Choosing a Plant at the Store
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Steinkopf joins us again for a week of houseplant celebration, starting off with how to pick the perfect plant at the nursery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we have a repeat |
| 0:17.7 | guest, a house plant guru if you will. This is Lisa Steinkov. She's a blogger. She's a freelance writer, house plan enthusiast. |
| 0:25.0 | Her latest book is called House Plant Party, fun projects and growing tips for epic indoor plants. |
| 0:31.0 | And again, her website is the house plant guru so Lisa thanks for coming |
| 0:36.2 | back on it's good to have you on thanks for having me yeah of course of course I think |
| 0:40.8 | it's been a while since we've talked about houseplants on the |
| 0:43.6 | podcast here and I know that we are either in or close to house plan |
| 0:48.7 | appreciation week, right? Yes, January 10th is house plan appreciation day and then you know every day is House Plan Appreciation day for me. |
| 0:55.6 | Exactly and I would say maybe not as to the degree that you have it. I certainly appreciate them. |
| 1:01.6 | Obviously I'm a more of an edibles focused |
| 1:03.6 | person but I've got 40 in my house so I'm clearly not a a hater of houseplants |
| 1:09.3 | and no that's a good number that gets my husband wishes I only had 40. Well what do you add? What's your |
| 1:15.2 | collection at? You know I do not count. I have not counted but at one time he counted there |
| 1:19.7 | was 240 on the first floor and that include the sunroom and the upstairs. |
| 1:25.0 | So, but I, you know, I've let, I need to let start letting some of them go because |
| 1:30.0 | it's starting to get, none of them look as good as they could if I had more time. |
| 1:34.8 | Right, okay. I guess that gets us a little bit to today's topic, which is if you're |
| 1:39.7 | going to let some go, obviously you know the next thing you're going to do is |
| 1:42.0 | probably get some more. I know. |
| 1:44.7 | He's like one comes in, one has to go out. I'm like, or he really says like one in, two out, but |
| 1:49.8 | it never seems to happen. Yeah, I mean I feel you on that I bought 14 snake |
| 1:54.6 | plants in November so that's just one one species you know so I went a little crazy |
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