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
4.8 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:07.0 | We're back welcome to episode 50 of Boom and go radio |
| 0:15.0 | Plant Friends. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to season 3 of Bloom and Grow Radio. |
| 0:21.0 | I am so excited to be back. I hope that you listened to last week's short |
| 0:27.9 | updates, announcements, and invitations episode where I want to feature you on an upcoming episode of Bloom and Grow Radio, |
| 0:35.0 | but on it I also announced that I'm currently on the national tour of Cats the Musical, |
| 0:39.0 | which means that Bloom and Grow Radio will be on the road this year. |
| 0:43.0 | So by the time this episode hits the airwaves, |
| 0:45.6 | I'll be in Buffalo, New York. |
| 0:47.4 | Stay tuned and make sure that you've joined my email list |
| 0:50.3 | and you're following me on Instagram |
| 0:52.0 | 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 |
| 1:06.2 | 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 |
| 1:16.1 | calatias and prayer plans and stromanthi can be so dang hard to care for. |
| 1:21.3 | I would say that my most frequently asked question in my |
| 1:25.0 | Instagram d'ams or through email is why are my prayer plants or calathea |
| 1:29.3 | browning at the tips? Why, why, why? I know the struggle is real with this family so I think the |
| 1:35.0 | Marantecia family has some of the most gorgeously patterned leaves they look like |
| 1:39.2 | 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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