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r/NativePlantGardening

A community for gardeners who are passionate about growing native plants. Rain gardens, pollinator gardens, xeriscaping, and forests alike! Founded 2020 · 261K members

262.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.9K upvotes, which works out to 61 per 1,000 members.

61peak upvotes per 1,000 members
262.8Kmembers
15.9Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
427posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

36% 32% 13% 10%
Gallery 36% Image 32% Text 13% Video 10% Question 5% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Photos 170 Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) 65 Progress 32 Other 21 Informational/Educational 21 Geographic Area (edit yourself) 16 Pollinators 11 Promotional Content 8 Edible Plants 5 Meme/sh*tpost 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Nick & I gave away 22 native plants to strangers

↑ 15.9K 💬 297 gallery 2025

Four years after moving into a blank canvas, we have achieved a pollinator paradise!

↑ 15.3K 💬 584 gallery 2025

I’m being forced to remove my native plants.

↑ 13.6K 💬 929 image 2025

Welp, my native garden at work has been destroyed.

↑ 12.4K 💬 648 gallery 2025

My native gardening journey.

↑ 12.3K 💬 356 gallery 2025

Anyone else have stacks of these in the garage or shed?

↑ 12.1K 💬 248 image 2026

Five years of guerrilla prairie restoration on a highway right-of-way in Chicago

↑ 9.7K 💬 263 gallery 2026

Thought I’d get pollinators with this garden, but this was unexpected.

↑ 9.6K 💬 120 gallery 2025

When I tell you guys I ran inside to show you all these butterflies I mean it!

↑ 8.9K 💬 302 video 2025

Update: I'm being forced to remove my native plants

↑ 8.7K 💬 168 text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/NativePlantGardening, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/NativePlantGardening?
r/NativePlantGardening describes itself this way: A community for gardeners who are passionate about growing native plants. Rain gardens, pollinator gardens, xeriscaping, and forests alike. It was founded in 2020 and has 261K members.
How many members does r/NativePlantGardening have?
r/NativePlantGardening has about 262.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 427 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.9K upvotes, which is 61 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NativePlantGardening?
"Nick & I gave away 22 native plants to strangers" reached 15.9K upvotes and 297 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NativePlantGardening.
What subreddits are similar to r/NativePlantGardening?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/NativePlantGardening?
Of the posts we hold, 36% are gallery posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NativePlantGardening?
Across 427 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 00:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 23:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/NativePlantGardening?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NativePlantGardening has 6.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 96 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NativePlantGardening, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.