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Style, Survive, and Thrive: How to Design with Plants at Home · Seated with Furniture Row

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  Hi, and welcome to the Seated podcast with Furniture Row.
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  I'm Jessa, creative director and design extraordinaire, and I'm
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  Barb, interior designer and buyer.
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  Hi everyone, welcome back to Seeded.
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  Today we're here with Cosi of only plants and he's going to
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  talk to us about the well-being and, and all of the things that
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  make living with plants just better for you and just a great
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  environment to have plants around you.
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  So talk to us about Only plants. Tell us who you are, how you
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  started. Only Plants.
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  OK, my name is Cosi. How do you spell that OSSII
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  love? That you're plant daddy cosy,
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  right? Yeah.
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  Is that how? You.
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  Yeah. Plant Daddy.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I started with House
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  plants about five years ago digitally.
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  I used to be a franchise consultant for RE/MAX and so I
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  used to coach franchise owners and one of the aspects of it was
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  brand development. When I built it, I chose a hobby
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  at the time. I had about 30 house plants at
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  the time. Five years ago?
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  Five years ago? How many do you have now?
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  I have nearly 400 house plants today Yes and so I started
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  creating content on house plants, implementing the same
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  strategy and I lot while I lost the bet and I had to start
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  introducing myself as plan Daddy coast.
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  So it's like, hey, TikTok, this is your favorite plan Dad plan
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  Daddy coast. So that started becoming my
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  Internet. Dad took all of these plants.
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  Yeah, 300 plants. Yeah.
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  So got into that and eventually it just kind of really stuck.
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  And then it became a whole different personality that
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  started off as something that I just enjoyed.
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  And so plants became a really, really big part of my life all
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  around outside of just in the design aspect and everything.
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  And so Fast forward I've done that, create content full time,
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  left corporate about four months ago.
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  About four months ago, I had a random DM from Finn.
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  Finn owns Finn Studios inside the Dairy Block at the free
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  market and he DM me and he said hey tell.
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  Us about dairy block for those that don't know what dairy
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  block? Is the Dairy Block is probably
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  one of the best, kind of one of the best blocks in Denver.
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  Yeah, I say it's one of the best blocks in Denver solely because
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  you have a mix of so many different types of businesses
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  where they're they're a lot of small businesses, a lot of just
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  creative, you know, restaurants like Brutal, for example, is a
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  Michelin star restaurant, but it's got this like dark vibe,
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  you know. Is that the place that has like
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  a Bigfoot in it? Like a big fake foot?
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  No no, what am I thinking of? Maybe a hotel or something.
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  The Maven might the Maven Hotel, but like for example, it's got
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  the Maven Hotel, which is probably I think like a top five
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  hotel in Denver, yeah, for example.
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  So it's just mix of all, a mix of all these unique businesses.
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  And then it is highly community based because they have the
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  alleyway. Typical Denver thing to have on
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  a Tuesday at 11 AM. You might just have a full blown
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  concert at the Dairy Block. So one of the reasons why when
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  Finn reached out to me, he said, hey, we have a spot inside the
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  Dairy Block that I think you may be a great fit for.
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  I no longer work in corporate and I'm in a yes era.
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  I kind of eliminated maybes from my decision making.
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  So it's either a yes or a no. So he reached out and he, you
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  know, I was like, why not? So I go in and he was like, we
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  have a, you know, a store for you look at it and it was a
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  window front and I was like, I love it, but it's too small.
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  What about that one? Is it available?
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  So there was one in the centre that was this all glass
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  surrounding. And I was like, I think I could
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  put a plant shop there. I've thought about having a
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  plant shop at some point and the one thing I used to say in real
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  estate and a lot of real estate people say is the best time to
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  buy a home is now. And so you kind of can implement
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  that in any aspect of your life is the best time to do anything
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  is right now today, so. 2026 is about now, yeah.
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  It's about making decisions and doing it right.
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  Yeah, Nike never lied when they said just do.
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  It. Yeah.
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  So I said why not and I committed to doing it as a pop
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  up, seeing what they feel like term wise.
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  It's for starting a business and never really a.
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  Business owner before. No, I was never a business
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  owner, but I was a business coach, Yeah.
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  So OK, I understand every single aspect of what it takes to run a
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  business. I also understand that running a
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  brick and mortar in 20252026 is a very scary thing it.
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  Can be, but I feel like people are coming out more.
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  They are. They're coming back.
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  Of course, they're still shopping online, but now they
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  want to be part of a community, they want to come into stores.
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  So I think it's the perfect time to start a plant shop.
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  It is, and I opened it in December.
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  I said why not? Ten days later I opened only
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  plants. It was How'd you?
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  Come up with that name. So the Brett and Paige, there's
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  botanically B on Instagram and TikTok and block blossom effect,
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  two of my plant besties. I thought about doing something
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  like standard plants, you know, and I'm like, hey, how do you
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  guys feel about standard plants? They're like, that's not you.
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  Yeah, you're not standard. Yeah, they're like, that's not
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  you. You're like.
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  Out-of-the-box thing. Yeah, they're like, that's not
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  you, you know, you have a lot of different aspects of what you
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  are in your plant, daddy. So maybe try to keep that
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  aspects of it. And I was like, I could do only
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  plants because I think a lot of times we try to shy away from
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  just like our creativity, who we are or not doing things in fear
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  of what other people might think and things like that.
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  So. Or we're like following what
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  others, what we think others want us to be.
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  And, and you know, when you are true to yourself, I mean, that
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  can create its own following just like with you, I mean, you
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  have like 250,000 followers on Instagram and that's huge.
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  How many do you have? Is it like that much?
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  I've got over 200,000 on both Instagram and TikTok.
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  That's amazing. I don't know the exact 2200 and
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  what I just kind of create and like the numbers come as they
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  come. They're you.
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  That's what's so great about it, and that's what people want.
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  They want authenticity. And anyway, go ahead.
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  Yeah, but yeah, no, I reached out to them and they're like no,
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  try again. And I was like how do y'all feel
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  about only plants? They're like yes, cuz you're a
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  plant daddy. It gives like, you know, it
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  gives like that type of vibe and you're able to stay true to
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  yourself. And I was like, OK, cool.
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  So I spend next 10 days just kind of putting it all together
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  and here we are today. The whole shop and everything.
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  The whole shop. How do you get that many plants
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  in there to sell that quickly? I'm unorthodox, unorthodox
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  marketing. I think building an online, I
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  already have an online persona works very well.
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  I think a lot of people, a lot of businesses today, some are
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  catching on, but traditional marketing is kind of out the
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  door. And so for so for me, I, you
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  mentioned this earlier, staying true to yourself, right?
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  And so one thing that I try to work on consistently is be my
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  true, genuine, authentic self and also allowing myself to open
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  up and walk people through what my life actually looks like or
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  what a process actually looks like.
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  And so I think sharing kind of the journey of from the moment I
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  picked up the keys and you know, what I'm doing, how I'm opening
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  the shop and my vision for it helped out a lot.
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  Which I normally, normally you just, you just see an after for
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  me, you don't see befores and afters or anything.
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  So that worked out very, very well.
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  And we're in a heavily digitally infested world today.
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  And so I went straight to TikTok and Instagram and hey, this is
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  what I'm doing. This is why I'm doing it.
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  Would love to have you guys all here.
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  And surely enough, you know, I think when you build a
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  community, they show up, right? And I'm trying to standardize,
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  you know, the plant shopping experience, right?
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  People come in, I'm like, you know, what did your grandma used
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  to have African violets on her window still?
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  She's like, actually, you know what, yes, she's like, yes, I'm
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  like, you know, take this with you, right?
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  And so a lot of it is because I grateful enough to be in a space
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  financially where the profitability side in this very
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  moment isn't important to me. It's the experience.
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  I don't have to spend marketing dollars.
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  So I'm able to provide people a completely different experience
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  that bring joy to them. Like if they're happy, I'm
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  happy. Yeah, people make me happy.
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  And plants. Make us happy.
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  Plants make people us happy. Well, the.
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  First time I met you only had a few plants.
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  Like hardly any. Yeah.
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  And now I have so many plants, not 300, but they make me happy.
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  Like every morning I go and look at my plants.
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  I open my windows up to them, so it is really transforming.
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  Anyway, go ahead. No, they, they really are
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  transforming and I get to witness that every single day.
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  And so I think that kind of allowed me to in December,
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  opening a plant shop in December, 6 months prior to I
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  looked in the plant shop business, did my research before
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  opening a plant shop, about 6-6 shops, plant shops closed half
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  in the prior year or half a year.
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  And I was like, well, you know, but.
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  You came at. It differently became a
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  different approach, you know, but the community and providing
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  people with that experience, you know, and they still get my
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  personality right and I don't run a corporate tight shift.
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  They get my personality. Daria, the store manager, she's
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  allowed to be her full authentic self, and it works really well
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  that way. And then there's the caveat of
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  why I really got into it. It's the community engagement
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  aspect of it, right? Yeah.
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  Tell us about that. The community engagement aspect
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  of it is one, enabling people to obviously being able to take
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  care of their plans. So I'm currently in the process
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  of moving, so a lot more of that stuff will be coming on, so stay
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  tuned. Like moving your home.
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  No, I'm moving the shop still inside the dairy block.
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  I'm basically tripling the size of it and making it up permanent
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  for at least the next couple years and finalizing everything
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  for it. And it allowed me to have the
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  community based aspect that enables people currently.
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  We'll do you know Plant bingo, for example.
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  Yeah, I saw that on your Instagram.
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  Yeah. What is that about?
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  Plant bingo is it's kind of how I give back.
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  It's one of the times where, you know, people are able to kind of
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  get, you know, your online plant daddy in person.
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  And so plant bingo came from kind of my vision of what kind
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  of experience do I want people to have right.
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  And I, I just turned 30 and so oh.
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  Yeah, happy birthday. It was like a couple days ago,
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  right? Happy birthday.
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  Thank you. And the traditional idea, not
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  maybe not traditional, but just like the nightlife scene, fun
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  every now and then, but not all the time finding different it's.
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  Expensive. It is, but my friends, for
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  example, they love game nights. I use I, I'm the hosting friend.
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  So they love game nights. So they come, they win all these
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  gifts, they win cash, they win drinks, they win whatever PR is
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  sent to me and things like that. And so I was like, what a better
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  way to kind of give back to people in a similar way.
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  So Plan Bingo allows me to bring completely different groups of
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  people who all love plants, who may never have had an experience
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  with plants, and who just wanted to do something different.
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  Yeah. Versus going to a bar.
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  Versus going to a bar and it's it's fun, there's a DJ, there's.
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  Is this at the shop plant? Bingo.
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  It's currently being held inside the space that I'm moving into.
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  OK, yeah. And so it's held in there.
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  Set the stage. Sorry to interrupt.
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  Yeah, but set the stage. Is it like tables and chairs?
