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

Episode 50: Maranta, Calathea and Stromanthe 101

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

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

with Marc Hachadourian NYBG Marc joins us today to educate on where the plants that make up the Marantaceae family come from, how to care from them indoors and troubleshoots our listener questions!

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We're back welcome to episode 50 of Boom and go radio

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Plant Friends.

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Welcome to season 3 of Bloom and Grow Radio.

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I am so excited to be back. I hope that you listened to last week's short

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updates, announcements, and invitations episode where I want to feature you on an upcoming episode of Bloom and Grow Radio,

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but on it I also announced that I'm currently on the national tour of Cats the Musical,

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which means that Bloom and Grow Radio will be on the road this year.

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So by the time this episode hits the airwaves,

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I'll be in Buffalo, New York.

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Stay tuned and make sure that you've joined my email list

0:50.3

and you're following me on Instagram

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because I will be doing live events

0:53.7

across the country in the cities that Katz is in and I would really like to meet you in

0:57.8

real life hashtag plant friends in real life so plant friends we are kicking off season three with your top most requested

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episode out of any topic I've ever gotten. A 101 episode on how to care for the Marantasia family and understanding why on earth these

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calatias and prayer plans and stromanthi can be so dang hard to care for.

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I would say that my most frequently asked question in my

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Instagram d'ams or through email is why are my prayer plants or calathea

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browning at the tips? Why, why, why? I know the struggle is real with this family so I think the

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Marantecia family has some of the most gorgeously patterned leaves they look like

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their hand-painted I mean seriously some of the most beautiful I've ever seen but they are tricky so I'm

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