'I love the ephemeral nature of cut flowers and plants. They remind me of how temporary and precious life is.'
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It helps that I’m a nineties kid who spent lots of time playing outside before the Internet really took off. There’s a picture of me as a child, wearing a leopard print shirt, smiling underneath a six-foot sunflower in our backyard. My siblings and I each had sunflowers we’d planted as tiny seeds and watched sprout into sunny-faced giants.
While I haven’t mastered this aesthetic within my own space, I have tended to houseplants – and I am learning a lot in the process. The pandemic is what changed my lackadaisical approach. I found an online course from PlantKween on uplifting your space with plants while giving them proper care. I learned everything from assessing your space’s lighting to watering versus overwatering to aerating and fertilizing the soil. I began to see that plant care involved more than just simply giving plants light and water.
Throughout my journey as a plant parent, I’ve come to better understand their silent language. Soggy brown roots? Root rot. Yellow leaves? Either too much or too little water. Top two to three inches of dry soil? Time for some water.
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