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  Like how is it? No, it's family style.
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  It is family style. It's a glass Grove.
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  Imagine being in a glass Grove and you've got kind of just like
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  vintage Modern furniture and there's plants, there's plants
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  everywhere, but we also have like wine for people and things
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  like that. I have a full DJ who kind of
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  sets the tone and allows me Avery if Avery is my Co bingo
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  host and she owns the group chat Denver, so I'll get community
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  building. So she's empowers and enables a
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  lot of the women in Denver from individuals to, you know, women
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  owned businesses in Denver. So that's.
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  So, like, beyond just plans. Yeah, yeah, it's a community.
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  So we're trying to, you know, we're trying to build a
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  community of people who kind of all just want a place to be.
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  And so it's tight in there. You know, people are sitting,
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  you know, they're like all, there's like 4 people on like
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  one sofa bed and like they're all cozy.
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  They're all cozy. You know, one thing that I'll
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  always ask is, is there anybody new here?
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  Right. I just moved into the state now
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  they're able to mingle and they tell us a little bit about
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  themselves. They're able to mingle and talk
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  to everybody and everything. We'll have random dance offs and
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  I being somebody who used to be on stage talking and trying to
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  learn how to just navigate people, it makes it easy because
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  I can randomly have a dance off in the middle of plan bingo.
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  And instead of somebody wanting to plan because of bingo,
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  they're having a dance off. Or it might be like finish the
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  lyrics and you know, so I try to interrupt and bring a lot of
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  different personalities out and you know, so they can all engage
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  with it too. So and it's exciting that you
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  just watch people just like so happy.
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  And I get a lot of follow-ups. They're like, Oh my God, my plan
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  is thriving. And I never kept the plan alive
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  before. I know.
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  That's awesome. That is so wow.
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  You could even have plant bingo. I mean, if anybody's watching,
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  if you're not in Denver, you can always like have plant bingo at
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  your house. So OK, shifting gears just a
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  little bit. So you're moving into this new
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  spot, but you started with RE/MAX, you know, coaching them.
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  So you've, you've always been somewhat in home.
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  So talk to us about plants in your home and how that can
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  really transform your space. And I think we have pictures too
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  of your House, of your home that we can pull up here.
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  Yeah, when I first bought my house, I had your typical
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  millennial grey home. OK, I can't even imagine the
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  transformation within the last year.
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  At some point my house was completely just Gray and white
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  guys. But some plants.
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  No color. I had some plants because plants
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  were the only color I decided I wanted because I learned I
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  originally got into plants 'cause I was wanting to keep an
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  orchid alive and make an orchid bloom.
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  But I learned so much about all these other plants, and so I
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  knew a little bit about plants. I was in a plant expert.
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  How did you get a orchid to bloom a second time?
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  I've never. That has never happened with
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  mine. I give up.
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  I need your help. 1st I I've tried a few different methods
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  that have worked. Most of it is just keeping an
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  eye an eye on the roots and having it in orchid bark.
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  OK And when they turn silver you water them.
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  So when they turn silver, you literally soak them OK and then
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  you know, strain it and then do that basically on a weekly basis
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  or whenever the roots turn silver, they go back green.
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  The other way is just growing orchids in water.
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  No bark. No, no bark.
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  You can grow orchids in just water.
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  So taking it, taking it out of all the substrate it comes in
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  and just growing it in water whenever it blooms, just keep
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  the same consistent care. The more light you give them,
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  the better chances they also have.
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  Try and orchid again. You've got to have a little
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  patience though, yeah? I had about two years of
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  patience, and I'm like, I can't. This thing is not blooming.
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  I'm like, enough of that. And then it makes me sad because
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  those beautiful blooms are no longer there.
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  Yeah. It's patience again.
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  Poor kids teach you a lot of patience, and it's doing.
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  Soda kids. Seriously.
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  I don't have none of those yet, but I think my plants are my
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  plants and my puppies are my kids, so they choose me.
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  A lot of patience, too, yeah. So anyway, back to your Gray
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  millennial house it was. All Gray, it was all millennial
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  plants were the That's the only color I wanted.
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  And I loved it because it brought some life to it.
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  Throughout the pandemic, real estate got really, really busy.
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  And for what I did, one hour calls turned into like 3 hour
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  calls. And I used to be somebody who
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  would take a lot of walks and I couldn't really do things like
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  that. And it became really, really
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  stressful. Oddly enough, sometimes I will
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  find like 5 minutes and I will go water my plants and they
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  actually started becoming more of like a reset for me, right?
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  Or you wake up and you're like, I'm not feeling today and then
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  you see it like new growth and I'm like, wow, that made me feel
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  really good. And then I'm starting to look at
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  a plants in a whole complete different way.
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  Eventually plants also taught, you know, I start developing
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  almost a relationship with my plants where I'm like, this
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  plant makes me feel a certain way.
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  I've watched this plant go through this, through that,
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  through that, or I love how in my corners I only want large
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  plants. In the corners of the room like
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  trees. Trees.
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  Correct. So and you're right and I
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  learned that some plants I never want to get big so I'm always
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  printing them because they look really good on the coffee table.
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  And I'm like because I travel 3 to 4 * a month, I've coming home
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  to just what I had at that time was really nice because I live
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  in hotels. So it was nice coming to a home,
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  but it was never really my home, it was never really me.
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  They should like for hotels, you know how you can check into some
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  hotels and they're like, would you like a fish, you know, to
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  keep you company? They should do that with plants.
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  Yes, yes, one of my should. Start that.
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  The The Maven Hotel might have something like that you.
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  Know right now. All right, all right.
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  So, yeah, but I started kind of just plants started teaching me
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  that I really don't have myself in my home.
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  Like my home is almost a a hotel with some plants.
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  So a year ago I fully just wanted to make my house me.
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  So a lot of different aspects of me.
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  So it's more Moody, it's tighter, you know, I have tan
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  wall. I have like brown, tan walls,
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  but it works. I have green checkered walls and
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  it works. And then even from like the
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  furniture, right? I love to wind down.
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  And it's like, what kind of couch could I have that I can
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  wind down? What kind of couch could I have
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  that when my friends come over all like 8 of us can watch a
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  movie on the same couch, right? What kind of I, I changed my
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  guest bedroom. I got rid of my guest bedroom
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  bed. What kind of and I turned it
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  into. Is that the plant room?
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  Is that the one with the Durango in it?
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  The Durango leather sofa. So I had a search for the
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  perfect couch to fit in that room that I can still have a
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  plant room that's just oh look, jungle.
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  Yeah, jungle. But my friend, like if I have a
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  guest, all I've got to do is pull it up and they're like in a
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  jungle haven you've got. You got the one that's the same
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  brain, yes. So it's still a guest room and
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  they're like the 1st guest. They're like, Oh my God, I, I
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  can breathe in here. It feels just like so
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  therapeutic. And I have like a vintage, I
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  have a vintage record player in there for them.
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  No TV in there. I'm like, this is like a
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  therapeutic. So they have like a tea set in
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  there, just like all these different things with all these
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  plants. Sometimes I sleep in there
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  instead of my own bedroom because I'm like, this is just
• 21:31
  like a Zen, you know, I can go in there, build a Lego set and
• 21:35
  just like feel. Feel the energy.
• 21:37
  Of the energy and the color complements everything very you
• 21:41
  know the brown complements all the green very well.
• 21:44
  So I had to Start learning about different color tones.
• 21:47
  So I have about four different color tones in my house and I
• 21:49
  try to keep to like those four or per room and things like
• 21:54
  that. So did that and then all the way
• 21:56
  to like my puppies. My puppies have their own, you
• 21:59
  know, they take up Myspace, right?
• 22:01
  They're they think they're lap dogs, so they think they take up
• 22:03
  a lot of Myspace. So right there you'll see like
• 22:06
  they even have I'm like, I'm like all Oh, they need a.
• 22:09
  Bed they need. I love those little dog beds.
• 22:12
  I bet they're even comfortable if you wanted to sit on it
• 22:14
  yourself. Have you sat on those?
• 22:16
  Yes. OK yes I'm like how do y'all
• 22:17
  like it? I love it and those can even
• 22:22
  turn around like this one is the luscious how you have that like
• 22:25
  turned around facing. Same with their little dog beds.
• 22:29
  Is my house never looks the same.
• 22:31
  My friends come over there like where's so just about every
• 22:35
  other week my house changes around a lot.
• 22:37
  So sometimes those are there downstairs.
• 22:39
  Sometimes they're up in the plant room and they're they love
• 22:43
  plants. They're like plants are part of
• 22:45
  their home. So they're like always in
• 22:46
  plants, but they not like they're like what kind of plan
• 22:49
  this ones new, right? They like stroke their head
• 22:51
  through it and everything. But sometimes they're in my
• 22:54
  bedroom and I'm they're so mobile, kind of just like my
• 22:57
  couches. So I'm able to move them around
• 23:00
  so nicely where they're still everything has to be anything
• 23:03
  that comes into my house. Has to be aesthetic.
• 23:05
  Aesthetically pleasing, yeah, but also kind of simple.
• 23:09
  Simple, modern. But it's got a character to it,
• 23:12
  so it's really nice. And people come in, they're
• 23:14
  like, Oh my God, your dogs have couches, Of course, Yes, of.
• 23:17
  Course they do, and they look like I love those they're.
• 23:21
  Like a mini like of the sectional.
• 23:24
  Yeah, yeah. I think is that the luscious
• 23:27
  that you have? Which color is that?
• 23:29
  The. The Gray color, I love that
• 23:31
  because you can move it around and like, I love this.
• 23:34
  Rearrange it, however, yeah. So is that what you're always
• 23:38
  rearranging too? Is the luscious.
• 23:40
  Yes. So the luscious, I'm always just
• 23:42
  rearranging. So sometimes this is 1 long
• 23:45
  piece, sometimes it's 2:00 and 2:00 here, sometimes it's like 3
• 23:49
  here, 1 here. I can do whatever I want with it
• 23:52
  and it's very, very nice. Yeah, I like that.
• 23:55
  I like that it's, you know, movable and you can rearrange it
• 23:58
  to different layouts in that particular room.
• 24:03
  What about somebody? That's how would you say
• 24:07
  somebody that's living in an apartment that can't really like
• 24:10
  that one picture that you had of the Durango sofa with your plant
• 24:14
  wall and shelves. If they're not allowed to like
• 24:17
  hang shelves on the walls? Like what would you tell someone
• 24:21
  that's living in an apartment or a place that they can't put
• 24:24
  holes in the wall? Like how do you live with plants
• 24:26
  and have a lot of plants without?
• 24:29
  Yeah, you can do damaging walls a lot of times.
• 24:31
  I see so many people almost just put plants like they have like a
• 24:38
  plant wall or like a plant corner and they just like shove
• 24:40
  everything in there. I used to be one of those people
• 24:42
  until I started learning how to style with plants and
• 24:46
  everything. And so if you're in an apartment
• 24:48
  space, IA 100% think utilizing the current furniture that you
• 24:53
  have, you could or being a little bit creative and
• 24:57
  utilizing different ways of style and decorate.
