A lady at the Denver Botanic Gardens told me she only buys plants with 'good energy' and it made me rethink my whole approach.

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What even is good energy for a plant? Is it the shape of the leaves or just a feeling you get? I wonder if we're all just picking the ones that look happy to us without realizing it. Maybe my whole cart at the garden center is just a bunch of good vibes I didn't know I was choosing.

leo_murphy1mo ago

My friend Sarah bought a fiddle leaf fig because it looked "calm" to her. She killed it in three months. The replacement was a weird, lopsided one the store was about to toss. That thing is still alive five years later, thriving on her neglect. She picked the sad plant on a gut feeling, and it was the right call. Makes you wonder how much we're really sensing.

charles6781mo ago

Dollar stores and big box stores often keep their plants in the back without much light for weeks at a time. I've grabbed a few from the clearance rack that looked totally dead, just some brown sticks in dirt, and tossed them in my neglected corner with no expectations. Two of them bounced back like nothing happened and now they're the biggest things in my house. Meanwhile the perfect looking ones from the fancy nursery went downhill fast. I think it's less about good energy and more about which plants are tough enough to handle shipping and bad retail storage without giving up completely.