Winter Houseguest Plants: Outdoor Plants That Can Grow Indoors This Winter (and go right back outside next summer!)

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, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What if there’s a way to enjoy your favorite outdoor plants year-round, save money, and keep them inside as houseplants during the winter? The answer lies in overwintering outdoor plants indoors, which is a brilliant technique I talked about with my friend and gardening expert, Janey Santos from Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat. Janey is a master gardener, YouTuber, and just an all-around plant genius, and she shared five incredible plants that can grow successfully indoors over winter and head right back outside next summer.

In this episode, we learn:

[03:27] Gardening in different climates
[06:13] Plant swap announcement!
[08:25] Why atrium is an ideal plant
[10:31] Why coleus is the easiest plant to propagate
[11:35] What are geraniums?
[15:07] Why you should invest in grow lights
[16:12] How to get personalized Wind River Chimes
[17:42] Gardening solutions for your indoor and outdoor plants
[21:05] Geranium vs. pelargonium
[21:57] How versatile are begonias?
[25:25] Caladiums—the up-and-coming plant
[31:50] Why Alyssum is a special plant!
[34:01] Find the perfect holiday gifts for gardeners and plant parents
[35:06] Hypoestes (the Polka Dot plant)
[38:15] Is gardening a budget hobby or not?
[40:04] Watch our plant swap next week!
[40:34] Where can you follow Janey on social media?

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For Janey's recommended houseguest plants and their proper winter care,

check out the full show notes and blog here!

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0:00.0	I bet you didn't know, and I say this because I didn't know, that you can get a bigger bang for your buck
0:05.1	by overwintering a lot of your garden plants, taking them out of the ground, bringing them indoors,
0:11.4	enjoying them throughout the winter, and then putting them back outside. With winter just around
0:16.1	the corner, a lot of us are looking to green up our indoors to survive a cold and dreary winter. And my
0:23.2	guest today has a lot of really fun ideas with how to do that. So welcome. Welcome to the Growing
0:34.8	Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants
0:38.2	successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in
0:43.3	our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of
0:48.8	Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, speaker, podcaster, and most importantly,
0:54.0	your new best plant
0:54.8	friend. On growing joy with plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening
0:59.4	tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.
1:02.6	Plant care is self-care. On growing joy.
1:11.7	Hello, plant friends.
1:13.0	I'm Maria.
1:13.9	I'm here to help you care for plants and grow joy.
1:16.1	And I'm so excited to be here with you today to talk about this fun topic with my plant
1:20.6	friend, Janie.
1:21.7	Before we dive in, I wanted to welcome our newest Patreon supporter, Julia B.
1:26.5	Welcome to the community of people supporting this podcast on Patreon.
1:30.2	We have different levels of Patreon that get you access to so many amazing things like bonus content, coaching with me.
1:38.1	You can literally ask me all the questions you want about your personal plan collection, merch, all sorts of stuff.
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