• 25:00
  You can you know, we're right here, right now.
• 25:02
  I can put a stack of 10 to 12 books here and put a plant on
• 25:06
  there. Sure.
• 25:07
  Right. And I can use a coffee table you
• 25:09
  can use, you know, a dresser you can use.
• 25:13
  I use my fridge oddly. You put them on top.
• 25:16
  Yeah, I'll put them on top and they just like flow from the
• 25:19
  bottom. Yeah, I love.
• 25:20
  That so I think for somebody who's in an apartment finding
• 25:23
  different ledges or different things that you can kind of just
• 25:26
  like add to right Or if you know you have an island, you can, you
• 25:31
  know, put some sort of board on there at a plant or add acute
• 25:37
  propagation stand and just being creative and styling them in
• 25:43
  with all your other decor. Yeah, right.
• 25:46
  So I'm like a three piece decoration type of person and so
• 25:51
  you can. Three's a good number.
• 25:53
  We were talking to a gal the other day that that's how she
• 25:56
  comes up with colors and and rooms as she goes with three
• 25:59
  colors. So yeah, same with the three.
• 26:02
  Three, yeah. So you can go a plant, some
• 26:05
  piece of like a piece of art decoration, A vase or something
• 26:09
  like that. And you know, it'll almost
• 26:11
  always flow a clock pairing it with pairing it with something.
• 26:16
  So it's not just like there and it's more decoration.
• 26:20
  So I would 100%. What about like, do you remember
• 26:24
  when we were at the Fashion Denver Fashion Week and we have
• 26:27
  those shelves? I think they were the leaning
• 26:29
  shells. I don't know if we have a
• 26:30
  picture of that or not, but I loved how that was staged, like
• 26:34
  with all of the plants. So what do you think of that for
• 26:38
  an apartment? I love, I love that I own my
• 26:41
  home, so I drilled everything. I don't care.
• 26:44
  One day they may fall. So no, they probably won't.
• 26:48
  But I love shelves solely because I can optimize.
• 26:54
  So whether they're standing shelves, whether they're
• 26:57
  standalone shelves, whether they're mounted shelves, it
• 27:00
  allows you to do anything I can have.
• 27:02
  You can have all plans. You can have pieces and parts of
• 27:05
  yourself, right? So the character traits, the
• 27:08
  thing you know, if you're a traveler and you're collecting
• 27:11
  items, you can design those. In.
• 27:15
  With the plants, so I always think a mix of plants on those
• 27:18
  shelves along with other, you know, art pieces of yourself
• 27:23
  that make your home, your home work very well.
• 27:27
  And you can also have one that's designated for plants as yes,
• 27:33
  I've seen for me where I have full ones, but I also have
• 27:36
  shelves in that room that have, you know, clogs.
• 27:39
  They have plant Lego sets, they have watering cans as decor and
• 27:45
  things like that. Yeah, there's some beautiful, I
• 27:47
  think you have like a copper or is it silver?
• 27:50
  That is a beautiful watering can.
• 27:53
  I don't know where you got that. I have no idea.
• 27:55
  It was a gift. Actually, it was a gift, yeah.
• 27:57
  So you really can decorate with those things around.
• 28:01
  And you know, another thing I like too, like you're saying you
• 28:04
  could put it on your island or on a coffee table, like here is
• 28:08
  putting a tray under it. But I think that always looks
• 28:12
  nice and it contains it. So if you're like me and you
• 28:16
  over water something and it gets all over the place, the tray
• 28:22
  helps with that. But OK, I want to go back.
• 28:25
  I don't mean to jump back, but I want to talk about the room that
• 28:28
  your guests stay in that sometimes you stay in.
• 28:31
  I want you to tell us more about that.
• 28:33
  For anybody that's looking at doing a guest room, it doesn't
• 28:37
  necessarily have to have a bed in there.
• 28:40
  It could be a sofa bed, correct? Like what you have?
• 28:42
  So I probably should be in like a four or five bedroom house.
• 28:46
  OK, But I feel and I've, I almost bought one, but I was
• 28:50
  like, I feel like I'm going to be lonely because it's I'm
• 28:53
  single. It's just me.
• 28:54
  I feel like I would be lonely with just like so much space.
• 28:57
  But sometimes I'm like I need more room because I live with so
• 29:01
  many plans and I have two big dogs.
• 29:04
  But a 2 bedroom works fine for me.
• 29:07
  My friends love to come over, my family love loves to come over
• 29:10
  and I work from home and I gained I played Nintendo Switch
• 29:15
  online. I enter like random super smash
• 29:18
  borough tournaments and stuff like that.
• 29:20
  So I'm like I need like a work like I need an office I need.
• 29:23
  A workspace, a fun place and I. Need a guest room, how do I do
• 29:26
  this? So I got in my guest room and
• 29:29
  I'm like studio, a plant in studio almost.
• 29:33
  I have floating shelves in there that I can use as a desk and
• 29:36
  workstation. I have a couch that I can just
• 29:38
  go in there, chill. I can put a coffee table in
• 29:41
  there, build a Lego set, have some tea time, read a book, just
• 29:46
  relax. I can take the coffee table out
• 29:49
  or move it somewhere, pull the couch out and I'm having I have
• 29:54
  a guest coming. Hey, we're coming over.
• 29:56
  It's comfortable. Too, It's very comfortable.
• 29:58
  It's like I mentioned, I thought I had a comfortable bed and I go
• 30:02
  sleep in my guest bedroom, my plant room, my studio sometimes.
• 30:05
  And so I think there's a lot of different uses for uses for a
• 30:12
  guest room. It doesn't always have to be a
• 30:14
  guest room. You can make it into a lot of
• 30:16
  different things if you learn how to optimize all of that
• 30:20
  stuff cuz I shoot a lot in there.
• 30:22
  In that room. You may not be able to, I have,
• 30:25
  you know, I have a lot of like shooting gear in there and some
• 30:28
  of them are staged accordingly. The lighting, the lamps, all
• 30:31
  those things have to kind of like correlate.
• 30:34
  And then I can go in there and take a call.
• 30:35
  I can work and I can do a lot of things, but that couch
• 30:39
  specifically allows me to have all of that and it just stays
• 30:46
  there, so. Well, and we're seeing that too,
• 30:49
  like furniture that does double duty.
• 30:52
  It doesn't have to be, just think outside of the box.
• 30:55
  It doesn't have to be exactly like that bookshelf for books.
• 30:59
  It could be a plant stand. It could be, you know, the
• 31:03
  coffee station, a guest bedroom. Like we were saying, you can put
• 31:08
  a sofa in there and have a bed. That's so I just want everybody
• 31:13
  to start thinking outside the box like how can you decorate
• 31:17
  your home, get the things that you need in there and you know,
• 31:20
  have things that are dual purpose 100.
• 31:24
  Percent yeah. And I think a lot of times we're
• 31:28
  we're in a very trendy phase where you see everybody has the
• 31:32
  same lamps, everybody has the same couch, everybody has the
• 31:36
  same no, because I it's my space, it's my space.
• 31:42
  And at some point I was the in the training space and I'm like,
• 31:45
  this doesn't feel like home. So now if I want an organized
• 31:48
  chaos, I'm going to live in an organized chaos.
• 31:52
  But I used to be a minimalist and I can still like curate A
• 31:56
  minimalist organized chaos vibe in my space depending on how I
• 32:00
  lay my space out by having dual purpose, you know, not even dual
• 32:05
  multi purpose furniture, right? I can my couch can just be a
• 32:09
  couch or it could be a bed or it could be a plant stand.
• 32:15
  I the backboard of it, the backboard of it I put I put
• 32:19
  plants on there, right. And sometimes on the on the what
• 32:23
  are the armrests? Yeah, sometimes on the armrests
• 32:26
  I put a plant wide. And.
• 32:28
  I could put a plant on there so I can do that with the
• 32:32
  furniture, right? Just like my sectional, I can
• 32:37
  make it cozy in there, I can make it loungey in there, I can
• 32:41
  make it. That's what's so.
• 32:43
  Great about. Those those types of sofas that
• 32:47
  you can like put different pieces together and, you know,
• 32:51
  create different setups. What word am I looking for?
• 32:56
  It's not transformer furniture, but it's what's that chameleon
• 33:01
  furniture? That's what we like to call it.
• 33:02
  So, yeah. So let's talk about like, and we
• 33:08
  kind of have talked about it in a roundabout way, but by
• 33:10
  affiliate design, I mean that's like something that's happening
• 33:15
  everywhere right now with there's a hotel down in Denver
• 33:18
  that that's their whole concept. So tell us about that.
• 33:24
  In what? Aspect particularly, that's a
• 33:26
  good question, just how people are bringing in the, you know,
• 33:31
  natural plants, things of nature into their home and living
• 33:37
  within, you know, their space with nature all around.
• 33:41
  I think that's a very almost a people want to feel comfortable.
• 33:47
  I think primarily it's a comfort thing.
• 33:49
  It's an aesthetic thing. It's not just a trendy thing,
• 33:53
  it's not a it's. Not a trendy, it's not a trendy
• 33:56
  thing. I think it's become more so
• 33:57
  becoming a thing, especially for travelers.
• 34:00
  For example, I stay at the one hotels in the states that they
• 34:05
  have them in because all their all their plants are real.
• 34:09
  There are are Moss. Walls and you know.
• 34:13
  They have a lot of just earthy tone things embedded in them.
• 34:17
  You go and look for those types of hotels just.
• 34:20
  Particularly and so I think it brings a lot of just a lot of
• 34:28
  warmth and I think it takes away the the boring, the dull aspect
• 34:34
  of hotels or even your living space because it brings a lot of
• 34:38
  life to it. It brings a lot of energy and
• 34:41
  positive energy at that. And I think it makes people feel
• 34:45
  comfortable. I think it relaxes people.
• 34:48
  Often times only being a plant shop owner, I get to understand
• 34:51
  why people get plans, right? The questions that they ask me
• 34:55
  that, you know, does this purify my air right?
• 34:57
  So going into a space and you see a snake plant or you see a
• 35:01
  piece, you're like, oh, my space is purified.
• 35:06
  Mind you, you probably. Do all plants purify the?
• 35:09
  Not all plants. Some plants don't, but I think
• 35:13
  they purify it. It's a psychological.
• 35:18
  It is a psychological things because more often than not you
• 35:20
  need a lot of those plants for them to actually be productive
• 35:25
  and fully purify the air that you have.
• 35:29
  But I have seen a lot more hotels kind of do things.
• 35:32
  Like embracing that. And some hotels, some hotels do
• 35:36
  have the opportunity for you to ask for a plant.
• 35:40
  I love that. You know, if you came in, I
• 35:41
  wouldn't. Ask for a plant.
