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He carefully packages each one — golden pothos, string of hearts, trailing hoya — with a small team of employees, slaps on a bright sticker that reads “live plants,” and ships them across the country.

In addition to glossy, sometimes multicolored leaves, hoyas produce waxy starlike blooms.

Her cheerfully decorated shop specializes in curated houseplants from flowering hibiscus to leafy hoyas and ficus, as well as gifts for the home and garden.

Year-round residents include hoyas and Syngonium, but she gives her cacti and succulents a winter vacation there to counteract the dark winters.

Low-maintenance pothos, succulents and hoyas hang from the rafters of the curved metal ceiling.