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I’m so happy to see the renewed popularity of
houseplants, especially with people in their 20s and
30s. Research is showing that millennials may be
waiting longer to have children and even fur babies
(aka pets), but judging from my Instagram, plant
babies are in. I agree, having plants and flowers
around the house is as much a part of winter for me
as a high heating bill.
Here is a report on my current roster of houseplant
roomies. Like many of you, I can’t resist planting a few
amaryllis bulbs. Their exuberant trumpets—especially
the odder types like
interior Cybisters, Nymphs,

and Miniatures—
make a bold visual
LIFE statement against a it’s time to give the dish garden a drink. I know that

snowy window.
I experimented years
back with more
giant split-leaf philodendron and a neem oil sponge
unusual flowering scale (again, yuck) will eventually reemerge on my
plants that I bought from specialty sources like Logee’s bath will go on the to-do list. Some plants complain so
and Glasshouse Works. I loved the challenge of coaxing little that it’s hard to remember to water them at all.
star jasmine, night-blooming cestrum, brunfelsia, and I have an old prickly pear that I think might be alive?
citrus into bloom. But my fantasy ended too quickly But I’m not sure.
under dry, furnace-heated air and the inevitable sticky Scrolling through my Instagram feed and seeing
scourge of scale. Yuck. accounts of the houseplant obsessed like
I love my nonblooming plants as well. Currently @houseplantclub, @thesill, @blackgirlswithgardens, or
I have a group of stalwart characters that can handle @thehorticult, I’m encouraged about the next
the neglect of their absentee dad when I’m on the road: generations. Maybe having a living thing around that
two philodendrons, a variegated monstera (she’s a little has straightforward, uncomplicated needs is a welcome
fussy), Chinese money plant, a ‘Golden Gem’ ficus, and respite from the complexities of modern digital life.
a Sansevieria cylindrica. But if any one starts looking Like cooking, tending to houseplants—watering,
too wan and tired, I’m not afraid of chucking it and feeding, rotating them for balanced growth, dealing
starting fresh. They get only tough love. My other with pests—grounds me and countless others. This
favorite is a dish garden of small tropicals I made over year, maybe I’ll even try
three years ago. Even though the plants are huddled African violets, a childhood
together in only a few inches of soil, they are very easy favorite, again. But I’m being
to take care of (see page 72). strict not to overpack my space
Over time, like with any cohabitation situation, you with plants. It may be a frozen
STEPHEN ORR,
start to learn the rhythms of your plants. When the wasteland outside, but it’s Editor in Chief PHOTO: MELANIE ACEVEDO/SARAH LAIRD

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way to display her kitchenwares: a wall of assorted cubbies.

A handmade teapot.
Her grandmother’s
vase. Vintage Pyrex
baking dishes. These
are a few of the
collectibles Tanya
Watson longed to
display in her Ontario,
Canada, home. She
also likes keeping her
everyday dishes and
glasses out in the open.
So she and her
husband replaced

the old standard wall
cabinets with simple
wooden boxes that
they built, creating a
series of niches and
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arrangement looks
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carefully planned
each cubby’s size
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something custom.
Often what I
create is better
quality and more
environmentally
friendly than what
we could buy.”

BEST DIY SKILL
”Fearlessness. It
never occurs to me
that I can’t do
something. One of
my first projects was
painting my car.”

4 5 6 EVERY
HOME NEEDS
“Something
PREP had, new laminated each cubby in place everything look so handmade.”
pine shelving, and while she drilled seamless,” Tanya says.
1 Tanya mapped
plywood for the through the back. BEST WAY TO
out the cubbies with FINISH SPEND $50
backs) then glued Each cubby required
painters tape, sizing 6 After the caulk “A can of paint
them together. two screws in a
them for a few specifi c cured, she painted and a trip to the
pieces and stacks SECURE stud and two into the cubbies with a thrift store.”
drywall anchors.
of dishes. Using a stud 3 Tanya clamped semigloss paint using
fi nder and a pencil, each cubby and SAND AND a 2-inch angled brush CAN’T LIVE
WITHOUT
she marked studs and reinforced the joints 5CAULK and a small roller. ”My spouse … and
wires to ensure each with a nail gun. A belt Tanya lightly sanded When the paint pups … and our
cubby overlapped sander smoothed the the installed cubbies dried, she lightly backyard chickens.
at least one stud sides and corners and with fine sandpaper sanded the surfaces,
and that she wouldn’t removed excess glue. and filled nail and wiped off the dust Wherever they
hit wires during INSTALL screw holes with wood with a damp cloth, are feels like home.”
installation. filler. She also applied and applied another PLAN TO LEARN
4 Mounting the
CUT AND cubbies was a two- paintable caulk to the coat. She repeated “My father-in-law
2ASSEMBLE person job. Working inside seams and these steps until she has promised
where cubbies meet achieved an to teach me to use
Tanya cut the pieces from the bottom up,
the wall. “Taking the ultrasmooth fi nish. a wood lathe.
(a combo of white Tanya’s husband held
time to do this made I’m so excited!” ■
painted planks she

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