What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. This is our final episode at least for now with Maria from Bloom and Grow Radio and we're kind of tying it all together here, bringing it back to you as the gardener,

talking about, you know, who are you?

What do you like to do with plants?

How do you interact with them?

Do you like just having a beautiful, you know, a couple of

bits of greenery in your home or are you emotionally invested in your

plants? Have you named them? Have you, are you willing to pamper them like you would

a pet and how that might inform what actually you should be growing

inside your house. So Maria why don't you break down kind of the two types of

people you see? Yeah so I think that in my first year of going from Plant Killer to Plant Lady, this is kind of been the biggest thing that I see in terms of maybe mistakes people make and it's because they don't understand

what type of plant parent they are or they understand what type of plant parent they are

but they're not buying the right plants for themselves.

So the way I see it is there's kind of a high maintenance plant

parent and a low maintenance plant parent and you can be and I don't want

high maintenance to sound negative because there are a few different reasons why you could be high maintenance and a few different reasons why you could be low maintenance.

So a high maintenance plan parent and I would say that maybe 70 to 80% of my time is spent as a high maintenance plan parent.

That's someone who really is having plans for the aesthetic beauty of them, but also the emotional experience of being

surrounded by plants all the time. You want to nurture them, you want to water them,

you want to be around them, maybe you talk to them, maybe you name them, maybe not, but someone who wants

to really be involved with their plants on a day-to-day basis.

So for me, like plants are part of my morning routine.

In the summer, you know, I sit on my balcony with my coffee with my plants and meditate

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