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Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Episode 05: Christmas Tree Extravaganza Part 1/2 - Cut Christmas Trees

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

4.8912 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss best practices for selecting, caring for and recycling of Cut Christmas Trees with Mary Jeanne Packer of The Christmas Tree Farmers Association of NY. We also discuss how dangerous artificial trees can be for your home

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episode five of

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d'ango radi episode 5 of it's the most wonderful time of the year.

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The lights are twinkling, the air is crisp, and giving love and the holiday spirit is in the air.

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Can you feel it? Because I can feel it.

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Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, I think everybody loves the quiet excitement of the holiday season and that beautiful act of walking up to a Christmas tree and just sticking your face in those beautiful pine needles and taking a big old

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breath. I'm so excited to bring you not one but two episodes this week that are

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completely devoted to all the different magical ways you can have a Christmas tree or we can call it a holiday bush indoors.

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On this episode, Mary Jean Packer, the Executive Director of the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York,

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that's a mouthful, joins us to walk through the entire process of getting a cut

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Christmas tree and why artificial trees are actually worse for the environment and more dangerous than you think,

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which was kind of mind-blowing.

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And then you can head over to episode 6, which is released the same time as this episode,

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and enjoy my interview with Joe Lample of

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Joe Gardner.com and the award-winning PBS show Growing a Greener World.

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He teaches us about how you can actually have a potted living Christmas tree.

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Yes, that's right.

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Living, root ball in a pot.

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You can put it back into nature after how we can enjoy a living Christmas tree which is a

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really new kind of up-and-coming trend in our home. I hope you tune into both episodes

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because Joe really gives us some amazing insight and how having a living Christmas tree is totally attainable

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