You don’t need a house to have a houseplant

This is just a little inspirational story.

The neighborhood Seed Library where I volunteer holds seed and plant swaps on a corner with lots of foot traffic a few times a year.  Houseplants are always a very popular giveaway because we have a lot of apartment dwellers passing by.

A couple years back a woman came by looking rather sad and desperate and asked “what do you have that I can grow?”  So I asked what sort of space she had, and she said she didn’t have any space at all, she was living in her car, but she saw all the plants and really wanted to have a little plant of her own. So we gave her a little coleus in a plastic cup, and I think a spider plant, and she put them on her dashboard in front of her very cracked windshield and said she was so happy to have them.

The next year I saw her again at another neighborhood event, and she had found some better housing by then, but she still remembered getting joy form those little plants during her hard times.

Mk Neal wrote:This is just a little inspirational story.

The neighborhood Seed Library where I volunteer holds seed and plant swaps on a corner with lots of foot traffic a few times a year.  Houseplants are always a very popular giveaway because we have a lot of apartment dwellers passing by.

A couple years back a woman came by looking rather sad and desperate and asked “what do you have that I can grow?”  So I asked what sort of space she had, and she said she didn’t have any space at all, she was living in her car, but she saw all the plants and really wanted to have a little plant of her own. So we gave her a little coleus in a plastic cup, and I think a spider plant, and she put them on her dashboard in front of her very cracked windshield and said she was so happy to have them.

The next year I saw her again at another neighborhood event, and she had found some better housing by then, but she still remembered getting joy form those little plants during her hard times.

What a great story.  I needed to hear that today, thank you.

Yeah, this is great!

Many years ago, when cars still had pull-out ashtrays, I was once picked up hitchhiking by someone who had filled his ashtray with dirt and had a little cactus growing in it. I was charmed.