This Brooklyn Plant Guardian Has 60+ Crops in a Tiny Home (Along with the Bathe)

What’s the weirdest place you’ve ever put a plant? For Angela Alba, it’s on her bathe caddy which hangs from her bathe head. Angela lives in Brooklyn alongside together with her boyfriend, cat, and over 60 vegetation. Her vegetation are everywhere, along with a hallway that’s acquired an unbelievable skylight casting pure gentle to her assortment.

In This Episode

Angela has a really distinctive assortment ranging from a Cinnamon Cactus which she considers the trickiest in her indoor jungle to her Agave Americana, which was the first sort of plant she ever had (this one isn’t the exact one—the distinctive died so she modified it). She first started gathering vegetation in her early 20s when a great buddy of hers really helpful that she uncover one factor to take care of, and vegetation appeared like the proper issue.

Most Distinctive Plant

Everytime you enter her toilet—which is probably going one of many most interesting rooms to take care of humidity-loving vegetation whenever you’ve acquired gentle—you get to see her most unique plant, a Philodendron Bilietiae which has really prolonged slender leaves.

Most Treasured Plant

In her mattress room Angela has her Beaucarnea Recurvata, or the Ponytail Palm, which she said could possibly be the plant she could possibly be if she was reborn as one. We moreover get to see her most treasured plant, a Maple Leaf Begonia, which has basically essentially the most stunning leaves.

Most Pricey Plant

Like a complete lot of various plant people, Alba’s most expensive plant is a variegated Monstera. She’s acquired every a Thai Constellation and a smaller Monstera that she’s hoping might have some variegation as a result of it matures.

Chatting with Crops?

Whereas she doesn’t communicate to her vegetation, she does actually really feel like they’re choosing up on plenty of the problems she says, “I was cleaning and barely bit frazzled and I sort of noticed the vegetation started drooping. Maybe it was solely a coincidence nevertheless I really actually really feel like they do determine up on my energy.”

How She Makes Room for Her Crops

All by way of her tour, Angela reveals her love of her vegetation and as well as supplies a really perfect tip. “The best method to make room for vegetation is to get a spot that’s devoted in your vegetation. As an illustration I’ve this shelf and I don’t really use it for one thing other than vegetation.” Can you say #Shelfie?

Angela, like a complete lot of the alternative people we’ve met all through this season of Throughout the Weeds with Plant Of us, values the plant group tons, “Even once I don’t meet the plant people in particular person, they’re always quick to DM me and strike up a dialog about vegetation and I’ve met many on-line friends by this.”