08/18/2026
🌿 MEET THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTS 🌿
Hello, all my planty friends! My name is Devon Page, and I’m the man behind the posts—and the creator of PlantAholx! I thought it was finally time to introduce myself and share a little about how this plant-filled adventure began.
PlantAholx started with one single houseplant—which we still have today! It began as an Alocasia Stingray corm that was given to us around the spring of 2022. My roommate asked me if I could get it growing, and although I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, I gave it my best shot!
That one little corm sparked something in us. We began learning everything we could about plants, and over the next few years, our collection—and our knowledge—continued to grow. We learned how to care for plants, propagate them, and share them with others. By 2025, we decided PlantAholx would be the perfect way to turn our newfound passion into something more!
My hope is to eventually make PlantAholx my full-time job if my current career ever comes to an end—although I’m certainly hoping that doesn’t happen anytime soon! More on that in a moment.
☕ A LITTLE ABOUT ME
I’m 37 years old and live with my partner of seven years and our roommate. We also have two tiny, feathered family members—our parakeets, Sweetpea and Petrie.
When I’m not surrounded by plants, I enjoy cooking, gardening, canning, propagating, drinking coffee, and enjoying life on our little slice of heaven. Music has always been a huge part of my life, whether I’m playing, listening, or singing. I’m also a big fan of DCI—definitely a band nerd at heart! 🎶
I was born and raised in Missouri and graduated from Webb City High School in 2007. After graduation, I moved with my parents to Pittsburg, Kansas. In 2013, I moved to Jodie, West Virginia, and then relocated to Charleston in 2016. It’s hard to believe I’ve now called this area home for ten years!
Over the years, I’ve worn many hats and worked a little bit of everywhere:
🍹 Bartender
🍽️ Waiter
☎️ Telephone sales representative
📋 Telephone survey representative
🧪 Assistant to a pharmaceutical professor
🍔 Fast-food worker
📚 Continuing education class host
🧹 Janitor at the Charleston Coliseum
📬 Mail clerk for the West Virginia State Tax Department
And now, I’ve found another passion: working as an assistant racing greyhound trainer! 🐾
I began working at the Lester Raines kennel two years ago, and I’ve completely fallen in love with these sweet dogs. The schedule can take a lot out of me. I normally work five days a week from approximately 6:00–10:00 a.m., 1:30 or 2:00–4:00 p.m.—sometimes longer on schooling days—and then again from 6:00–7:20 p.m. Even with those long, split days, I wouldn’t trade the experience for the world.
Working with these amazing dogs has taught me so much. One of the biggest lessons has been seeing firsthand how different my daily experience is from the picture of greyhound racing that is often presented to the public. The dogs in my care are spoiled from the moment they arrive at the track until the day they retire and head off to become professional couch potatoes!
One of the hardest parts of my job is saying goodbye when a racer retires. You know they’re moving on to a comfortable new life, but each one takes up a huge place in your heart. Seeing them happy and loved in their adoptive homes makes letting go a little easier.
When we take the day’s sprint list from the board and begin loading the truck, the entire kennel comes alive because the dogs know exactly what’s happening!
Most of our racers retire at around four years old. When they show us they’re ready to be finished, we don’t force them to continue.They’re adopted into loving homes where they can spend the rest of their lives relaxing on a couch and being spoiled more.
We tell every one of our racers, “We don’t care what you run, as long as you come home safely.” And we truly mean it. Their safety matters far more to us than anything written on a points sheet.
Vanilla crème cookies, oatmeal crème pies, and banana crème pies are some of their absolute favorite treats! You should see Claude get excited over a cookie—it’s one of the cutest things ever! Our trainer always says, “I wish I got as happy as he does over a cookie!” 😂
I love my job, I love this area, and I’m loving the opportunity to bring all of you some of the best plants West Virginia has to offer! 🪴
Thank you to everyone who has made the past eight months so memorable and such an absolute blast. I look forward to seeing all of you during our monthly live shows. I also love meeting everyone who picks up their orders and seeing the happiness that these plants bring into your lives.
Thank you for taking the time to get to know the man behind PlantAholx. Here’s to many more months—and hopefully many more years—of plants, friendships, laughter, learning, and growing together! 💚🌱
—Devon
