Episode 87: My Fiancé Cared for My Plants for a Year While I was on Tour: Here’s What Happened

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

4.8 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

my Fiance, Billy, joins me to discuss his experience taking over the fulltime care of our 150 plants while I left to tour the country with Cats the Musical for the year!

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0:00.0	Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
0:07.0	high plant friends welcome to episode 87 of
0:12.0	Blue dango Radio Plant Friends, how is it going? I hope your weeks have been calm and
0:20.0	planty as per usual. Honestly I don't want to talk about the pandemic today.
0:25.4	We are going to have a specific episode geared
0:28.1	towards what we can do as a community
0:29.7	to help and support our planti businesses coming out, but right now, that's all I want to say I think we're hearing so much about it and I just want to bring you
0:37.7	some planty content that's going to bring a smile to your face today right and
0:41.4	no better person to bring a smile to your face than Billy! My partner in
0:45.5	plants, my partner in life, my recent fiance, we did this interview a couple weeks ago. It got pushed
0:51.8	back because I wanted to squeeze some other
0:53.4	episodes in before it and I'm so excited to finally bring it to you as most of you
0:57.8	know I left for a year I built our collection of plants to 150 in our tiny apartment and then I booked the national tour of cats and I left and I went on tour with the musical for a year and all of a sudden Billy was in charge.
1:11.0	So Billy went from being the secondary plant parent. I was definitely
1:15.2	the primary caretaker of all of our plants. He went from really not being very
1:20.4	hands-on with the plant care to being the sole care provider for all of
1:24.6	our plants and it was a wild ride for him and it was a very special experience for
1:29.6	me to watch him grow into the plant parent that he is now and he learned so much and it was funny because it was really like he was back where I was two years ago when I started the podcast with very minimal knowledge and he learned a lot obviously and he had to learn a lot
1:44.4	faster than I had to learn because he had so many more plants so I figured we
1:48.5	haven't had him on the show since episode 50 which was his tips for living with a crazy plant person so if any of you
1:55.5	listeners out there have a spouse that you live with a partner a roommate I would
1:59.2	suggest having them listen to that episode it was hugely successful because Billy lays out his
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