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Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Low Light Plants for Beginners and Advanced Plant Parents with the Houseplant Guru: Best of Growing Joy Replay

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

4.8912 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0

Not every home is blessed with the big sunny windows that plant lovers want, right? Let's be real.

0:05.8

But just because you don't have a highlight environment does not mean that you cannot fill your home with thriving plants.

0:12.8

And actually, some of the most rewarding and beautiful houseplants are ones that do well in low light.

0:18.2

That's why I'm so excited to bring back this episode of the Best of Growing

0:22.0

Joy replay series. It's an episode with Lisa from the house plant guru from a few years back

0:27.6

where we highlight the unsung heroes of the northern facing windowsills, the cozy apartments

0:34.1

with bad light. Lisa reveals her top low light plant picks what low light actually

0:39.9

means for your plants because let's be real, you need some light in order for plants to survive,

0:45.3

which we'll get into, and how to set your low light plants up for success, even if you don't have

0:50.3

the sunniest spot in town. So if you've ever thought your home was too dark for plants, or if you're looking at a dimly lit area of your home scratching your head, wanting to

0:58.2

bring plants home but not sure how to do it, listen to this episode. I hope it helps.

1:09.3

Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants

1:13.9

successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in

1:19.0

our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of

1:24.6

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,

1:32.5

you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials, and wellness through the

1:36.8

lens of plants. Plant care is self-care on growing joy.

1:49.9

Thank you so much for having me, Maria. I'm so excited.

1:55.1

I'm so excited to have you on the show because I feel like low light is an issue for so many people. So many of us live in apartments like myself. I only have windows on one side of my

2:00.6

apartment. The majority of my space is low

2:02.8

light. It's a problem most of us have. It's a reason why most of us kill plants because we don't know any

2:07.9

better. And I'm so excited to have you to guide us through how to enjoy our low light spaces and bring

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