Your Plant Parent Personality™ is...

Drumroll, Please!

You are the “Mindful Plant Parent"!

The MPP can be found interacting with their plants on a daily basis because they understand that plant care is self care.

Whether it’s incorporating plants into your morning routine, using them during midday meditations or unwinding with them in the evening, you’re open and ready to use plants to beautify you inner and outer worlds.

You’re amazing at:

Consistency

Making space and time to engage with your plants

Eagerly learning every life lesson a plant can teach

You likely struggle with:

Overloving your plants. Because you love interacting with your plants, it’s easy to reach for the watering can too frequently in an act of love, but accidentally overwater them. Check out this podcast “Overwatered vs underwatered plants”.

Tip: keep your plants from sitting in wet soil, put them in an airy potting mix in order to help their roots stay happy. This is the one I use!

Overwhelm: when you’re this connected to your plants: when they suffer, you suffer. Or maybe a new season of life shuffles in, which doesn’t allow you to give your plants the time and space you used to.

Tip: understand that we go through seasons just like our plants, and a plant death is an opportunity to learn a lesson and become a better plant parent. You’re doing great! Here’s a pod episode in which I talk about how I killed a bunch of plants last year during a tough season of life.

And now what you’ve been waiting for!

The Mindful Plant Parent List of Dream Plants!

Any type of moisture loving plant will be your bestie, because it will be better suited for the level of TLC you want to give it. You almost might enjoy plants with textural leaves or scented blooms, to use to engage your senses in a mindful moment.

General Plant Names to look for:

Airplants, Ferns, Herbs, Orchids, Prayer Plants, Alocasia, Fittonia and Philodendron. But I’ve got specific species I love displayed here, too!

How this list works:

Plants are broken down based on lighting requirements, and then size.I’ve given you both common and scientific names to help you ID them at your local plant shops. Don’t be afraid to ask for help! The pink plants are usually easier to find.

PS: If you struggle with understanding your natural indoor light, check out my free download.

Scented Hoya like
Philodendron Micans
Philodendron Brandtianum
Cebu Blue Pothos (Epipremnum pinnatum ‘Cebu Blue’)
Mini Monstera Rhaphidophora tetrasperma
N’joy Pothos Epipremnum aureum ‘N’joy’

Hanging or Trellis

Big Plants

Japanese Aralia (Fatsia japonica)
Boston Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata ‘Bostoniensis’)

Medium/Small Plants

Blue Star Fern (Phlebodium aureum)
Birds Nest Fern (Aspleniu nidus)
Button Fern (Pellaea rotundifolia)
Lemon Button Fern (nephrolepis cordifolia)
Fittonia ‘White Anne’
Fittonia ‘Pink Star’
Rattlesnake Plant Calathea lancifolia

Low Light

Big Plants

Medium/Small Plants

Jewel orchid (Ludisia discolor)
Prayer Plant (Maranta spp.) (Maranta leuconeura var. Erythroneura”
Moth Orchid Phalaenopsis spp.
Velvet Calathea (Calathea rufibarba)
Red Anthurium Anthurium andraeanum
Alocasia cuprea

Medium Light

Big Plants

Fiddle Leaf Fig Ficus Lyrata
Boston Fern Nephrolepis exalta ‘Bostoniensis’
Bird of Paradise Strelitzia nicolai
Alocasia longiloba

Medium/Small Plants

Queen Airplant Tillandsia Xerographica
Air Plant Tillandsia bulbosa
Medusa Air Plant Tillandsia Caput Medusae
Coconut Orchid - Maxillaria tenuifolia
Philodendron “Fozzie” Philodendron nangaritense
Variegated Rubber Plant Ficus elastic ‘Tineke’ or ‘Belize’
Herbs: pick your favorite and try growing it!

High Light

The Mindful Plant Parent Toolkit

Here are some Mindful Plant Parent essentials that will help set you up for success!

Since MPP’s are prone to overwatering, mix in some Espoma Organic Orchid Mix with your Potting mix for extra aeration. Ensure your favorite plant lives its absolute best life with this telescoping grow light. Read about the science behind why plants make us happy. Click the images or the button below to shop my curated storefront for you!

Shop Your Toolkit!

Want to use your plants as a happiness booster?

Try this Growing Joy™ Practice:

Affirmations are talked about by many of the best wellness gurus in the biz. They are used to lift your spirits, increase your confidence, help you overcome limiting beliefs and just generally make you feel good.

Sometimes it’s uncomfortable to look in a mirror and say kind things to ourselves. But it’s definitely easy to say something nice to your plant! My hope is that after you affirm your plants, it will get easier and easier to say those affirmations to yourself. Plus… it’s fun!

My favorite planty affirmations:

You grow, girl!
Keep growing, plant friend!
I'm proud of you.
I honor your dormancy and trust you will awaken at the perfect time.
Everyone is growing at their own rate. I'm exactly where I need to be.
Stand tall and let yourself bloom.

There’s lots more of plant care/self care advice, research and practices in my book.

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Alright you Mindful Plant Parent, You— I’ll leave you here! Happy shopping!

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