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r/houseplants vs r/gardening

Side-by-side using public descriptions, members, growth and rule titles from SubMouse. Missing fields show as n/a. Adult communities are excluded.

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Yard-and-garden breadth vs indoor plant care

r/gardening’s public description frames a broad plant-and-care community—guides, pictures and discussion across plants in general—while r/houseplants narrows that interest to plants kept indoors. In our directory, gardening is the larger community (about 9.0M members, directory rank #85) against houseplants (about 3.0M, directory rank #357).

Where we have posting samples, gardening mixes images, galleries and text, which matches a community that shares plots, harvests and plant IDs as often as it debates technique. We do not yet have a collected activity sample or short rule titles for houseplants on SubMouse, so those fields stay n/a rather than guessed.

Our directory lists houseplants among related communities for gardening. That is a direct link between these two names—not a claim that every other name on either related list is a good match. Start outdoors or with general plant questions in gardening; take leaf-level indoor care and windowsill problems to houseplants when that is what you mean.

  • Choose r/gardening for outdoor growing, plots, harvests and broad plant discussion.
  • Choose r/houseplants when the plant lives indoors and care is the point.
  • Directory rank is listing order, not a quality score; houseplants is listed but does not yet have a full SubMouse community page.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.

r/houseplants

Houseplants

A community focused on the discussion, care, and well-being of houseplants!

Members
3M
7-day growth
+1.8K
Posts/day
143.6
Directory rank
#357
Created
Jun 17, 2011
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: galleries 52%, images 34%, text posts 11%

Topics: Houseplants

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Posts must be houseplant-related.
  • Be civil to each other.
  • Do not post personal information.
  • No self-promotion
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) content is not allowed
  • "Stuff" related posts are only allowed on Saturdays and must be flaired.
  • No photos of people except on Fridays.
  • No plant-related crime
  • OP is a re-post bot

Open r/houseplants on SubMouse

About this community: r/houseplants (#357, about 3 million) discusses houseplant care and well-being. Rules require houseplant relevance and civility; ban PII, self-promo, AI content, plant-related crime; “stuff” posts only Saturdays with flair; people photos only Fridays. Gallery/Image (~143.6 ppd).

r/gardening

Gardening, Plants, and Agriculture.

A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care.

Members
9M
7-day growth
+2.1K
Posts/day
111.5
Directory rank
#85
Created
Mar 20, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: images 40%, galleries 36%, text posts 20%

Topics: Gardening, Houseplants

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No Advertising or Self-promotion
  • No Reposting Unless it's for a Good Reason.

Open r/gardening on SubMouse

About this community: r/gardening ranks #85 on SubMouse’s SFW Top list (about 9.0 million subscribers in the directory). Catalogue framing: A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care. Moderation themes that shape the room include: No Advertising or Self-promotion; FAMILY-FRIENDLY! No Trolls in the Garden. No abusive or sexual content.; No Reposting Unless it's for a Good Reason..

Supported differences

Aspectr/houseplantsr/gardening
Public focus (from each community’s public description) A community focused on the discussion, care, and well-being of houseplants! A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care.
Size
r/gardening is larger in our directory (about 3×).
 3M members 9M members
Posting activity (our sample) 143.6/day 111.5/day
Common post types in our sample galleries 52%, images 34%, text posts 11% images 40%, galleries 36%, text posts 20%
Topic tags on SubMouse Houseplants Gardening, Houseplants
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Posts must be houseplant-related.; Be civil to each other.; Do not post personal information.; No self-promotion; Artificial Intelligence (AI) content is not allowed No Advertising or Self-promotion; No Reposting Unless it's for a Good Reason.

What they share

  • Shared SubMouse topics: Houseplants
  • Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and tone we can verify

For r/gardening we collected these short rule titles: no advertising or self-promotion; a family-friendly space with no abusive or sexual content; and limits on pointless reposts. We have not collected short rule titles for houseplants yet, so that side stays n/a in the comparison table.

Where this comparison comes from

Public titles, descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory (see the date on this page). Gardening short rule titles and a posting-activity sample SubMouse collected. Direct directory related-link from gardening → houseplants. Rule lines are short titles only — not full sidebar text or post bodies.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: