The Kind Window
Houseplant news, notes and know-how from a painter’s window in Asheville, North Carolina
Curiosities
Inherited, rescued, gifted: some plants carry more than leaves.
Jade plants can live for decades, and many have been passed down through families, one cutting at a time, from a grandmother's windowsill to a grandchild's kitchen.
Then there are the curbside rescues, the cuttings from a friend, and the gift that showed up on a hard day and somehow made it through everything.
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The prayer plant lays its leaves flat by day and folds them up at night. Here's how it does it.
Every plant person, about an hour before coming home with the soil… and four new plants.
The honest answer: not by much. Where the idea came from, and what the research says.
