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Live Plants Outdoor

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $7K a year here, so Live Plants Outdoor is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 7,765 of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · −14 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$7K/yr70K searches / yr
90-day growth
-15.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
52%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 9 sellers

Flapen Score

Live Plants Outdoor against its category

The dotted line is the Patio, Lawn & Garden average. Past it, Live Plants Outdoor is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Live Plants Outdoor market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Live Plants Outdoor 70K times last year and spent an estimated $7K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Apr–May–Jul. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 70K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -15.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $7K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
70K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-15.0%
Conversion, latest week
1.0%
Market size, estimated
$7Ka year
Peak month
July5.0× the quietest month
Top search term
colored hosta plants30K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.96.

Listings sell for $9.96 on average, from $7.27 to $18.43. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $9.96 that is $0 to $996 a year per listing.

Average price
$9.96under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.27–$18.43
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$996
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

68% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 88% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,273 within Flowers. It carries 109 reviews at 2.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
68%
Prime listings
88%
Out of stock, average day
5.2%
Average rank
#1,273in Flowers
Average rating
2.49 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
109per listing
Listings tracked
25

04 · Newcomers

9 of last year's 23 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

23 products launched here in the last 12 months. 9 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
23
Successful launches
9Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Live Plants Outdoor products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 52% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

9

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

4%

  • Brand 143%
  • Brand 222%
  • Brand 319%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Demand

Live Plants Outdoor search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

7K5KSpike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, May, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.0×

Search terms

Top Live Plants Outdoor search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • colored hosta plants30K/yr
  • colored hostas15K/yr
  • purple hosta8K/yr
  • red and white hosta plants2K/yr
  • exotic hostas6K/yr
  • purple hostas4K/yr
  • purple hostas plants792/yr
  • red and white hostas535/yr
  • purple hosta plants live940/yr
  • red and white hosta409/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Live Plants Outdoor

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

49%of positive reviews mention “Plant Growth”
63%of negative reviews mention “Plant Growth”
0.3%of orders come back
“Poor germination”
A buyer, on “Plant Growth”63% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Live Plants Outdoor questions

Answered from the same tracked data.