So. A lot of us have always lived with a ton of houseplants, esp immigrants from the tropics whose moms filled homes with all kinds plants.
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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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Replying to @aurabogado
My girlfriend growing up shared a studio with her family and cordoned off areas with plants and called their apartment "a jungle."
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*whispers* this is basically my house
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