Take a deep breath. Grow at your own pace.

Plant Practice helps people create spaces that feel alive — full of color, texture, and joy through the thoughtful use of plants.

We collaborate with clients to design, style, install, and care for plants that fit your lifestyle. Whether handling every detail or guiding you to develop your own green thumb, our approach is rooted in learning and growth — because, like yoga or piano, you can practice plants, too.

Houseplants and potted plants are our speciality, but Katy brings a wealth of education and experience working with Texas natives and adapted plants for outdoor landscapes, too. We also partner with a local landscape designer for bigger, more intricate installs.

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A Louise Fuchs orchid bloom stuns in deep, beet juice shades of purply-pink.
A client’s prized plant, the Louise Fuchs orchid (a myrmeocattleya hybrid), blooms for the first time in 15+ years.
Pot filled with brightly colored and variously textured flowers and plants.
This early fall refresh includes fragrant stock and snapdragons – great cut flowers for bouquets! – alongside ornamental cabbage and herbs, in irrigated pots.

Services

Every Plant Practice partnership starts with an in person consultation, always free of charge. We’ll discuss your goals, tour the space you want to transform, say nice things to your current plants, and talk through your lifestyle – ie how much time do you want to devote, or not, to keeping plants. I will answer all your questions, whether you have two or 14 bazillion.

From there we’ll work together to figure out the next best steps. This could mean:
– we meet at a plant nursery to choose plants that will do well in your space and under your care
– you run with the information I shared and make your existing plants shine
– I do everything for you: pot and plant selection, install, and ongoing maintenance

Ongoing maintenance is offered on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly schedule. We can also do a quarterly check-in to make sure all lovelies under your personal care continue to thrive. All installs include a complimentary follow-up at 3 weeks to make sure everything is doing well.

All services, including nursery tours, ongoing maintenance, and quarterly check-ins, are billed at $65/hour. Materials and plants cost vary based on the project. Plant Practice is a boutique service, and I don’t keep a large book of clients. I’m here to give your plants the same level of love and attention I give my own.

Schedule your free 1-hour consultation
Quick question? Schedule a 15-min phone chat
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Gallery

A begonia maculata, grown hydroponically, and a gollum jade.
A begonia maculata, grown hydroponically, and a gollum jade, thriving in a south-facing window.
Blue star fern on a black accent table with a cowboy hat in the foreground.
This large blue star fern is rocking in a low light corner thanks to an unobtrusive grow light providing supplemental lighting.
Early fall seasonal refresh with ornamental pumpkins and pots full of native perennials and herbs (to keep away the deer and rabbits!)
A re-design to train a client’s trailing plant for upward growth along a honeycomb trellis (grow cabinet in the background)
A dainty ceramic planter with a winsome face, eyes closed and small hands at its cheeks. There is a striped green & white plant growing like hair from the top of the planter.
Spider plant loving life in an adorable ceramic planter.
A variety of tropicals, ferns, and a variegated peace lily with this client’s beloved Chilean block print (notice that not all of these plants are in “perfect” condition – and that’s FINE!)
A relatively young king anthurium, growing strong under supplemental light in my custom soilless aroid mix
These tropicals are thriving in a corner adjacent to a south-facing window with supplemental lighting and a humidifier on the floor. The client wanted to show off the handmade East African basket, which now houses a water-grown philodendron in a glass jar.
In ground landscaping is not our bread & butter, but this client wanted a small, native planted bed adjacent to their backyard seating area – so sure, why not?

About

Katy kneels beneath a giant staghorn fern hanging from a tree branch.
Katy marvels under a massive staghorn fern in the Zilker Botanical Gardens.

Hello! My name is Katy, and Plant Practice is my boutique plant care company. I live in SouthSouth Austin with my husband and teenage son, two cats, 11 chickens, a bunch of fish, and 150+ plants.

I grew up on wooded acreage in rural Kentucky, climbing trees, collecting cicada shells, and playing in the forest until dinnertime (often later, sorry Momma). I learned early how to bait my own hook, ate tomatoes straight off the vine, and always marveled at my Mammy’s flower gardens. I had no idea that the mushrooms we picked by the bag full cost $100/lb in the fancy grocery stores of my adulthood – but I loved tramping through the damp woods in search of buttery magic.

Life has taken me down various paths since those idyllic childhood days, but my love of the natural world has never left me. Whether it was a balcony pot of bougainvillea at my first apartment or keeping flower stems in a butterfly habitat when my son was young, plants have always been a source of wonder and excitement.

Over more than two decades, I’ve killed more plants than I can remember – so you don’t have to! I will help you skip the mistakes I made. I’ve gone through the full Travis County Master Gardener course, and attend numerous workshops and classes as a member of the Native Plant Society of Texas – I’ve learned a lot and I’m still learning!

Practice > perfection. I’m here to give you the knowledge and confidence to jumpstart your own project, or take full charge with start to finish design and ongoing maintenance. Let’s practice plants!