• 35:42
  The next hotel. Yeah, I'm just going to see what
• 35:45
  they come up with. Like, do they have?
• 35:49
  Yeah. And so I think it's, I think
• 35:51
  it's nice because I think it makes people feel like home.
• 35:54
  I think it brings, I think plants bring life, then they
• 35:57
  bring a lot of life to spaces. And so it's really nice seeing a
• 36:01
  lot of that in a lot of spaces or even in retail spaces.
• 36:04
  I went to have breakfast the other day and I see a pothos
• 36:07
  wall. What is that?
• 36:08
  A pothos wall, it's like a full wall and they just like line
• 36:12
  all. It's like probably over 300 like
• 36:14
  4 inch pothos inside of like the wall.
• 36:19
  And it's amazing that for me, it makes me I'm like anywhere I go,
• 36:24
  I always pay attention to plants, right?
• 36:26
  And I'm like, that shouldn't be. I don't love that fake plant,
• 36:29
  right? And I see real plants and it
• 36:31
  makes me so happy and so jazzed. I was in a coffee shop in
• 36:36
  Minnesota. It was last last summer and it
• 36:39
  was this old warehouse that they turned into a coffee shop and it
• 36:43
  was, first of all, it was delicious.
• 36:44
  I don't remember the name of it, but if anybody's watching or
• 36:47
  listening to this, they might know.
• 36:49
  But they had really high ceilings and then all these
• 36:53
  little setups like things like this, little leather chairs and
• 36:57
  leather sofas. And, you know, it's just very
• 37:00
  like relaxed. And they had plants everywhere.
• 37:03
  There was a wall that was the whole wall was plants.
• 37:06
  Yeah. It was just a really great
• 37:08
  feeling. I never wanted to leave.
• 37:12
  But it makes me feel. I think it's plants create like
• 37:16
  a very cozy, very cozy, earthy and they kind of just like allow
• 37:21
  you to like be grounded and being grounded in the space that
• 37:25
  you're in and not just being it's not too staged, right?
• 37:30
  Plants make you know they're just like it's.
• 37:34
  It's they add a softness to the space.
• 37:36
  I mean, if you were we just added a few real ones in here.
• 37:39
  We actually have a fake one Cosi that's like a.
• 37:42
  Fake. We'll we'll work.
• 37:43
  We'll just pretend. We'll deal with it.
• 37:45
  Yeah, but we took some of our fake plants out and put real in
• 37:49
  today and it does just bring a different life to it.
• 37:53
  So what about, you know, if, if you're starting from zero, like
• 37:58
  you just moved into your first place, whether it's an apartment
• 38:01
  or your first house or condo and you don't have a, a plant
• 38:07
  insight, like where would you tell the tell somebody to start
• 38:10
  like it if they just don't know much?
• 38:12
  About if you don't. Care of plants.
• 38:14
  Much about plants I think all thumbs are green OK right.
• 38:18
  It's just a little learning curve.
• 38:19
  It's it's a little learning curve.
• 38:20
  You got to give it a try. I would say for starters, a
• 38:25
  snake plant you. Are those those ones that are
• 38:29
  like tall? Snake plants are very low
• 38:32
  maintenance plants. They tolerate low light very
• 38:35
  well. They tolerate bright light.
• 38:37
  They thrive in bright light, but they will tolerate low light
• 38:40
  and. Like where would you go low
• 38:42
  light? Would that be like a bathroom
• 38:45
  that doesn't have a window in? It or a window, a corner that
• 38:49
  doesn't get, you know, your morning EE sun or South light or
• 38:55
  anything like that. And so anywhere that really
• 38:58
  doesn't get light, like your basement for example, a snake
• 39:01
  plant will be great because it tolerates it.
• 39:03
  It just grows a little bit slower.
• 39:05
  And you water them about once a month, right?
• 39:07
  So they do. That's pretty easy.
• 39:08
  They do well off of neglect. ZZ plants are pretty similar.
• 39:12
  What is it called? AZ Plant.
• 39:14
  What is that? AZ plant is and they come in a
• 39:18
  few, they come in a chameleon, so they're green and they kind
• 39:22
  of just stem with just like they're more.
• 39:25
  Maybe we can put a picture of that on there?
• 39:26
  They're more rub, they're more rubbery, but they also tolerate
• 39:30
  low light very well. They're very easy, tolerate a
• 39:33
  lot of highlights. So I would say snake plants, ZZ
• 39:36
  plants, the pothos, and like the most plants in the Philodendron
• 39:40
  family, work really well. And then you can go like your
• 39:45
  monsters or your standard ones. Hoyas, I would say.
• 39:49
  Hoyas are you never. Heard of that?
• 39:51
  Hoyas are going to be more rubbery.
• 39:52
  They're slower growers so you don't have to worry about them
• 39:56
  taking over your space or anything they can.
• 39:59
  They normally love to dry out between watering and so they're
• 40:03
  going to be OK with neglect. So I would say hoyas pileas.
• 40:08
  And paleas are one of my favorite home decor type of
• 40:11
  plants. I need to see what these are.
• 40:13
  We've got to find pictures. Of them and put them.
• 40:16
  On our podcast. Here.
• 40:17
  So paleas I think are going to be really cute.
• 40:20
  They're really cute. They add a little bit of
• 40:23
  character. Are they small?
• 40:24
  They're small, OK, so they're. Cute.
• 40:26
  Like in a bookshelf? Yeah.
• 40:28
  In table? A night stand, Yes.
• 40:30
  OK. Yeah.
• 40:31
  So you can style them very easy and.
• 40:35
  I think that was the thing for me is I need those plants
• 40:39
  because I do have areas in my home that doesn't, you know, I
• 40:43
  have windows, but you know, it's like a night stand next to my
• 40:46
  bed. The window's not right there.
• 40:49
  So maybe one of those plants could go on my night stand. 100%
• 40:53
  there's a lot more plants that at the plant shop I carry
• 40:58
  probably 90% of plant, 90% of the plants that I carry in there
• 41:04
  are for the everyday people, whether they're plant people,
• 41:07
  whether they're never have had a plant because I do think plants
• 41:12
  should be accessible to everybody, right.
• 41:14
  So I more so have, I've spent thousands of dollars on a
• 41:18
  singular plant before and some, some of those plants are no
• 41:23
  longer with me, right. And so more of the rare plants,
• 41:28
  the variegated plants are actually, they actually lack the
• 41:32
  like they, they're deficient, they lack chlorophyll.
• 41:36
  So rare plants are rare plants are actually deficient plants
• 41:40
  because they lack chlorophyll. And so I try to keep them out of
• 41:44
  the shop because they're the most expensive and they're
• 41:48
  they're the first ones to go. Yeah, they're a little harder to
• 41:50
  care for, one expert. Correct.
• 41:53
  So most plants I would say just about anybody can have.
• 41:57
  They just need, you know, if you're a visual learn, if you're
• 42:00
  a visual learner and you're a touch type of person, you can
• 42:04
  keep majority plants alive if you can tell what a yellow leaf
• 42:08
  is a brown leaf is. That's not good.
• 42:12
  Right. Not all.
• 42:13
  It's not always a bad thing. But if your plants are wilted,
• 42:16
  right? If they're wilted, they probably
• 42:18
  just need some water. So if you can visually see that
• 42:20
  like, hey, my leaves are getting wilted, just water it right.
• 42:24
  And if you can look at your soil and touch your soil and you're
• 42:28
  like, wow, that's kind of crunchy.
• 42:30
  That's water it. So I think it's really and.
• 42:35
  Drainage isn't that. Important.
• 42:37
  Yeah, drainage is important and so making sure you have a
• 42:40
  nursery. I try to keep all my plants in a
• 42:43
  nursery pot into a decorative pot.
• 42:45
  OK, so always having that. That way they're able to fully
• 42:49
  drain. Is the nursery pot the one that
• 42:51
  comes in like the plastic and then you drop that into a
• 42:54
  decorative pot? Yes.
• 42:55
  OK, yeah, so I always do that if you have less than 30 plants.
• 42:59
  I love running most of I water most of my plants that are
• 43:05
  downstairs because my downstairs is probably a little bit more
• 43:08
  plants than the average person, but it's very minimal.
• 43:11
  Still very minimal. I water majority of those in the
• 43:14
  sink because I can just take them out of the nursery pot.
• 43:18
  Put them in the sink. Put them in the sink, water
• 43:19
  them, leave them for 30 minutes, an hour, they're fully strained.
• 43:24
  And then I just put them right back into where they need to go.
• 43:27
  And so when people are, how much should I water it?
• 43:30
  You can water a plant for three hours straight as long as it has
• 43:35
  drainage. Yeah.
• 43:36
  And it's not just sitting in the water.
• 43:38
  I mean, 'cause they are in nature and it's raining on them
• 43:42
  in nature, so. But they have drainage, right?
• 43:44
  Unless it's a flood. Yeah, exactly.
• 43:46
  Yeah, I love that. So you, you know, you just moved
• 43:52
  into this new place. Not you.
• 43:54
  I'm just talking about in general, people are moving in.
• 43:56
  So things that they can do is these low key plants that don't
• 44:01
  require a lot of upkeep and don't don't really require like
• 44:07
  a lot of knowledge of how to care for them.
• 44:10
  Yeah. And most plants, I think most
• 44:12
  plants, if you can thoroughly water once a month.
• 44:16
  No, sorry if you can full thoroughly water once every
• 44:21
  week. Yes.
• 44:23
  Allow them to drain, give them moderate light.
• 44:26
  Most plants will be good. Pretty good like.
• 44:28
  Moderate light water once a week.
• 44:31
  Leave them alone. And they're fine.
• 44:33
  Yeah, I like that, being able to have plants in my house.
• 44:41
  I only have plants like that are on either my kitchen window sill
• 44:47
  or on my kitchen counter because of the light.
• 44:50
  And then I have this, it's like a little bar cart and I've put
• 44:54
  all my other plants on there and I pushed that in front of my
• 44:57
  window. But you've given me a lot of
• 45:00
  hope. Like I'm going to start adding
• 45:01
  plants to my rooms without so much light.
• 45:04
  Can you kind of plant thrive like in a bathroom that has no
• 45:08
  natural light? Or do you have to have natural
• 45:10
  lights? Somewhere you don't have to have
• 45:11
  natural lights you can use. I started putting grow lights
• 45:15
  into lamps, for example like a decorative lamp and I'll just
• 45:18
  change the bulb to a grow light, right?
• 45:21
  So if. You so like a lamp like this,
• 45:23
  you can put a. Correct.
• 45:24
  So something like that, I will put a grow light into it instead
• 45:28
  to give it a little bit of light.
• 45:30
  If it's a low light tolerant plant, it'll be fine.
• 45:32
  OK, It's just going to grow a little bit slower so you 100%
• 45:38
  can. I love that we just have to make
• 45:40
  sure it's not something that needs that.
