Natalie Nijmeh’s downtown San Jose store may be small — roughly equal to a single-car garage — but it packs a rebellious punch. Starting with its name.
Plant Slut, located smack dab in the middle of San Pedro Square, is what you could call a bohemian Gen Z-ers paradise. There are the plants of course, from little cacti to a 9-foot-tall fig tree. Other goodies also fill the store, from marijuana-themed ashtrays to body-part-shaped mini ceramic pots to a turquoise-colored bar of soap with a two-word phrase etched in it that can’t be printed in this newspaper.
Hint: it rhymes with “bucket.”
For 25-year-old Nijmeh, a San Jose native, the