Photos from Crecer Dallas.

Is it a plant store? Is it the hairdresser? It’s both.

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Crecer Dallas is a Latinx/women-owned plant shop and hair salon that opened three weeks ago on West Davis at Woodlawn, next to the adult novelty store.

(The above sentence illustrates why this is the best neighborhood.) Dallas native Nataly Medina took a brief moment from the new-biz brouhaha — and they were busy all weekend from the looks of it — to tell us about the new shop, which she co-owns with her stepsister Cynthia Jasso.

“I’ve been a barber for 10 years,” Medina says, and she calls Jasso “our very own plant lady, [who] worked as a cook for five years. When the pandemic hit, we both were out of jobs for months.”

Like so many Americans during the the pandemic and related stay-home recommendations (not making this up—there are literally studies on this), she says they “were getting heavily into plants throughout this time. (Though she adds that Cynthia “is truly third-generation, crazy green thumb.”)

“Cynthia started making and selling terrariums to make a little extra cash. Meanwhile, being a hairdresser that suffers from psoriasis, I’ve had to be more conscious of what I was using on my body, making it a point to only use plant-based and plant enriched products. I started making products for myself, that I decided to sell during the pandemic, for additional income.”

So one day, the idea of the shop just “dawned on them.”

“What if we open a hair salon and plant shop, where we use tons of plant based/plant enriched products and sell plants? It’s all of our passions and values combined into one space that we can share with the community. And after a year of phone conversations and planning, we opened Crecer Dallas, Hair Salon + Plant Shop.”

Medina says Oak Cliff was the only place for the shop, because her roots here run deep (pun intended).

She lives here and her mom was raised here by her grandma, who died just a couple of years ago.

“My grandma was a single mother of 10, raising her kids in Oak Cliff. Like many, my family doesn’t come from wealth. Being third generation living in Oak Cliff and first gen on my dad’s side, it was important for me to open Crecer Dallas in Oak Cliff, all while representing the Latino community. The meaning of our business was thoughtfully curated with the generations before us in mind and there are so many layers to it, that we can’t wait to share with everyone.”

There you have it. One more place to pick up gorgeously curated house plants. Bishop Arts is home to at least three good ones (none of which also offer salon services though) and I like to think of it as (opposed to competition) creating a sort of the flowering of this area into a horticultural hub.

Crecer Dallas, 428 W Davis No. 2, crecerdallas.com.