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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Keep an Air Plant Alive!

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Josh and I talk about how to stop killing your air plants. They can be a bit tricky to care for because they're so unlike most plants you'll grow in your garden. About Josh Josh Rosen is an expert in the care and collection of Tillandsia, and runs a landscape architecture and air plant design business. Connect With Josh: Website Instagram Facebook Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. It's Air Plant Week here on the

0:07.2

cast. I'm joined again by Josh Rosen of Air Plant Man. Website Man website is Air Plant Man. website is Air Plant Man.

0:12.8

And today, we are probably going to be cracking the

0:18.2

cracking the seal on all the Air Plant secrets.

0:20.7

I know, you know, Air Plants are often sold at nurseries they're billed as

0:24.6

relatively easy to take care of and then I don't know about you guys but I have a

0:28.9

lot of friends who are just getting into plant care and that's one of their go-tos and then they just totally can't make it work.

0:36.4

And it's not their own fault, I mean it's just the fact that it's a really unusual plant.

0:41.9

Like Josh said, it breaks many of the rules

0:44.1

that we're used to seeing plants follow, right?

0:47.2

Like the fact that it doesn't even need soil.

0:49.4

So Josh, could you run us through?

0:52.2

Maybe we could start off with some misconceptions

0:54.5

about airplane care. Oh yes don't get me started Kevin. I got to do this

0:59.1

episode and I you know about 10 years ago when I started designing and sharing sharing work about

1:06.1

airplants it was explaining what they were the last few years it's been

1:09.6

consoling people who have killed these a number of times.

1:12.8

So I don't want to discourage your audience,

1:14.7

but absolutely there are,

1:17.6

there's a lot of misinformation out there.

1:19.7

And I would start with, you know, so there's three basic components we'll cover today water

1:25.4

light and air we can start with water and so I am just horrified all the time when

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