08/18/2023
So, you got a plant for your desk. Now what? 😬🤷🌱
I have a long story, if you feel so inclined....
Several years ago, my best friend bought me this cute little Fiddle Leaf Fig. I loved it, I knew immediately it would find a home on my office desk, that conveniently had a great window. I was stoked! It was so cute and pretty! So I bring it to my office and lovingly place it near said window, and that was the moment it clicked for me.
I. Love. Plants. I wanted to KNOW this tree. It was MY TREE. A WHOLE TREE! It may not walk or talk (back😂) to me, but it's alive. It breathes. It grows. It needs nutrients and a solid fountain to thrive. But how? So I got curious. I started documenting.
Then I started reading. Learning. What can I do, to make this tree as healthy as I can, and live it's best life.
I know how happy that little tree makes me. Why wouldn't I want this for other people? Why wouldn't I want to share this? So I started talking about plants to anyone that would listen, my friends started asking me for advice on theirs. It became a passion.
Oh, did I forget to mention that at the time, I was working a government job, during the beginning of the pandemic, in unemployment benefits? If you ever wanted a reason to feel sad, try reading the heart breaking, hand written letters from people not being able to pay their mortgage, tuition, cancer medical bills, fresh widows that needed jobs now being on one income. It was awful.
If that tree could bring me the happiness that it did, in the environment I was working in, WHY WOULDN'T I SHARE THAT?
It's been with me ever since and has also outgrown the office that I eventually left, to start at Jackson's ❤️🌱 to which fast forward a little over 2 years, and I'm now in the beginning stages of my own company, Green Thumb Floriculture Design and Installation LLC. Alongside still working in bed maintenance.
My vision is to provide commercial properties with the greenery that I, looking back now, needed in a workplace. I want to help. I love people and making relationships, and I want people to love where they are, when they're there. Let me help you achieve this. Green Thumb WANTS to help you.