• 45:43
  Needs full sun. Full sun, like anything
• 45:45
  variegated, anytime you see color in a plant, anything
• 45:48
  outside of green, for example, if it has a lot of white
• 45:51
  variegation or pink variegation or yellow variegation, you
• 45:54
  should not keep it in. You should not keep it in a low
• 45:58
  light environment. OK.
• 46:00
  It needs full sun. It needs a lot of sun, Yeah.
• 46:03
  This may sound like kind of a crazy question, but I'm going to
• 46:06
  ask it. Are flowering plant or flower
• 46:12
  flowers? Are those a plant or?
• 46:16
  Flowers are plants because they are plants that flower.
• 46:20
  OK, got. It OK, you know, most flowers
• 46:25
  come from a plant that flower like you look at a rose for
• 46:29
  example. So that's a point you're going
• 46:30
  to see a plant before you see the flowers indoors.
• 46:33
  For example, you have the peace Lily that flowers.
• 46:37
  You have aglonema is that flower.
• 46:40
  You've got that Ring of Fire for example.
• 46:44
  Not often, but eventually it will flower.
• 46:46
  That's. Going to have a flower.
• 46:48
  Most I've. Not seen that yet.
• 46:50
  Most plants do flower OK. Most plants do flower they just
• 46:54
  have to be in the right environment because house plants
• 46:57
  now have to re adapt to being in a home and not in nature.
• 47:02
  Most of them won't flower or you won't see most of them flower
• 47:05
  because they're not thriving out in nature.
• 47:08
  But if you are able to you know most plenty people you know
• 47:11
  you'll see. Oh my God my Hoya just bloomed
• 47:14
  right and they're flowering. Or Alocasia.
• 47:17
  My calathea just bloomed. Most plants flower just not in
• 47:23
  homes. So I will 100% say plants are,
• 47:27
  well, flowers are plants because they bloom from plants.
• 47:32
  Interesting. I'm glad that you answered that
• 47:35
  one because I I didn't know. I had no idea.
• 47:38
  The plant behind you. That one.
• 47:41
  I was surprised when I saw it had a flower.
• 47:44
  Yeah. Yeah, and that in springtime,
• 47:47
  most plants are going to bloom in springtime too.
• 47:50
  So you'll probably see a lot more blooming plants around this
• 47:54
  time getting on on the counters. Whether you're at your local
• 47:58
  Home Depot or you're at your Walmart or you're at your local
• 48:02
  plant shop, you're going to start seeing a lot more color
• 48:05
  because this is right about the time where people just want so
• 48:08
  much color, so many blooms within their house, whether it's
• 48:12
  on their patio, outside in their home or whether they're
• 48:15
  gardeners and they're starting to garden again.
• 48:18
  So you're going to start seeing a lot more colors.
• 48:20
  It's getting warmer, there's more, I love it, there's more
• 48:23
  light. So more you're gonna see just
• 48:27
  more plants bloom in general. Yeah, yeah, I love spring.
• 48:30
  What's your favorite season? My favorite season is spring,
• 48:36
  but I also love winter. Really.
• 48:40
  Yes, so I love, I love. Winter.
• 48:43
  I love winter because I love winding down and I'm like a very
• 48:47
  cozy person. Yeah.
• 48:48
  And winter allows me. Yeah, winter allows winters in
• 48:51
  Colorado. I, let me rephrase that because
• 48:54
  I spent a lot of time in the Midwest.
• 48:55
  I don't enjoy the Midwest. I don't enjoy.
• 48:58
  Temperatures. Yes, I don't enjoy the Midwest
• 49:01
  winter, but I love Colorado winters.
• 49:03
  I'm still allowed. I still get a lot of sun and but
• 49:07
  I can be so nice. About being here, Maybe we
• 49:10
  shouldn't tell people that, but there's like over 300 days of
• 49:15
  sunshine. I mean, my goodness.
• 49:18
  Yeah, so I would say spring, yeah.
• 49:19
  So I would say spring because it's moderate.
• 49:21
  It's it's nice, but it's not too hot.
• 49:24
  It's you can still take the chilly days.
• 49:27
  And then winters, the winters here are still not extreme.
• 49:30
  Yeah, right. And I can go snowboarding, come
• 49:33
  home and I can be walking my dogs at Wash Park and it's not
• 49:37
  in shorts all in the same day. So yeah.
• 49:40
  Yeah, I love spring. I think that's my favorite.
• 49:44
  And then I love fall. Fall.
• 49:47
  I love the changing of the leaves and so nice.
• 49:50
  Do you also do plant like yard plants?
• 49:54
  Are you only indoor plants? Oddly, I did a little switch up
• 49:59
  this year. OK.
• 50:01
  I normally go to plant con. What is Plant Con?
• 50:06
  So there's. Is it kind of like Comic Con?
• 50:09
  Only? Yes.
• 50:10
  Plants so and Kenny the president and founder of it does
• 50:13
  an amazing job and so it's becoming very popular.
• 50:17
  They just got done with one in LA OK is.
• 50:19
  It always traveling to different places.
• 50:21
  Yes, some places like Houston and Dallas, Orlando, some places
• 50:26
  are kind of set now. They're branched, so I think
• 50:29
  they're five years strong now. So they're branching into
• 50:31
  different markets. And so I normally go to Plant
• 50:35
  con. So they have one in LA that I
• 50:37
  was going to go to. I was also invited to speak at
• 50:40
  the National Western Flower and Garden Show in Seattle this
• 50:44
  year, so about two months ago. And I was like, you know what,
• 50:47
  it's time for change because I always go to plant con and I'm
• 50:50
  not familiar with outdoor plants and gardening.
• 50:54
  And they still have a House plan aspect of it.
• 50:56
  So I did partake in that. But I went and I brought back
• 51:00
  some seeds. Some some of them I have no idea
• 51:02
  what they are flowering seeds. So my garage right now is full
• 51:07
  of a lot of just like soil, bark, outdoor stuff.
• 51:12
  I don't I live in a town home so my yard is managed by my HOA.
• 51:17
  But I'm going to try to do a patio garden this year.
• 51:20
  I love that. So I'm going to do a patio
• 51:22
  garden. So I have some rose bushes I
• 51:24
  have. Will those be in a container or
• 51:27
  will they be like in a a plant box?
• 51:28
  So I'm going to get a plant box. I've been scavenging for just
• 51:32
  these unique planters with some colors, unique characteristics.
• 51:36
  So I'm not just having like a garden bed and just like all
• 51:40
  these flowers coming out of it. But I'm basically going to be
• 51:43
  staging my patio with, you know, outdoor.
• 51:47
  I'm going to bring some of my indoor plants that would thrive
• 51:50
  more outdoors. I'm gonna bring some of those
• 51:53
  out so they still have that same feeling cuz I love house plants
• 51:57
  and some of them thrive outdoors in the spring and summertime.
• 52:01
  I have. Lemons and limes that are
• 52:03
  indoors all winter, and now that it's becoming warmer, I'll put
• 52:08
  them outside, but they're in these big giant pots.
• 52:11
  They're really heavy. Get some.
• 52:13
  Help when you move those? Yeah, get some help when you
• 52:15
  move those. Yeah.
• 52:16
  So you're gonna create an outdoor space with your plants
• 52:20
  and then outdoor plants as well. Yes.
• 52:22
  And then do you have like your furniture for out there and a
• 52:27
  rug and decor like what's your plan?
• 52:31
  Currently, I don't have a plan. OK, I don't have a plan.
• 52:35
  I am going to. I've got to make all my soils
• 52:40
  and everything. I have all my seeds.
• 52:41
  I have the Bush, some of the bushes that I want and
• 52:45
  everything. So now I'm going to lay them
• 52:47
  out. I have two patios, so now I'm
• 52:49
  going to lay them out. So now I have to actually go.
• 52:52
  I have some furniture, patio furniture already, but I'm also
• 52:56
  a minimalist, yes. So it's going to be almost a
• 53:00
  full revamp. So now I'm going to actually
• 53:02
  have to go in and say, okay, these are the pots that I found.
• 53:06
  This is kind of how I want to design everything and then bring
• 53:09
  in the proper furniture. I think I'm probably putting us
• 53:15
  all on the spot here, but seriously, I think we need to do
• 53:18
  like a do your outdoor space. Yeah, seriously, how fun would
• 53:24
  that be? We have outdoor furniture.
• 53:26
  It'd be really fun to do that. I don't know if I'm allowed to
• 53:29
  say that, but yeah, that'd be. Really fun, a fun little
• 53:33
  project. It really would, and.
• 53:35
  It's I, I never used to be handy.
• 53:38
  I never used to be like a, a handy person and things like
• 53:41
  that. I became very handy.
• 53:43
  So now I would much, instead of hiring somebody, I was at the
• 53:47
  conventions like the garden convention.
• 53:52
  They had a convention in the Convention Center, and there's
• 53:55
  all these here. In.
• 53:57
  Denver and they're all they're, you know, we could come do your
• 54:00
  patio for you. And then I'm like, there's no
• 54:02
  fun in that. I would rather do it myself.
• 54:04
  And I feel like you always feel so much more rewarded when you
• 54:07
  plant a seed and then it grows into like a full, whether it's
• 54:11
  vegetables or flowers or a full plant that's.
• 54:13
  Another reason I love spring because all those bulbs that
• 54:16
  were planted are now coming up. You're seeing them all pop up.
• 54:20
  So I'm excited for that. So I think that would definitely
• 54:22
  be a a nice little mesh up of just like turning that's, you
• 54:27
  know, patios into like miniature gardens.
• 54:30
  Yeah. So I'm excited for that and I
• 54:33
  think that's definitely something we could do and it
• 54:37
  also inspire a lot of small spaces.
• 54:39
  I. Know there's.
• 54:39
  A lot of a lot of apartments here, even the newer 1.
• 54:42
  They just have like a. Small patios.
• 54:45
  And, you know, I don't think most people understand that you
• 54:48
  can still make a garden on a patio.
• 54:50
  Absolutely still create a garden on a patio.
• 54:52
  So yeah. Yeah, and it just adds to how
• 54:55
  much living space you have. And so like small spaces, we've
• 54:59
  we've done a a show on small spaces for outdoors and like,
• 55:03
  you know, small, medium and large and what all you can do.
• 55:06
  But even if you just have like the size of this rug space, you
• 55:11
  could put two chairs, you could or even 1 and, you know, an
• 55:14
  Ottoman just and then fill it with your plants.
• 55:17
  It'd be really great. Yeah, yeah, I definitely think
• 55:21
  you'd think you'd want to do that.
• 55:23
  Yeah, I would. OK, let's do it.
• 55:25
  Yeah, I think it'd be a lot of fun.
