To Challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty, or for nostalgia.
Plantdad
To Be-leaf in myself.
Plantbaby
Finding Solace in Being a Plant Parent
When someone can’t control what’s going on outside, he or she will try to find comfort and distraction in what’s within themself control—even if they’re just simple houseplants.
Plant dad know the colloquial names of their sprouts as well as their Latin origins, which read like Harry Potter spells.
This tall, upright perennial is not just a mother-in-law’s tongue, it’s a sansevieria versus; a caterpillar fern is a polypodium formosana; a eucalyptus might as well be a wingardium leviosa.