Thriving

If you give an aspiring plant lady a pothos cutting, she's going to want to root it and plant it. And if she pots it, it's obviously going to be a pink unicorn pot and she's going to sing "pink pony pothos" to it all summer, causing it to absolutely thrive. She's going to grow in her audacity and adopt many more plants along the way, until she realizes she may have been a little overconfident and she needs to figure out how to better take care of all 30+ of her leafy friends.

It's me. I'm the plant lady.

So I did what any over-achieving perfectionist would do – I made a book.

Not just any book, of course – a proper manual. Each of my 33 plant friends got their own dedicated info page – common and scientific names, native region, light and watering needs, a custom soil recipe and notes about acquisition, maintenance and care. Because if you're going to have 33 plants (and convince your husband that you can handle more), you should probably know a little about each one.

Then came the extras (because clearly this isn't all extra enough) – "Hello, My Name Is" nametags for each plant, color-coded with their watering category, naturally. Which meant the watering categories needed a chart, and the chart needed a home. And if you've already developed two different pest spray recipes, you may as well create custom logos and labels and recipe pages for them. You see where this is going...

The full tour is in the video below – all 33 plants with their nametags, a peek inside the book, the pest sprays, all of it.

Currently, thirty-one of them are thriving; the other two know what they did.