Find Your Climate and Your Soil

Send us Fan MailFind Your Climate and Your SoilMy mother loves plants and flowers. When I was growing up back in Nebraska, she kept a flower bed full of perennials and a living room full of house plants. One in particular, I remember being in the living room 10-15 years. It was healthy. It always remained the same size in the same pot.When my folks retired, they moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. Mom took most of her plants with her and miraculously, in my mind at least, they survived the journey. Once in Florida, the climate and soil being favorable, she decided to take that plant and put it outside in the soil. Some time passed and I visited again. At some point mom takes me outside and shows me this big beautiful tree bush. It was huge and healthy. Then mom informed me that it was the same relatively small plant that lived in her living room for a decade and a half. The transformation was amazing. It took the right climate and the right soil for that plant to thrive. It survived just fine in its small pot back in Nebraska, but it didn’t thrive. It’s true we need to survive first. But eventually we have to plant ourselves in the right climate and the right soil to really thrive. Support the show