3 Easy DIY Houseplant Projects to Utilize Vertical Space
Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care
Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Are you running out of space for your plants? Growing your plant collection can be quite the challenge when all your countertops, tablespace and even floorspace have been populated with your plant babies. Don’t fret any longer, plant friends, as we got the most beautiful and mess-free DIY projects for you to make the most out of your vertical space at home! In this episode, learn alongside me as Erin Harding of @houseplantclub and @cleverbloom gives us step-by-step tutorials on three amazing yet easy DIYs for your vertical garden.
In this episode, we learn:
- [00:25] Maria’s eureka moment for this episode!
- [01:53] Updates on country living and hummingbirds
- [05:06] Welcome, new Garden Party members!
- [06:57] The easiest way to compost your food scraps
- [11:06] Who is Erin and how did Clever Bloom and Houseplant Club get started?
- [15:14] On the importance of evolving with your plant collection
- [18:26] Erin and Morgan’s brilliant first and second books
- [22:12] How Erin curated her personal aesthetic and developed her passion for DIY
- [24:56] Why accessibility and variety encourage people to DIY
- [27:22] Why you should use vertical space for your plants
- [31:40] How to make a modern beaded macrame plant hanger
- [35:15] The best and most stylish grow lights for your home
- [37:14] Where to get humidifiers for your home and for your health!
- [39:37] Different ways to customize your macrame plant hanger
- [44:41] Step-by-step tutorial of DIY air plant driftwood piece
- [48:03] Watering your air plants in your DIY driftwood plant accessory
- [50:09] What is a kokedama and how does it work?
- [52:04] What are ideal plants to use in a kokedama?
- [53:38] How to make your own kokedama
- [55:59] Bringing natural beauty into your home through DIY projects
- [01:00:12] Erin’s favorite DIY project in her latest book
- [01:03:20] Where to find Erin (and Morgan!) online
- [01:04:53] A friendly reminder for this fall season
Mentioned in our conversation:
- How to plant a room: and grow a happy home, by Morgan Doane and Erin Harding
- BAGR Episode 16: Mounting Epiphytes And The Creation Of Cleverbloom.Com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | To my DIY lovers you crafty creative unique souls today's episode is |
| 0:06.2 | tailor-made for you and to my DIY haters which I used to be one of you, the simplicity, the affordability, the what I call mess-friety of these projects |
| 0:19.2 | might just change your mind and bring you over to the dark DIY side that I now hang out in. |
| 0:26.1 | You know, after doing this for several years I notice in most of our plant-parent journeys, |
| 0:30.2 | there comes a moment where you realize, okay I have no more table countertop |
| 0:36.5 | space I have a lot of plants and I need to get organized and I want to |
| 0:41.7 | refine this aesthetic I want to go from cluttered to |
| 0:44.7 | curated, but I don't have an eye for design to figure out how to kind of utilize my vertical |
| 0:50.0 | space in order to execute that. I definitely remember this feeling when I was living with, you know, |
| 0:55.6 | a hundred houseplants and 500 square feet and I quickly ran out of counter space, the kitchen counter, |
| 1:00.9 | the coffee table, all of the window cells were crammed and I started |
| 1:05.4 | looking at my walls and I started kind of salivating because there was a lot of white space on those |
| 1:10.0 | walls to play with. And once I installed my green wall I never looked back with |
| 1:14.9 | vertical space gardening. So, Plant Friend, if you are looking to elevate your |
| 1:20.9 | plant collection both literally and figuratively, |
| 1:24.3 | figuring out how to get the best bang for your buck |
| 1:27.0 | out of your vertical space is absolutely essential. |
| 1:30.0 | And today's guest makes it crazy simple to implement these fun DIY designs and projects that will literally lift up your plans to the light and give you back that countertop space you so desperately need. So with my whole heart I welcome you back to |
| 1:45.6 | Blue Mangro Radio. |
| 1:50.0 | Hello, hello, plant friends. I hope you've had beautifully planty weeks. I'm |
| 1:57.4 | recording this for you in my office. I am looking at my hummingbird feeder. |
| 2:02.4 | I don't know if you guys follow me on |
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