It's hilarious to me how popular monsteras are all of the sudden. Just go to houses of immigrants from the tropics we *been* had these.
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There's a whole feature story to be written about older generations of black and brown immigrants that really made houseplants a thing tbh.
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Really I wanna read a story about how older immigrants to LA from different tropical regions traded houseplant cuttings.
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And how so many younger black and brown immigrants learned our houseplants skills from parents and grandparents... Write *that* please.
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Write about the one vine that someone in your family somehow smuggled into US and is now its own jungle in a corner of a house 30 yrs later.
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I grew surrounded by plants indoors & out, grow some tropical varieties as a mom & would
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Is there something I can read about gardening as an immigrant?
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Moved a lot. I remember filling back of car with tons of plants while my brother & I sat squished with the luggage driving cross country.
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An uncle would joke that my grandmother had more jungle in her home than he saw at Vietnam
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My mom used to make us a *Caribbean Xmas tree* by decorating one of her baby palm plants
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