bark, perlite, pumice, charcoal, and worm castings are sourced from suppliers screened on consistency, particle size, pH, and contamination. We rotate spot tests on incoming batches.
  3. Trial recipes against real plants, not just bench tests. We test new formulations on hundreds of plants in our shop and our collaborators' grow rooms over multiple seasons before any blend goes commercial.
  4. Independent lab verification. Production batches are independently lab-tested for pH and consistency. We do not ship a blend that drifts from the published specification.
  5. Listen to the plant community. Real-world feedback from growers, hobbyists, and retail partners shapes ongoing recipe adjustments. The April 2026 reformulation of Molly's Succulent Mix came directly from grower feedback on the previous version's drainage profile.

What we have done

  • Imported, propagated, and sold thousands of tropical plants and succulents through our online shop in the years before pivoting to mixes.
  • Tested dozens of potting mixes from big-box stores and boutique brands to understand what was already on the market and where it failed.
  • Consulted with horticultural scientists, professional growers, and serious hobbyists during formulation.
  • Trialled hundreds of ingredient ratios — adjusting textures, particle sizes, microbial blends, and pH targets — before settling on the production recipes.
  • Built a retail partner network across the US and Canada, with stockists ranging from independent garden centers to specialty plant boutiques.
  • Translated our care guides into French and Spanish to serve plant communities in Quebec, Mexico, Spain, and the broader Latin American market.

Quality and trust

Every Molly's blend is independently lab-tested for pH and ingredient consistency, supplier-screened for incoming material quality, and field-verified across multiple grower trials before it ships. We publish the ingredient list openly on every product page. We do not include synthetic fertilizer pellets, so you control feeding separately and your plants do not get a one-size-fits-all dose.

We are based in Montreal, Quebec, and ship from fulfillment partners across North America. US orders ship from a US warehouse; Canadian orders ship from Canada. Free shipping on Canadian orders over $100 CAD.

Where to buy

Direct from us at veryplants.com (US) and veryplants.ca (Canada). Locally through our retail partners — find a stockist near you with our store locator. Wholesale inquiries through our wholesale program.

Get in touch

Questions, feedback, or grower stories? We read every email. Reach us at info@veryplants.com.

Warmly,
The Veryplants team