The Athenian flower power

Anna Georgatou has an interesting story to tell about the creation of texas. “The idea started one afternoon when my daughters and I were sitting on the porch listening to Lou Reed. We were passing time looking at the balcony of the apartment building across us that was being renovated. The upper penthouse had some wonderful prickly pears. They were dismembering them and taking them down to the rubbish bins. We put on gloves and overalls and collected them all. We spread them on the roof, watched videos of plantations in Texas and reproduction methods and that’s how it all started. We made a small greenhouse and then another on the terrace and one thing led to another”. She believes that bringing plants home, we create small escape routes, as we realize that contact with nature is essential to our lives (@t_e_x_as). The selflessness in caring for a plant was the motivation for Olga Maneta and Giorgos Brinias to open a plant shop in the already existing cafe bar KINONÓ. So, I Do “sprouted” in order to meet the needs of anyone who wants to relax, to fill their house with green, with emotions, smells and memories from granny’s garden. “It’s difficult being a parent, but at least an azalea will never retort in adolescence, saying ‘you don’t understand me’” says George (@i_do_koukaki).

The need for a breath of nature led Maria Papadopoulou to create the colourful Yperalfeia in Petralona. Her connection with the land began when she was young, in her grandfather’s vineyard next to the Alfeios River, which led her to study agricultural technology and later to enter the world of flower arranging (@yperalfeia). Mother Nature dominates the four walls of the Mother Plants & Stuff store by Manos Tziaponis, who designed a tasteful space that resembles a small botanical garden in the center of Athens (@mother_athens). In closing, if you want to combine the purchase of a beautiful plant with your coffee, then the concept store Minu is your destination. Its space is not defined in one word, as, in addition to plants, it offers furniture, objects and works of art, hovering between functionality and design (@minu.athens).