Defying Gravity: How Air Plants Grow, Bloom, and Inspire Wonder: Best of Growing Joy Replay
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 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So airplants don't get enough love in the house plant community. |
| 0:04.8 | They're a really great low maintenance, low light tolerant plant option. |
| 0:10.4 | They're also just the most fascinating species in the world that they completely defy gravity |
| 0:15.5 | and hang from trees. |
| 0:17.6 | I certainly appreciate them on an even deeper level. |
| 0:20.6 | Now that I live in Florida, |
| 0:21.9 | when I literally go on my walks every day, I see airplants attached to trees, bark, just thriving |
| 0:28.6 | in their natural habitats. They're whimsical, they're alien looking like. They're just such |
| 0:34.1 | fascinating plants that I think you will love to nerd out with me about. So today in the |
| 0:39.0 | Best of Growing Joy series, we're bringing back my dear friend Josh, the Airplant Man, from an episode |
| 0:44.4 | way back, way, way back in the feed. Josh is a landscape architect turned Talanzia expert, |
| 0:50.9 | and he is airplant obsessed, not just |
| 0:54.2 | caring for them, but designing really |
| 0:56.0 | sustainable, beautiful ways to celebrate |
| 0:58.0 | these plants with his creations. |
| 1:00.0 | This episode is great. It's a really |
| 1:02.0 | great beginner's guide to |
| 1:03.9 | airplants, and I hope you leave knowing |
| 1:05.9 | something about them that you didn't before. |
| 1:07.7 | Without further ado, let's dive in. |
| 1:09.8 | Music that you didn't before. Without further ado, let's dive in. |
| 1:20.7 | 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 |
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