• 55:27
  So another thing I want to talk about are plants and pets and
• 55:32
  that combination because like in design, you know, if you have
• 55:36
  pets, you got to think about that, like what kind of rug
• 55:39
  you're going to put in there. We love washable rugs with pets
• 55:43
  and children. And then certain fabrics or
• 55:46
  Leathers, you know, Leathers, just easy to clean off.
• 55:50
  It depends on what type of leather it is.
• 55:51
  But so talk to us a little bit about plants and pets.
• 55:57
  And then are there certain plants that you should avoid if
• 56:01
  you have pets? Or how do you, I mean, you have
• 56:04
  300 plants. So are they all non-toxic or
• 56:07
  could they be toxic to animals? I've asked you a lot of
• 56:09
  questions. Yeah.
• 56:11
  So I think plants, pets, design all come into play extremely
• 56:16
  well. The type of rug that I have
• 56:18
  matters. So the checkered, the checkered
• 56:21
  rug that I have, for example, I've had maybe three of those,
• 56:25
  OK. Because I have in that color.
• 56:28
  I'm like a creature. I have habit.
• 56:29
  I ordered the same exact one. I love the checkerboard.
• 56:33
  It's so it's such a fun pattern right now.
• 56:36
  And so now the one that I have, I veered away from the other one
• 56:42
  because rugs are expensive and I have a washable one now because
• 56:46
  I. Have this checkerboard is
• 56:47
  washable. Yeah, So now I have one that's
• 56:49
  washable because I have pets. I live in Colorado.
• 56:53
  We go to the State Park, they go swimming, they get muddy, they
• 56:57
  go outside and they. Yeah.
• 57:00
  So with pets, you know, or if you have puppies, they have
• 57:03
  accidents. So I've got to make sure I can
• 57:06
  still have an aesthetic space. But now I've diverted to making
• 57:10
  sure I have a washable rug that's still aesthetic that I
• 57:14
  can navigate with my pets. When it comes to pet friendly
• 57:19
  house plants, being a plant shop owner, being a plant content
• 57:23
  creator, that's a pinpoint that people, some people run into
• 57:28
  late because they're like, Oh, my pet a my plans and they're
• 57:33
  throwing up and they're doing this.
• 57:35
  Yeah. And that there are certain
• 57:36
  plants that are pet friendly. A lot of calatheas, a lot of
• 57:39
  Hoyas are pet friendly. And those are the ones that are
• 57:44
  easy plants too for people too. Are you know, you're, you know,
• 57:48
  like a watermelon Pepperonias are a good one too, so that
• 57:52
  you're you are going to have some pet friendly house plants
• 57:55
  that you can still style very, very well.
• 57:58
  For me, I had to introduce house plants to my dogs when they were
• 58:01
  puppies, right? So they would get into the soil
• 58:04
  or they would chew on them. But very quickly how I may have
• 58:09
  showed them not to touch them may have been a little mean, but
• 58:14
  I had like a stuffed animal that I beat up.
• 58:16
  It was like a little dog stuffed animal and I like play with it
• 58:20
  in like the plants and I beat it up a little bit.
• 58:23
  Unorthodox. They're like what is.
• 58:25
  Going on, but I think over time outside of that, obviously that
• 58:30
  was more the humorous side, but I honestly just introduced it to
• 58:36
  them early, like introduced it to them early.
• 58:38
  So they just, it's part of their home.
• 58:42
  So spider plants, for example, are going to be some that are
• 58:46
  very well, but through spider plants, I love hanging my spider
• 58:50
  plants. So for, you know, cat owners,
• 58:54
  for example, hanging plants are really good in spaces that they
• 58:57
  can't really get, they can't really get to, right.
• 59:02
  So if you're a pet owner but you want plants, maybe try to hang
• 59:08
  your plants. If you have cats.
• 59:10
  If you have cats that are jumping and that will kind of
• 59:14
  eat those plants. And so tying that in, I've
• 59:18
  learned to do a couple different things to kind of if I was a
• 59:23
  planned parent and I had pets that are getting into my plants,
• 59:27
  I'm hanging my plants. That's a very good way to do it.
• 59:31
  You can get very, very creative with some shelving spaces above
• 59:35
  ground for, you know, if you obviously your dogs or your, you
• 59:39
  know, if you have a pig or whatever, they're not gonna get
• 59:43
  up on the higher show. I actually.
• 59:44
  Knew somebody that had a pet pig.
• 59:46
  Yeah, yeah. And there is no such thing as a
• 59:49
  teacup pig. They get big.
• 59:51
  They get big. I believe it.
• 59:52
  I believe it. Yeah.
• 59:53
  So there's a few different ways, you know, like the picture
• 59:56
  frame. People picture frame their TV's.
• 59:59
  I picture frame plants. Tell us about that.
• 1:00:03
  You can DIY take out, get a regular picture frame, take out
• 1:00:06
  the glass, take out all of that stuff.
• 1:00:08
  You've got hooks. You can order them Amazon, IKEA,
• 1:00:12
  whatever. And you're drilling that
• 1:00:15
  circular hook into the wall. Make sure it's mounted properly
• 1:00:20
  and you're putting a picture frame around it and you just
• 1:00:24
  drop, you just drop a plant inside of it and now you have a
• 1:00:27
  picture frame plant. It's on a wall.
• 1:00:29
  It can be, it's, it's art and your pets can't get a hold of
• 1:00:34
  it. So for pet owners, I would
• 1:00:36
  definitely say figure out different creative ways to get
• 1:00:39
  them just away from the ground and in places that your pets
• 1:00:44
  can't reach them. And if you do want them in
• 1:00:47
  places that your pets can reach them, make sure they're pet
• 1:00:51
  friendly house plants because it's a lot less harmful to your
• 1:00:55
  pets. If they were to chew on it,
• 1:00:58
  yeah, my cats like to chew the tops of my plants.
• 1:01:01
  Yeah, they didn't get ahold of that.
• 1:01:03
  But anything that's wispy, yeah, they will chew the top off.
• 1:01:07
  Yeah, there are some things, you know, you can spray some like
• 1:01:10
  apple cider vinegar on like your plants, the soils and things
• 1:01:15
  like that to try to keep them away from just like.
• 1:01:17
  And it doesn't harm the. Plant either it won't harm,
• 1:01:19
  yeah, so it won't harm the plants like on top of the soil
• 1:01:23
  and stuff like that to just keep them away from it and maybe just
• 1:01:27
  like introduce it to them more. Yeah, obviously pet friendly
• 1:01:30
  ones. So they're like normalized with
• 1:01:32
  them. Like they were creatures of
• 1:01:35
  habits. Pets are creatures of habits
• 1:01:37
  too. So the more they're used to
• 1:01:38
  something, the less curious they are about them.
• 1:01:41
  Yeah, that's a good idea. Let me ask you, let's go back to
• 1:01:45
  this checkerboard washable rug. I love that.
• 1:01:48
  And I noticed that's also in your plant store.
• 1:01:52
  Yes, only plants. Yeah.
• 1:01:55
  So tell us about checkerboard and why checkerboard?
• 1:01:59
  Okay, so I chose checkerboard because I started wanting
• 1:02:03
  character and personality into my space, a little bit of
• 1:02:06
  character and I love green and but I don't want to be overly
• 1:02:11
  aggressive with green. I want a close space, but I want
• 1:02:14
  to, I want it open up too. So something about checkers
• 1:02:18
  bring a little bit of character. They're, you know, you walk into
• 1:02:21
  my house, I think. It's a classic.
• 1:02:22
  Look, yeah, you can go in. It's simple, but it's also an
• 1:02:26
  attention drawer so you can notice the details on it.
• 1:02:29
  And so oddly enough, when I was painting my bedroom, that's
• 1:02:34
  where it first after I had that rug and I'm like, I wonder what
• 1:02:37
  this would look like. So one of my walls, half of it,
• 1:02:41
  it's checkered. So I have did you?
• 1:02:43
  Paint it up there yourself, OK? I have Evergreen walls and my
• 1:02:48
  friend helps. He's a painter so he's helping
• 1:02:51
  me paint. It was tedious and it's making
• 1:02:54
  testers like they're tape. Everything on.
• 1:02:56
  Everything. Yeah.
• 1:02:57
  And he's painted the whole room Evergreen and I have this middle
• 1:03:03
  strip and I had to map it out because I have a window still.
• 1:03:07
  So the the ends of the window still are checkered and I'm
• 1:03:11
  measuring and taping everything 1 by 1 and I'm still going while
• 1:03:18
  he finished the whole painting the whole room.
• 1:03:21
  But at the end he at the end of it, it was amazing.
• 1:03:24
  And I was like, wow, I love that because it's so simple.
• 1:03:27
  It's so classic, but it brings so much character to the space.
• 1:03:31
  Modern, even though it's a classic look, you know, with the
• 1:03:35
  checkerboard, it's very modern and it's very in right now, but
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  I don't think it ever goes out either.
• 1:03:41
  It's not too much. Yeah, it's not too much.
• 1:03:43
  It's clean, It's creative. It's it's a fun DIY too, You
• 1:03:47
  know, people come in. And so when I went into the shop
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  again, that little slit of that little slit in between the
• 1:03:56
  shelves, it reminded me of my bedroom because my bedroom has
• 1:04:01
  just that centerpiece. Yeah, I'm like, why not?
• 1:04:03
  Let's do it. So did that.
• 1:04:05
  And it's a nice little entryway that's like one of the first
• 1:04:08
  things you see when you walk into the shop.
• 1:04:11
  And so I think anybody can, if you're whether it's a checkered
• 1:04:15
  blanket, whether it's a checkered rug, whether it's a
• 1:04:18
  checkered wall, whatever the case may be, that's definitely
• 1:04:21
  something to play with that brings so much simplicity but
• 1:04:25
  character to your space. Yeah.
• 1:04:27
  And the other thing about checkerboard is you can mix that
• 1:04:29
  pattern with other patterns and it's it's pretty cool.
• 1:04:33
  What about like when you pulled the tape off?
• 1:04:35
  Isn't that so satisfying? Satisfying.
• 1:04:37
  So satisfying. So satisfying, yeah.
• 1:04:39
  So, yeah, if you're on the fence about painting A room, paint a
• 1:04:44
  room, tape, you know, tape it up.
• 1:04:48
  And it is satisfying to pull that tape off your trim.
• 1:04:52
  Yeah. I'll say do your research
• 1:04:54
  before, do your research before painting a checkered wall
• 1:04:59
  because it could be very tedious if you have like missteps or you
• 1:05:04
  think you can just like like it doesn't work like that.
• 1:05:07
  No, it's a block by block. Yes, block by yes, that's kind
• 1:05:11
  of hard to say block by block, but I have talking about
• 1:05:16
  checkerboards in my office. I have a checkerboard wall.
• 1:05:20
  It's like squares and circles, but it lays out checkerboard.
• 1:05:24
  I have no natural light in there, so I'm going to get a
• 1:05:26
  plant that I don't need natural light and I'm gonna get that
• 1:05:30
  light bulb you were telling us about.
