Real Life Plant Parents: Camille
This week’s Plant Parent is Camille, who has loved being around nature and plants since she was a little girl and now has a thriving plant collection that has mostly grown from cuttings of single leaves! That is some impressive plant parenting. We had so much fun getting to know Camille and hope you love her story.
An early start
Camille learned very early in life that nature was fascinating and endlessly beautiful to her, and she started a lifelong love of plants from childhood.
Plants are not inanimate objects to me, they are seriously friends and a huge form of therapy. I was always barefoot in the garden as a little girl, curiously observing and inspecting everything in our backyard. I remember slowly creeping through the garden and being amazed at just how much life could be found in one square foot of land. There were so many different plants and insects, sights, textures and smells; I was hooked! I made it clear at a very young age that I needed my own vegetable garden because food grown at home tasted better and that I needed sunflowers taller than be to be against the fence to protect me and my veggies. A year later, I was begging to have plants in my bedroom, I was obsessed with the idea of my room feeling like a garden! My mom found me English Ivy which quickly took over my walls, and from there I remember trying plants like Pothos, Ferns, Venus Fly Traps and seasonal plants like Poinsettia in winter and Tulips or Hyacinth in spring.
