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
4.8 • 912 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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