• 1:05:32
  But yeah, it's my wall is white. And then it's, I think it's
• 1:05:36
  called yellow Finch. But that's the checkerboard and
• 1:05:39
  the circles and squares. And I had that in my old office
• 1:05:42
  too. And I love it.
• 1:05:45
  It just makes me happy. Now we're gonna add a plant in
• 1:05:48
  there. I know I'm gonna definitely add
• 1:05:50
  some more plants. Is there anything else you want
• 1:05:55
  to add today to design and plants that you want to let
• 1:06:01
  people know about? I would say one bringing plants
• 1:06:06
  into your space is designing right because they bring so much
• 1:06:09
  character, so much life into your space.
• 1:06:11
  I would say finding plants that kind of you resonate with make
• 1:06:16
  your space your space and be just being creative.
• 1:06:20
  I think with plants have allowed me to do so many Diys in my
• 1:06:24
  space, from the picture frames to hanging them to designing
• 1:06:28
  shelving spaces to the books that I no longer read.
• 1:06:32
  I use them to as a. Plant stand.
• 1:06:34
  Yeah, right. And so I think you can create so
• 1:06:38
  much, you know, you can create a home with plants and you can
• 1:06:42
  style with plants, you know, small plants on coffee tables,
• 1:06:46
  you can terrariums on coffee tables.
• 1:06:49
  Let's talk about terrariums. Do you do those too?
• 1:06:51
  I do. Do you sell those at your shop?
• 1:06:54
  I will start to, I will more so do classes, the community based
• 1:06:59
  aspects. So I do want to be hands on.
• 1:07:01
  So moving into the space, we will start selling terrariums
• 1:07:05
  kits so they can do them. We won't start having terrarium
• 1:07:09
  classes and everything. They're really simple.
• 1:07:12
  Jason, my editor, I had made him terrarium.
• 1:07:17
  Terrarium or oddly, one of the easiest plants, easiest looking.
• 1:07:22
  They're really low maintenance once they're settled because
• 1:07:25
  you've got that sealed right there.
• 1:07:27
  So like it keeps all that humidity in there.
• 1:07:30
  You don't have to water it often.
• 1:07:31
  You know, last time I checked in with him, he was like, I haven't
• 1:07:34
  watered this thing for two months and.
• 1:07:36
  It's so striving. Right.
• 1:07:38
  Because it's got a cover on it. And even if it's an open one, it
• 1:07:41
  still keeps a lot of humidity in there.
• 1:07:44
  And so I think terrariums are very clean.
• 1:07:48
  It's like. It's own little ecosystem in
• 1:07:50
  there, yeah. So a lot of life and I always
• 1:07:53
  think you get, so you know, this one right now, for example, it's
• 1:07:56
  thriving, but it's also got a lot of character and it's, it
• 1:08:00
  adds to the space. It does, and if we were to take
• 1:08:02
  it away, it's like it takes away the color and everything from
• 1:08:07
  the space. This.
• 1:08:08
  My friend Lori actually does these terrariums at her house.
• 1:08:13
  She has I think three or four. One is she has a fish in one.
• 1:08:18
  Yep. So it like acts as a fish.
• 1:08:20
  Tank. Yeah, you can have living
• 1:08:22
  creatures in there. You can have snails, snails,
• 1:08:25
  frogs. You can have little bugs.
• 1:08:28
  There's a lot of stuff you can do.
• 1:08:30
  Yeah, with terrariums you can make I, when I was at plant, the
• 1:08:34
  last plant kind of I was at, we made DIY terrariums.
• 1:08:39
  We all, so we all had like 10 minutes to go find, you know,
• 1:08:42
  and build our own terrariums and you can get so creative with
• 1:08:46
  them. And every single one was
• 1:08:48
  completely different because everyone has.
• 1:08:50
  Yeah, everybody. Was like some were desert ones.
• 1:08:53
  I had a I'm like an aesthetic person.
• 1:08:55
  I had found some spinning base that from a plant, from a plant
• 1:09:02
  pot, it was a spinning one. I took the top off and I had put
• 1:09:05
  like a like a cowboy base in there and then just like almost
• 1:09:11
  made it like a Western theme. But it's like spinning and you
• 1:09:14
  know, so you can get creative with terrariums and it I think
• 1:09:17
  it gives like it's, it's a good conversation starter, right?
• 1:09:20
  It really is. And everything too.
• 1:09:22
  I like the idea of like, is it like a Lazy Susan that it sits
• 1:09:26
  on that's spinning? OK.
• 1:09:28
  I like that for like a dining table or breakfast table.
• 1:09:33
  Yeah. And it does.
• 1:09:35
  I mean, that is a great conversation piece and it's a
• 1:09:37
  great accessory, yes. It is.
• 1:09:40
  I'm going to tell her. I wonder if she knows about a
• 1:09:42
  Lazy Susan for this, this particular one.
• 1:09:46
  She has all, like all these different glass vases.
• 1:09:48
  And these are just simple glass vases that she bought.
• 1:09:52
  And then these things are. Those are just decorative wood
• 1:09:58
  spheres that you put in a bowl. Yeah.
• 1:09:59
  She used it for a top. Yeah.
• 1:10:02
  So you really could just get it out of nothing.
• 1:10:04
  Any type of vase, any size and go from there.
• 1:10:09
  Yeah, no, I definitely, yeah. I think just try it.
• 1:10:12
  I think there's a lot of different ways now that I am so
• 1:10:16
  embedded in styling plans that, you know, when I speak, I speak
• 1:10:20
  on. I don't, I don't speak on
• 1:10:22
  teaching people how to take care of plans.
• 1:10:24
  I teach people how to take care of themselves.
• 1:10:25
  So I do my speaking sessions. On.
• 1:10:28
  Those an environment, so how plant care shapes our self-care,
• 1:10:31
  for example. So I think there's so many
• 1:10:33
  different ways that you can introduce plants, your space.
• 1:10:35
  You brought up flowers earlier. I used to always bring flowers
• 1:10:38
  into my home and I would always have flowers in my home.
• 1:10:42
  I'm on a ikabana kick right now. What's that?
• 1:10:45
  An ikabana? It's like a Japanese flora
• 1:10:47
  arrangement style with like we have like a frog in like a bowl.
• 1:10:50
  Like a bowl. Oh.
• 1:10:51
  I saw you make this arrangement from Trader Joe's.
• 1:10:54
  Yes. That was cool and my friends are
• 1:10:56
  like in and out, my friends, my friends are in and now I was
• 1:11:00
  introduced to it and I love it. Say the name again.
• 1:11:03
  Ikabana. Ikabana yeah, I like that.
• 1:11:05
  I love that I'm. Gonna say cabana.
• 1:11:07
  This weekend, something. You know, but my friends are all
• 1:11:10
  into it now and they're like, can you host an Icobana?
• 1:11:13
  Nice. Or we'll go to Trader Joe's, get
• 1:11:15
  all these flowers, But they all have to go out into the wild,
• 1:11:19
  thrift their bowls, select their bowls, and they come in and
• 1:11:23
  everybody does everything. Funny enough, the last one we
• 1:11:27
  did when all our friends got together, the guys that are
• 1:11:31
  like, we're not doing this. They're they were into it more
• 1:11:35
  than everybody else. It was the, it's always the
• 1:11:38
  people that are like, we're not doing this.
• 1:11:40
  So and again, that brings, you know, you're bringing your
• 1:11:43
  plants indoors in a different way that you normally wouldn't
• 1:11:45
  see. So I think just don't be scared
• 1:11:48
  of bringing plants in your home. And if you have any question,
• 1:11:51
  you know, the people who shop at only plants, they have our phone
• 1:11:55
  number and it's a, we make it an, you know, we have Apple
• 1:11:58
  products so they can text us. They can.
• 1:12:01
  Send us pictures, you know, you can always just, you know, shoot
• 1:12:04
  us a message and you know, we tell them how to take care of
• 1:12:07
  them and things like that. So I think don't be scared to
• 1:12:11
  have plants in your home. They elevate your home not only
• 1:12:15
  in the physical aspect, not only as a decorative aspect, but in
• 1:12:18
  mental aspects as well because you have a lot of wins for them
• 1:12:21
  too. Let's circle back to the
• 1:12:25
  self-care because that's so important right now in design
• 1:12:29
  and like even in furnishings, you know, we think about that
• 1:12:33
  and just Wellness for people, like what mattress they sleep on
• 1:12:38
  their pillows. We even have these massage
• 1:12:40
  chairs that that would be great for a plant room.
• 1:12:43
  Yeah, one of those amazing massage chairs.
• 1:12:46
  I wouldn't leave. I know I could.
• 1:12:47
  I could. I could envision them.
• 1:12:50
  I. Wouldn't we need to?
• 1:12:51
  Yes, they're awesome. So that's that's a big deal.
• 1:12:56
  And then like furniture that has built in speakers and massage
• 1:13:02
  and, you know, just all those other features just to have more
• 1:13:06
  self-care and just really be able to relax in your home.
• 1:13:11
  We're big on that right now and we'll be for a long, long time
• 1:13:15
  to come. But talk to us about self-care
• 1:13:18
  and plants. Yeah.
• 1:13:20
  Just touch on that. Yeah, I think plants have me
• 1:13:25
  personally taught me to be a better nurturer, right?
• 1:13:28
  And it has also taught me a lot about the things that the
• 1:13:31
  attention that I give plants, I normally neglect them myself,
• 1:13:34
  right? Yeah.
• 1:13:35
  So it's led me to switch even just how I create content
• 1:13:40
  instead of just educating on plants.
• 1:13:41
  I always do a plant care self-care combination.
• 1:13:44
  So whether that's relating growth, you know, plant growth
• 1:13:48
  to self growth, plant neglect to personal neglect, right.
• 1:13:54
  You know, one of the most recent one I did is like cutting them
• 1:13:57
  off for example. I saw that one, that was
• 1:13:59
  beautiful. I think what we have, you know,
• 1:14:02
  when you're looking at a trailing plant like a pothos, a
• 1:14:04
  lot of people get so, so scared to just prune them because
• 1:14:07
  they're like they. Think they're going to kill it?
• 1:14:09
  They're going. To kill it.
• 1:14:10
  But they're actually encouraging that plant to create new growth
• 1:14:13
  and probably healthier growth because more often than not,
• 1:14:16
  once you prune them, those leaves come back bigger and
• 1:14:18
  stronger, right? And within our personal self,
• 1:14:21
  you know, within our personal growth and self, there's a lot
• 1:14:25
  of things personally that we probably should let go.
• 1:14:28
  That we're always so timid and so scared.
• 1:14:29
  It's like the what ifs and we don't let them go.
• 1:14:32
  We don't prune them, we don't cut them off.
• 1:14:35
  But it's needed. It's it's needed cutting, you
• 1:14:40
  know, pruning is needed for growth in any aspect.
