Growing Joy "After Dark": Spilling the Planty Tea

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, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Here’s a special late-night edition of Growing Joy with Plants: After Dark where I spill the planty tea and share a cocktail with my two incredible plant friends, Agatha Isabel and Kamili Bell Hill. You might know Kamili as @plantblerd on Instagram and Agatha as @agathatisabel on Instagram. They've been my real-life plant friends for years, and we recently had a blast at the New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show—and had a sleepover at Kamili's house the night before, which resulted in this episode! This is a candid chat as we dish the dirt on everything from embarrassing plant parent moments to the real talk about representation in the plant community.

In this episode, we learn:

[00:53] Growing Joy After Dark: Real conversations about plant parenthood
[02:18] Plant connections and friendships!
[05:36] What has their collection looked like over time?
[11:18] What is the dark side of plant collecting?
[13:37] Get a personalized wind chime!
[15:11] Safe, high-quality potting mixes and fertilizers
[20:29] What are their favorite plant species?
[23:33] Plant care tips and humidity hacks
[26:24] Grow houseplants even in low-light spaces
[27:57] What is the balance between the joy and stress of plant care?
[30:56] Taking care of plants when traveling
[32:42] Resilient plants and hoyas
[33:25] Some plant disaster stories
[37:16] What's the craziest plant experiment they’ve done?
[39:34] What are the signs of being a true "plant parent"
[51:21] Where to find Agatha and Kamili on social media

Mentioned in our conversation:

The Orchid Show: Florals in Fashion | New York Botanical Garden
Summer Rayne Oakes
Bad Seeds on Apple Podcasts
Bad Seeds on Spotify
Happy Plants, Happy You by Kamili Bell Hill
Houseplant Hookups by Agatha Isabel

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Another reason to have plans, to collect plans, to collect plans, to collect plans, have
0:07.0	a mentor.
0:09.0	Collect them. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants
0:20.3	successfully but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy. plant
0:23.4	successfully but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so.
0:26.5	I'm Maria former plant killer turned happy plant lady author of growing joy the
0:31.6	plant lover's guide to Cultivating Happiness,
0:33.5	Speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend.
0:37.5	On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about houseplant care,
0:41.1	gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.
0:44.3	Plant care is self-care on growing joy.
0:52.3	Hello, plant friends, If you're new here, I'm Maria. I am here to help you care for
0:57.3	plants and grow joy while doing so. And if you're a repeat guest, boy, oh boy, we have a very fun episode for you, a little different
1:06.5	than what we normally do on the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast. I would say probably 99% of my content is purely educational where I'm either interviewing
1:15.2	experts on plant care and self-care or I'm giving solo tutorials, but today we're having a little fun.
1:20.8	Today's about fun and maybe even taking the censor off. It is
1:25.0	growing joy after dark, a real conversation with real plant friends about
1:30.3	our relationships, the plant community, all sorts of stuff.
1:34.0	Let me know if you like this style of episode.
1:36.6	I'm so honored to be joined by my dear friends, Agatha Isabel.
1:40.4	She's Agatha Isabel on Instagram and Camille Bell Hill, who is Plant Blurd on
1:44.4	Instagram. I've known them for so many years. And we literally got invited to this event at New York
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