Buy Nothing Garden: 4 Ways To Build a Dream Garden for No or Low Cost

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

Education, Wellness, Gardening, Leisure, Eco Therapy, Nature Therapy, Self Care, Health & Fitness, Houseplants, How To, Home & Garden, Mental Health, Plants

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	What if the world's most beautiful gardens aren't built with money, but built with community,
0:05.7	patience, and a little creativity, and are so much more rewarding for it?
0:11.4	Today, I am joined by expert gardener, renowned author Stephanie Rose, the author of the new
0:17.8	book, The Wild and Free Garden, and Stephanie shares how buy nothing gardening,
0:22.8	bartering and shared resources cannot just transform your garden, but transform your entire life.
0:28.0	This book is interesting, this concept is interesting because it's this cheap, no buy, low cost,
0:33.8	garden, but actually it's about leaning on your community in the most beautiful and needed way.
0:39.7	We'll explore how to grow more by spending less, why connection is the secret ingredient
0:44.3	and how letting go of control can lead to the most meaningful gardens.
0:59.4	Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in
1:04.5	our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of
1:10.1	Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, Speaker, Podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend.
1:16.8	On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.
1:23.2	Plant care is self-care.
1:26.7	On Growing Joy. Plant care is self-care on growing joy.
1:32.8	Hello, plant friends. If you're new here, welcome. If you're a returning guest, welcome home.
1:37.4	My name is Maria. I'm your best plant friend, and I'm here to help you grow joy by caring for plants and tending to nature. And what's more joyful than
1:46.8	doing something for free? Or getting something for free, right? So this is a really fun conversation.
1:52.2	Before we dive into it, I just wanted to let you know, part two of our growing joy in 26 series
1:58.1	is this Sunday at noon Eastern time. We're going to be talking about how to make
2:03.6	2026 the most joyful year yet by connecting with nature. And I know that this is a very scary
2:09.9	time in our world. I know that it's hard to find hope and hard to find joy. And that is why it has
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