Comments on: facing a changing world (plus the power of houseplants): garden trends report, with katie dubow https://awaytogarden.com/facing-a-changing-world-plus-the-power-of-houseplants-garden-trends-report-with-katie-dubow/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:50:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: Marie https://awaytogarden.com/facing-a-changing-world-plus-the-power-of-houseplants-garden-trends-report-with-katie-dubow/comment-page-1/#comment-1069792 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:50:55 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=46073#comment-1069792 I have always tried to include my children and now my nieces and nephews (and goodness! now the neighborhood children) in my gardening. When I moved to my new house, I asked my children what they wanted out of the garden – they wanted fruit. So, 2 pear, 2 cherry, 2 peaches, and a mulberry tree, blueberries and strawberries went into our large front yard garden (where most of our sun is). It’s a mix of everything – perennials and vegies are in the mix too. I burst with pride to say it: my 14 year old son has the gardening bug through his love of house plants and of course, critters that might live among the plants (he’s a frog, toad, snake and salamander boy). He used his own money and an unused fish tank to set up a vivarium, complete with many different house plants, two types of bugs to break down waste in his homemade growing medium and a baby crested gecko which is probably the most loved and pampered lizard in history. Anyway, amused that indoor plants are a “trend” but I will say my 14 year old is obsessed with indoor plants and sustainable plantings that I am working on outside – because of the critters. I will also say: With children, expose them to plants and they will come around. My older, self professed, non-plant daughter, who is now in college, just asked me for succulents for her college dorm window sill. Yeeesssss, I say wringing my hands. It is all going according to my plant obsessed plans.

]]> By: Sharon Gresk https://awaytogarden.com/facing-a-changing-world-plus-the-power-of-houseplants-garden-trends-report-with-katie-dubow/comment-page-1/#comment-1069732 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:27:34 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=46073#comment-1069732 Preparing for our annual Holiday Fair at our local church, I decided to use “Nature’s One-of-a-Kind” as my theme for my booth. One of the (many) directions I’ve chosen to go is to introduce Kokedama (Japanese for ‘moss ball’) with a variety of house plants, from Christmas cactus to spider plants! I’m delighted to read that houseplants are trending and hopefully our patrons will salute something new (at least to me!) Mine are displayed on shallow dishes, but I’m writing directions for folks to be able to suspend them in the air as they do in Japan, so there’s no need for window sills!

Many thanks for your wonderful pod casts and all the information you share that is so helpful!

]]> By: Mike Z https://awaytogarden.com/facing-a-changing-world-plus-the-power-of-houseplants-garden-trends-report-with-katie-dubow/comment-page-1/#comment-1069538 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 03:03:15 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=46073#comment-1069538 In reply to C. Hennes.

As someone working in the wastewater industry, I have to side with Margaret and Katie on this one. There are a number of talented and bright folks working as operators at wastewater treatment plants throughout the country that don’t have college degrees. They make great money doing it, and have outstanding insight into the data analysis that makes these places run well. I do happen to have a college degree, but I wish I had known of the opportunities available to me without one when I graduated high school.

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