As we move into the winter season and you notice the days are getting shorter, you might also notice that your plants start looking a little sleepy.

Maybe they start grown a little slower.

Maybe they have some leaves die back.

And this episode is created to help you not panic and learn that the plants are moving into a cozy season just like we are.

So this is an old episode that we're

bringing back in the Best of Growing Joy series, a solo episode where I give you the ins and outs

of why our plants kind of experience this quiescence, this cozy season, and give you some of my

tried and true tips to make sure that your houseplants are happy all

winter long from adjusting your light and humidity to finding peace in your own personal dormancy.

I hope this episode gives you all of the cozy vibes and sets you up for success as we enter

the dormant season for our plants and hopefully ourselves.

Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more

joy in our lives by doing so.

I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's

Guide to Cultivating Happiness, Speaker, Podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend.

On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials,

and wellness through the lens of plants.

Plant care is self-care on growing joy.

By the end of this episode, I promise you that you will have a larger understanding of how winter impacts our plants and

actual steps to take to ensure that you have a healthy and happy winter for your plants,

but residually for yourself. Because when your plants are happy, you're less stressed, right? We've

all been there when a plant goes south and then it totally stresses us out for two weeks until we figure out how to fix it

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