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title: "Do you name your plants? If so how do you pick their names? My Birken…"
description: "Do you name your plants? If so how do you pick their names? My Birken is named Susan. She just looks like a Susan to me. My Hoya Krimson Princess is named…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/63e7005e58f4336da7e97754"
community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Amanda C."
published: "2023-02-11T02:41:34.776Z"
language: "en"
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# Do you name your plants? If so how do you pick their names? My Birken…

_Posted by Amanda C. on 2023-02-11_

Do you name your plants? If so how do you pick their names?

My Birken is named Susan. She just looks like a Susan to me.

My Hoya Krimson Princess is named Princess Buttercup after The Princess Bride.

Just curious how you come up with names.

## 5 comments

### Kitty commented on 2023-02-13

Species is super important for me! I named my money tree “Mr. Krabs” and other plants follow that trend

### 401\_paigenotfound commented on 2023-02-13

I name almost all of my plants and I do so by naming them after influential women in my life (mostly celebrities that I love). And yes, they’re all girls, I don’t know why, it’s just instinct for me to refer to them has she/her 😅

### thejudithkaren commented on 2023-02-13

I’m new to being a plant mama. Never thought about naming them. Do y’all think that giving each a name is just fun, or does it encourage you to care for them more?

#### Amanda C. replied on 2023-02-16

Maybe a little of both. 🤷🏻‍♀️

### my kids are green 🪴 commented on 2023-02-18

I have 65 plants and they all have names. I can’t remember anything important, but I can remember all of those names! 😂

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