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From KQED. Welcome back to Forum.

I'm Alexis Madrigal.

So if we put militant white supremacist group seeding their ideas into one of America's two major political parties at the bad end of the spectrum of things in the world,

then way, way, at the other end, for me, you'd find a seed sprouting, a long-loved fern reaching

out a new tendril.

You'd find a flower bud bursting.

These are strange times we live in, tending our gardens, scanning the dark horizon.

But we want to do the best by our plant friends that we can.

And we know a bunch of people out there probably gave or received house plants as gifts,

these holidays.

Others of you have a legitimate problem.

Honestly, you should stop buying plants.

Your house is overrun.

And there are some people who are convinced that they can never grow anything.

So today, we're joined by those merchants of life,

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