Oh my sweet plan friends what a year it has been here we are the end of 2020 boy oh boy I'm

I'm thankful that it's coming to a close and I'm excited for 2021 and in in thinking about it, there's a real silver lining

that 2020 has given us, and that is the ability

to truly understand the power of plants

and how they can help us relieve stress and cultivate more joy in our lives.

My goal for Blue and Grow is to help everyone successfully care for plants for that exact reason

to make the world a kinder and greener place.

Okay, so on the flip side, let's have some real talk right now.

There is a dark side to the hobby of plant care.

There is a moment in all of our lives as plant parents.

We've all been there where our passionate hobby teeters

that thin line between joyful and stressful, where we've fallen so deeply in love with plants,

we can't stop thinking about them, we can't stop bringing them home. We're growing our indoor

jungles. And then we hit this moment where we realized, oof, I think I have too many plants. I brought too many plants home at once.

Or we go through a season of life where we can't just have the time or mental capacity to care for our collection and then we feel disappointed in ourselves.

I have totally struggled with this and initially thought that my struggles with Plant Parent

Overwhelm had been unique to me and that I was an outlier in our community.

But after hearing from you guys in our listener survey through DMs and emails that I've heard from you and in our

Patreon Zoom calls I know that this moment of Plant Parent Overwhelm is something we

all struggle with and therefore we all need to start talking about so we're gonna

take a look at it today in several

different ways and I can't think of a better way to wrap up season six than

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