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100 Perfect Plant Captions for Instagram

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We hope you find what you’re looking for in this article containing a selection of funny plant captions for Instagram posts! Simply click the contents below and jump to your desired section.

Whether you’re potty over indoor plants or love tending to your allotment, everything you need is contained within this post!

We’ve got an incredible selection of the best plant quotes for Instagram for you to choose from. Plant lovers will feel right at home here!

For the witty among you, there is also a hilarious selection containing our favorite plant puns!

Plant Captions for Instagram

Plant Captions for Instagram
  • You grow girl. 
  • I like my plants like I like my thumbs – green.
  • I be-leaf in you.
  • Flower power.
  • You can never have too many plants.
  • Plants can’t solve all problems, but they’re a great start.
  • I’m powered by plants.
  • Aloe you vera much.
  • The best things in life are green!
  • Plant lady is the new cat lady.

Next: Spring Captions for Instagram

Plant Captions
  • Green is the new black.
  • I’m sexy and I grow it.
  • Green queen.
  • Not dead yet…
  • Growth looks good on you.

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  • My new addition is suc-CUTE-lent.
  • The plants and I need a drink.
  • I’m ready to stop being cactI, and ready to start being cactUS.
  • Life is short. Get more plants.
  • Planting this beauty on my feed.
  • Bloom, baby, bloom.
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  • Ok, bloomer.
  • She’s lookin’ sharp.
  • Just another succulent appreciation post.
  • It’s beginning to look like a jungle.
  • Happiness blooms from within.
  • The plant life chose me.
  • Sometimes, I wet my plants.
  • You prickle my fancy.
  • Can’t stop, won’t stop buying plants.
  • My cactus is lookin’ sharp today.
  • When in doubt, add plants.

Next: Fall Instagram Captions

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  • Big plant mom energy.
  • Turning over a new leaf.
  • Always rooting for you!
  • Just adding a little greenery to your feed today
  • Got a new plant friend today, so it’s safe to say it’s been good.
  • Unbeleafable!
  • I don’t need less plants, I need more shelves.
  • I’m a proud plant parent.
  • If a plant is sad, do other plants photosynthesize with it.
  • I can’t make it. I’m busy tonight (staying home with my plants).
House Plant Captions
  • More plants, less problems.
  • I’m a plant lady. What’s your superpower?
  • I’m a succa for you.
  • Look at you, all grown up!
  • Be honest, have I bought too many succulents?
  • Leaf me alone – I’m hanging with my plants.
  • I love you a lily more each day. 
  • You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy flowers, and that’s pretty much the same thing.
  • I like to take long walks down the succulent aisle.
  • Plants don’t tell, they show.
  • Crazy plant lady.

Plant Quotes for Instagram

Plant Quotes for Instagram
  • “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
  • “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • “A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.” –  Beth Ditto
  • “Totally swooning over my new best friend.” — Megan Cain
  • “Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.” – Linda Solegato
  • “Grow shorty; it’s your birthday.” — Grow With Gracee
  • “Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Lou Erickson
  • “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “Garden as though you will live forever.” – William Kent
  • “You can plant a dream.” –  Anne Campbell
Plants Quotes for Instagram
  • “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.” — Mitch Hedberg
  • “If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.” – Russell Page
  • “Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.” – Lindley Karstens
  • “Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.” – Michael Garafalo

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  • Advice from a sunflower: Be bright, sunny, and positive. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head high.
  • “Like people, plants respond to extra attention.” — H. Peter Loewer
  • “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • “ I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.” – David Hobson
Plant Instagram Quotes
  • “We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.” –  Adolfo Perez Esquivel
  • “A few friendly reminders: remember to water your plants and wash your hands.” — Megan Cain
  • “God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.” – Francis Bacon
  • Plant touch this.
  • Another day, another plant purchase.
  • I like big plants and I cannot lie.
  • Pot it like it’s hot. 
  • You’re pretty fly for a little cacti.
  • It’s not easy being so tiny and green.
  • I guess I’m a succulent mom now.
  • Bloom where you are planted.
  • Flowers don’t show, they tell.

Plant Puns for Instagram

Plant Puns for Instagram
  • A cactus is just a really aggressive cucumber.
  • I never want you to leaf me.
  • You’re looking suc-cute-lent today.
  • I’m so glad I pricked you.
  • If you take a selfie with your succulents, is it called a face plant?
  • I’m a succa for puns.
  • Cactus makes perfect.
  • Say aloe to my little friend.
  • Go ahead, plant one on me.
  • Plants are my soil mates.
Plant Puns
  • Always got thyme for you.
  • All right, see if you can plant one on me now!
  • Dear succulents, I promise I’ll never desert you.
  • Cacti – the only pricks worth dealing with.
  • Botany plants lately?
  • I don’t wanna brag, but this plant is a big dill. 
  • I never want you to leaf me.
  • You win sedum, you lose sedum.
  • What kind of plant pictures get the most likes on social media? Thirst traps.
  • I’m telling you once and flora.
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Iain Salter

Founder & Editor of The Road Trip Expert

Iain founded The Road Trip Expert in 2019 and continues to manage the website to this day. The inspiration to start the blog came during an extensive road trip around Europe with two friends that spanned several months and involved over 25,000km of driving. He first developed a passion for backpacking in 2014 and has had the pleasure of exploring over 60 countries.

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