Houseplant Tour: My Restorative Plant Corner // Why Plant Care Truly is Self Care
Channel: Growing Joy with Maria
Date: 2020-11-24

Today I show you my FAVORITE corner of my (temporary) home which is filled with about 80% of my entire plant collection. This is my restorative planty corner when I can disconnect from screens and reconnect with myself and nature through my plant collection. 

Speaking of restorative spaces, I've learned a LOT about attention restoration theory and studies behind how plants actually can improve our well being, and I share some things I've recently learned about the Plant/Person Connection in my last Intro to Horticultural Therapy in this video. I hope these tidbits are as interesting to you as they are to me!

If you're interested in learning more about Restorative Environments, check out Episode 108 of Bloom and Grow Radio Podcast where I interview my Horticultural Therapy teacher on a deep dive on this concept and she shares strategies on how we can apply them to our lives.https://plnk.to/BAGR?to=page

Let me know how you are using plants as restorative tools in the comments!

Timestamps
2:00 : Review Stephen Kaplan's study on restorative environments and how to create them in our homes: Being Away, Fascination,   Extent, Compatibility 
4:50: Tour of my Restorative Planty Corner and how I put it together
6:10: Some highlights of some of my favorite houseplants and grow shelf Monstera peru, Philodendron micans, angel wing begonia, purple oxalis, cebu blue pothos, begonia ruby red
10:14: I share what I've been most curious about and what I'm dedicating more time researching for our plant community
11:00: my favorite (and stupidly simple) restorative practices in my plant corner

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