• 1:14:44
  So you learn so many things. You learn, You know, if you
• 1:14:48
  ever, if you ever want to know how I'm truly doing, ask me how
• 1:14:52
  my plants are doing. If my plants are going through
• 1:14:55
  it, I'm probably going through it too, right?
• 1:14:58
  And so they teach you so many things.
• 1:15:00
  Just, you know, the, the root of things, right?
• 1:15:03
  If your roots are rotting, the base of your plants rotting, the
• 1:15:06
  plants probably not doing too well.
• 1:15:09
  So if you feel like you're rotting away or you know, you're
• 1:15:12
  not thriving, there's probably just some of those basic, you
• 1:15:16
  know, grounding things that you need to do.
• 1:15:17
  What's the first thing you do in the morning, right?
• 1:15:20
  Or you just like right on your phone getting out of the house?
• 1:15:23
  Or are you like sitting down in the dark for like 5 minutes?
• 1:15:26
  It's like being grounded. Are you reading a book before
• 1:15:29
  you get out? So I think planned care teaches
• 1:15:33
  us so much about growth in so many ways.
• 1:15:36
  Like, you know, you're, you're new to plans and I bet every
• 1:15:39
  single time you see a, some new growth, you're probably thrilled
• 1:15:42
  and you're probably so proud of and you're proud of that.
• 1:15:45
  But how often do you wake up and you're like, you know what I
• 1:15:49
  took on today and I did something I haven't thought I
• 1:15:52
  would do in a very long time. And you celebrate yourself in
• 1:15:55
  the same way, right? And so though it's taught me
• 1:15:58
  I'm, I do a lot of things that I probably should celebrate and I
• 1:16:02
  never celebrate. And planning care, for example,
• 1:16:05
  has taught me to learn to start celebrating myself, rewarding
• 1:16:08
  myself and thinking about just how I take care of myself, how I
• 1:16:12
  take care of my people in a whole different light too.
• 1:16:15
  So I'm a big believer in planning care, of being
• 1:16:18
  self-care on any given day. And so if you're trying to
• 1:16:23
  figure out how to take care of yourself, if you're trying to
• 1:16:26
  figure out how to take care of somebody else or you don't, if
• 1:16:29
  you don't know how to take care of yourself, get a plant.
• 1:16:32
  That plant will teach you, if you can take care of that plant,
• 1:16:34
  it'll teach you how to take care of yourself because you learned
• 1:16:37
  so much about them. And when you look at the analogy
• 1:16:40
  of plants, it's pretty similar to how we are, and they shape us
• 1:16:45
  too. Yeah, yeah, I think you're
• 1:16:47
  right. It's really interesting because
• 1:16:50
  self-care is, I mean, we all need that right now, right?
• 1:16:55
  And like, it really starts at home.
• 1:16:57
  It does it. Does and like your surroundings
• 1:17:00
  are so important to yourself care and something that I did,
• 1:17:05
  and maybe this is because I have plants now, I don't know.
• 1:17:09
  But but one thing that I'm doing in the mornings is I'm slowing
• 1:17:13
  it down a little bit. Well, the first thing I do, I
• 1:17:16
  get up, I look at my plants and, you know, if they need water,
• 1:17:19
  I'll water them. But I always, you know, open my
• 1:17:21
  windows for my plants and I take care of my animals.
• 1:17:25
  That's first thing I do is the animals and then myself.
• 1:17:28
  But I I put a bar stool upstairs in my loft area where my window
• 1:17:36
  is and I have a great view of the mountains and I just take a
• 1:17:39
  few minutes and sit there and enjoy the mountains.
• 1:17:43
  Yeah. I think that leads into, I think
• 1:17:46
  all of everything we've talked about today and just, you know,
• 1:17:51
  curating your space. I think your furniture is so
• 1:17:55
  important. Your home is so important.
• 1:17:57
  How you curate your home is so important because your home
• 1:18:01
  should be a safe space. It should be a safe haven.
• 1:18:04
  It should be a place for you to be able to reflect, to
• 1:18:06
  celebrate, to mourn and all of that, all of those things.
• 1:18:10
  So choosing the right pieces of furniture, choosing the right
• 1:18:14
  the right style. Do you want something modern?
• 1:18:16
  Do you want something simple? Do you want you know, I I love
• 1:18:19
  an organized chaos. You know, what kind of finding
• 1:18:23
  the right furniture plants to just style your space and curate
• 1:18:28
  that perfect home for you to kind of to it helps elevate your
• 1:18:32
  mind. It helps elevate your life and
• 1:18:34
  you want to be you want to be in your home.
• 1:18:37
  A you know, I'm I will always I love being home because the way
• 1:18:43
  you know, when I walk in and I turn all my lamps on, I don't
• 1:18:46
  want to leave. So when my friends are like hey.
• 1:18:48
  The lamps are on. He's not going out.
• 1:18:50
  I'm not, you know, I'm like, ah, you know, it makes it hard for
• 1:18:54
  me to leave my house because I've spent so much time curating
• 1:18:57
  it. Yeah.
• 1:18:57
  Where before I'm like. When I think that's why people
• 1:19:01
  are coming back to having friends over in their home,
• 1:19:06
  sitting in a dining room, eating a meal together, playing a game
• 1:19:09
  or bingo, plant bingo. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:19:13
  I think home is definitely where it's at now.
• 1:19:16
  That's our safe, cozy space. Yeah.
• 1:19:20
  Yeah. No, I host AI host a guy's wine
• 1:19:25
  and steak night every single month.
• 1:19:27
  You do. Oh wow.
• 1:19:28
  That for example, so it's like so nice because as a as a guy, I
• 1:19:34
  like the girlies. I can't, I have nothing on the
• 1:19:36
  girlies because the girlies, they have the best styling decor
• 1:19:41
  and everything. But I can still have all the
• 1:19:42
  guys over. And because I've taken time to
• 1:19:45
  curate my home, I don't, I don't have to like, oh, I don't have
• 1:19:50
  the proper stools. I don't have the right spacing
• 1:19:52
  arrangement. They can still come and if it
• 1:19:55
  feels cozy and like the guys are like the girls, we're just like
• 1:19:58
  the girls and like we're living in a very just like stylish
• 1:20:01
  environment and cozy environment.
• 1:20:04
  And it's nice, right? And so IA 100% think, yeah, like
• 1:20:09
  curate that to be like whatever you do, like curate your home to
• 1:20:13
  be a reflection of you, of a reflection where you know you
• 1:20:17
  want your family and friends to be in and you want to be in a
• 1:20:21
  place that you don't want to leave or anything like that.
• 1:20:23
  I love that you do that and have people over.
• 1:20:27
  I yeah, we all need to have more community, have people into our
• 1:20:32
  homes, have our friends over and just really enjoy each other's
• 1:20:36
  company. And yeah, home's where it's at.
• 1:20:41
  Home is here. Everyone for sure.
• 1:20:44
  For sure. Well, it was really great
• 1:20:46
  talking to you, and I feel like I've learned quite a bit about
• 1:20:51
  plants. I can't wait to come to your
• 1:20:52
  shop. Yeah.
• 1:20:55
  Where is your shop? I know you said Dairy Block, but
• 1:20:57
  do you have an actual address that you can tell everyone and
• 1:21:00
  where to find you? Yes, so so only plants is
• 1:21:04
  located inside of the free market on the dairy block and so
• 1:21:10
  it's eighteen O 1 Blake St. Blake St.
• 1:21:13
  So walk on in there you'll find it.
• 1:21:17
  It's really easy hard to miss online.
• 1:21:20
  I can be found at on Instagram it's K under score WOSIE.
• 1:21:27
  On TikTok it's K under score WOS.
• 1:21:31
  But if you go on any platform and you search Plant Daddy, I'm
• 1:21:35
  sure at some point you'll probably find me within a couple
• 1:21:38
  of seconds. OK, that works.
• 1:21:40
  Too. Yeah, and your new address,
• 1:21:43
  you'll update us on that too? So my new address will remain
• 1:21:46
  just about the same. The unit number.
• 1:21:49
  I'm not. I'm probably not in the same
• 1:21:51
  place. Yeah, it's in the same exact
• 1:21:52
  place. It's probably less than 20 feet
• 1:21:55
  away from where it currently is. So moving into May, it'll
• 1:22:00
  everything will be moved into the new space and it really
• 1:22:04
  would just be more plants, but it's going to be designed as
• 1:22:10
  more of kind of what we talked about.
• 1:22:12
  I will have like lounging areas for people to just come in, hang
• 1:22:18
  out with the plants, they can work, they can hang out with
• 1:22:21
  their friends, they can go on a cute little date and.
• 1:22:25
  All in your. Space, All in the space we can.
• 1:22:27
  We'll host plant bingos in there, we'll have repotting
• 1:22:30
  classes and we might even have styling classes.
• 1:22:34
  How to style? You know how to style your space
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  with plants and things. Do you have a bookshelf in
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  there? We have tremendous amount of
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  shelves. I do have a center.
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  It's a huge centerpiece that is a mega bookshelf.
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  OK, so you you're going to have, you know, your record players,
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  your books and a little bit of everything in there to where it
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  is a lot cozier and not just plant, not just like a not just
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  a plant shop, it's a space where you can come and just.
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  It's like a second home. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  OK. Well, that's awesome.
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  I can't wait to come and visit you there.
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  And then I one more question. I know we're running out of
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  time, but if someone has a plant emergency, if one of their
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  plants is just not looking good, can they bring it into your shop
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  and show it to you and get some? Advice.
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  Yes. Gary, do you have a plant
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  hospital? For 1850, No, I'm joking.
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  No, I'm joking I am we're big on educating people and we're very
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  solution oriented. And so for no additional cost,
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  if anyone ever has any plant questions, plant issues, that's
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  what I do on a daily basis. I help people like bring their
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  plants alive, you know, keep keep them alive, bring them back
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  to life. Or I may just.
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  One for you, yeah. Or I may just say this one is a
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  goner, right? It's not coming back, but they
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  can always come into the shop. And Daria is a plant expert.
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  I'm a plant expert. And so we're, we're always happy
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  and willing to help navigate any of that.
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  And you don't need to buy a plant.
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  You can just come in and even if it is from a different plant
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  shop down the street, they can come in.
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  They could come in and get some free plant advice or they can
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  always DM us. You know, like I mentioned, we
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  have customers and people send us pictures all the time about
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  their plans and they ask questions about them and it's a
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  we're a response, a text and e-mail away.
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  I barely check my e-mail, Daria does, but we're a text, e-mail,
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  phone call, FaceTime, DM away from helping you save your plans
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  and keeping them alive. I love it.
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  I love it. I think you guys are just doing
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  great there. It's just going to be a
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  wonderful place to visit. Yeah, Yeah.
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  Thanks for coming in OF. Course, thank you so much for
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  having me. This was exciting.
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  Yeah, well, we'll see you all the next time.
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  Unseated. See you later.