On September 27, GreenSnap Marche YOKOHAMA 2026 AUTUMN reached its final day in Yamashita Park’s Festival Plaza.
Held over September 26 and 27, the autumn market brought together plant and garden-supply shops, creators and workshops from across Japan. Official hours ran from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the first day and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the final day. Following the spring edition, the event returned as a special program of Garden Necklace Yokohama 2026.
Yokohama had seen several rainy days, but lingering clouds on Sunday still left enough time to walk the outdoor booths at an easy pace. The funnel of Hikawa Maru rose beyond the site, with rows of white tents in front of it.
Some visitors carried plants; others stopped at the shelves to study one pot at a time. The grounds were lively with people who had come for the plants.
Putting plants on the wall: shinya.plants
The shinya.plants booth was among the first to catch the eye.
Inside the white tent, mounted staghorn ferns covered the walls. Unlike pots set on floors or shelves, the plants appeared as three-dimensional forms floating against a vertical surface.
According to the official exhibitor introduction, shinya.plants grows staghorn ferns in Yokohama and also handles plants from Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan. The booth invited both first-time growers and people who had lost a plant before, offering care guidance alongside the plants for sale.
The booth in the photograph held a range of forms, from large, fully extended specimens to compact mounted plants. Even within the broad name “staghorn fern,” the rise of the fronds and the way each plant settled onto its board differed from one specimen to the next.
When each plant is kept as an individual record in RareDex, those differences become exactly what is worth preserving: not only a name, but its size and frond direction on the day it came home, and the way its form changes afterward. The time spent choosing at the market can become the first day of that record.
Thinking about care from the soil: botani soil
Another memorable stop was the Kai | botanical_vlog booth, which exhibited on September 27 only.
Bags of botani soil, a potting mix for indoor foliage plants, stood on the table beside pots and plants.
The official introduction describes botani soil as a dedicated houseplant mix designed to make insect problems less likely and watering timing easier to read. Rather than stopping at the purchase of a plant, the booth presented what comes next as part of the product.
At a plant event, leaf shape and rarity naturally draw attention. Yet from the day a plant comes home, soil, water, light, a pot and a place to put it all become necessary.
That plants and the tools used to keep them could appear in the same place was part of what made GreenSnap Marche interesting.
Move closer to a single pot
Beyond the large staghorn ferns, shelves across the market were filled with smaller plants, including tillandsias.
From a distance, the gathering read as a plant market. Step inside one booth and move closer to a single pot, and the thickness and color of the leaves, the way the plant has been presented and even the growing medium come into view.
Online, it is easy to see only the plant entered into a search box. At a gathering like this, an unfamiliar plant can enter the field of vision, with another cultivation method or tool right beside it.
Buying the one plant you came for may not be the only reason to visit a plant market.
Yamashita Park after the rain
GreenSnap Marche YOKOHAMA 2026 AUTUMN closed after its two-day run.
The weekend began under the worry of continued rain, yet people came to Yamashita Park on the final day and green forms carried on between the white tents.
Some chose a plant. Some examined soil. Others asked how to care for what they had found.
The value was in seeing not only the plants, but their growers, tools and ways of presenting them in one place.
Looking back through the four photographs, Yamashita Park that day felt less like a place simply to buy plants than a place where many different ways of living with them had been set side by side.
