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Since moving into my home in 2020, I’ve been collecting and taking care of plants. This initially started as a means to decorate the space, but I didn’t think the upkeep was going to be a ritual akin to having pets. I have over 30 plants in my care, all of which are dearly named after my friends (so that I’m reminded to check in on them too). I send my friends progress photos of their plant counterpart, like when any auspicious new leaves appear.
Many of my plants are having babies (like the Polly Joestar line), which I’m looking forward to sharing with others by way of my new nursery, when that launches. I’m making space here to create plant care guides for myself and new plant parents who are interested in learning more.
About Jojo’s Plant Nursery
TLDR;
Jojo’s Plant Nursery — based on my pileas that are named after the main characters in Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure — is a limited plant nursery for my propagated plants, for new and curious people who want low-investment entry to plant parenthood
In 2018, I visited a plant shop in Copenhagen with Polly. There was nothing spectacular about it, I’m not really sure why I wanted to go in there, but there was something about it that I was drawn to.
I think at this point in my life I felt a lot of joy from travel, my career, and people that I was excited and inspired to do things. So this curiosity made me feel wonder for a lot of boring things — it’s a pleasant mental space to be in.
Polly in Copenhagen, one of my favourite and well-prepared trip buddies
Interesting baby feet planters that I was curious about
My all-time favourite travel shoes are my Nike Cortez, a random thing I wanted to share alongside these plants and my shiny shins
Unfortunately what I don’t have photos of, is the corner of the shop where I saw what I thought was the most majestic and inspiring plant: a dainty Pilea (I later realized that pileas are fucking everywhere and p basic but this was my first encounter bc what r plants). I loved it because how does nature know to make leaves so round and flat and suspended in air like that?
Anyway, I knew I had to have it when I got home. I moved into my home in 2020 and my first purchase was Polly, the Pilea.
I didn’t know too much about taking care of her, but my will for her to live was strong!! I didn’t understand a lot of things like why she kept withering, or why her leaves weren’t as round as the ones in Copenhagen. All of the things. But she was resilient, and I was hopeful to see her thrive.
And thrive she did: as my plant collection grew, she also started making babies. I didn’t like how it looked (though it was a natural occurrence and you don’t need to cut them all the time), so I decided to propagate, another thing I wasn’t too familiar with. We did it anyway.
It got overwhelming fast. I don’t have enough friends to name my Pollys after, and I feel like it needed to have some sort of relation to Polly (like my pothos, Kat, where I have named her offspring Meeps, named after IRL Kat’s cat). I felt like naming clippings after spouses is bad luck (I also don’t know them like that). So I decided to name them all based on the Joestar line in Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure. Yes, all of them: Joseph Polly, Jotaro Polly, Josuke Polly, Giorno Polly, Jolene Polly.
Jolene
Giorno
Josuke
Joseph and his fucking offspring
OP Jotaro
And they keep coming.
So I’ve decided to give the rest away. I don’t need anymore. There is no more in the line to name (other than the ominous baby Joseph holds). I hope to find homes for these clippings, once I’ve propagated and put them in planters. Hence why I’ve started Jojo’s Plant Nursery. And in true graphic design fashion, I made this a design exercise:
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If you’re interested in a planter, please let me know and I will keep you in mind.