I've been on an eight-year campaign to bring more attention and love to this plant that we are doing a deep dive on today, as you will find out, because this plant, the snake plant, otherwise known as the San Severea, is often touted as a low-light plant, but it wants to soak up the sun plant, friends. It deserves so much more than it

gets. So today, we're revisiting a favorite episode of mine with guest Chris Satch, which is a deep

dive on snake plants, finally giving them a full episode to learn more about them, from their

African roots to why they wrinkle,

flop, or sometimes even bloom. Get ready for a joyful, myth-busting deep dive into the care

structure and secret strengths of one of my favorite plants. All right, plant friends,

if today's episode convinced you to let your snake plant finally bask in some well-deserved sunshine, just wait

until you see how much happier, how much chubbier those leaves become when you put them in

the light where they deserve to be. 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.

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Chris O. self-care on growing joy. Chris, welcome back. I don't even know what number repeat appearance this is for you.

It's so great to be back. It's so great to be here and see you again.

I know, I know. I've been wanting to do an episode on snake plants for years.

Snake plants are definitely my favorite fam, favorite type of plant. I think they're the most under celebrated plant in the house plant parent

collection. And when I decided I wanted to do when I know you'd be my guy to do a deep dive on them.

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