Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care & Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent

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Kamili Bell Hill

Happy Plants, Happy You

A Plant-Care & Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent

Kamili Bell Hill

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Cool Springs Press
05 September 2023

Gardening: flowers; House plants; Container gardening

"In Happy Plants, Happy You, author Kamili Bell Hill of @PlantBlerd shows you that spending quality time with your plants is spending quality time with yourself. Houseplants are so much more than a living decorative accent for your home or a relaxing hobby, and caring for houseplants should not be a mindless task. Instead, it's an opportunity to check in with yourself as you check in with your plants. You'll learn how houseplants can help you avoid burnout and bring a healthy focus to your own self-care. As it turns out, when you tend to your houseplants, you're also tending to yourself.

Houseplants have a lot of lessons to teach about relationships and the importance of a little give and take, including how to focus on the ones who love you back and how-like getting rid of a dead leaf or a mealybug-sometimes you gotta cut bait and bail on relationships that are bringing you down. Author Kamili Bell Hill used houseplants to exit the stress highway that was overtaking her life and she knows they can do the same for you.

Easy houseplant-care tips to help build your confidence in growing, combined with wise and witty words on everything from managing ""devil-spawn fungus gnats"" to making your houseplant leaves shine like the top of the Chrysler Building, Happy Plants, Happy You is part self-exploration, part houseplant handbook. In a nutshell, it's a plant-based roadmap to a happier you.

You'll get the lowdown on: How to choose the right plants for you as a person, not just for your growing conditions

Advice on avoiding ""vampire relationships"" with plants (and people!) that suck you dry

A wish list of the best tools for houseplant parents

How to date several plants before settling on the best ones for you

The art of letting go of things that aren't thriving

Giving up on the illusion of control-and being totally okay with it

As your plants grow, you will too. Houseplants are a guilt-free path to peace, and the result of stepping into an intentional plant-care/self-care routine will be happy plants and a happy you."

By: Kamili Bell Hill
Imprint: Cool Springs Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm,
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780760379509
ISBN 10: 0760379505
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

INTRODUCTION How Plants Can Bring You Peace My Journey to Plant Mamahood— The Path to Peace CHAPTER 1 The To-Do List How Adding Houseplants to Your To-Do List Translates to Self-Care, Not to More Work CHAPTER 2 Save a Little Something for Yourself Use Houseplants to Turn Borderline Burn-Out into Personal Growth. Plus, the Best Plants to Get You Started CHAPTER 3 Water Yourself Houseplant Cultivation Tips That Also Cultivate YOU CHAPTER 4 Would You Date That Plant? The Power of Reciprocity in Human and Plant Relationships—and the Art of Letting Go CHAPTER 5 A Date with Yourself Learn How to Pause with Plants. Time Spent with Your Plants is Time Spent with Yourself CHAPTER 6 Gratuitous Beauty Finding the Best Houseplants for Your Space and Appreciating the Beauty They Bring to Your Daily Life CHAPTER 7 There Is No One-Size-Fits-All A Twisty Journey to a Green Thumb—Sometimes Plants Die. Try Again. CHAPTER 8 Plant Care Is Self-Care (And It’s Badass!) Check In on Yourself by Checking In on Your Plants RESOURCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Kamili Bell Hill combines her love of plants and design to curate a brand and community known as PlantBlerd where she partners beautiful houseplants with simple care information and words of encouragement, using engaging language and humor that is widely relatable. PlantBlerd serves as both a style and a growing guide. After noticing a lack of social media platforms highlighting houseplant collectors that look like her, she established BlackPeople.wPlants which features Black houseplant collectors from around the world. Kamili is a voracious reader, a lover of the arts, and a certified Potter Head (as in Harry Potter). She put a career in law on hold to pursue her true passion of interior design and quickly realized the important role plants play in her clients' designs.

Reviews for Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care & Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent

"“Prepare to feel inspired after reading Kamili's all-too-relatable book illustrating how the plant hobby offers a respite from the burnout of hustle culture. This book is perfect for those looking to take their plant care more seriously and take their lives more lightheartedly."" * Lindsay of alltheplantbabies.com * “Happy Plants, Happy You does a great job illustrating the life of a plant parent. Kamili really brings readers in by sharing personal accounts around her successes and failures with plants. A nice bonus was how the book brilliantly demonstrates leading a life of intentionality and pursuing things that make you passionate with statements like ""why do we stop daydreaming at a certain age."" There are also a wealth of accessible plant care tips and tricks featured so that plant people of all experience levels have practical knowledge to take with them as they continue their plant parenthood journey.” * Tyler from @thatplantguy_ty * ""A fun, inventive, and worthwhile addition to any library and for all sorts of plant parents. This is much more than a book about caring for houseplants."" -- Sarah Filiberto * Library Journal * ""This book takes plant life to the next level. The relationship Kamili Hill has with plants is equal to what goes into her personal life."" * Washington Gardener *"