This Online Plant Seller Helped Me Fake Having a Green Thumb

Photo by Erin Derby

Houseplants have been in style for centuries, but over the past few years they’ve become cornerstones of a pulled-together room, like art on walls and throw pillows on sofas. If you’ve got an empty corner, the advice is often to fill it with a plant.

And while style-wise that’s usually a great call, there’s just one problem: Plants require care.

Leaves need to be pruned, sunlight needs to be accounted for, and water has to be slurped up in regular intervals. For me, it was all pretty easy to overlook. “I’ll water the plants tomorrow,” I’d tell myself as I remembered them in the corner of a dark room just before bed. And then tomorrow turned into the next day, which turned into the next day, which finally became a plant that peaced out in protest to a garden in the sky. 

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