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Keeping urban plants healthy requires committment. Too often that committment is underestimated. |
Keeping plants alive, or better yet healthy, in any environment can be a challenge.
In urban environments, where dirty litter, harsh pollutants, heat islands, and poor soil conditions abound, the challenge to maintain plant life--often non-native species--becomes much greater.
Unfortunately, this challenge is too often unmet. What results, naturally, is an eyesore of burnt-out, dead or dying plants. A symbol of neglect.
Here, then, is my advice to those folks considering plants:
Before you invest the time, effort and money in planting plants, ask yourself if you are prepared to love them.
- Will you water them each day, morning and night?
- Prune their dead branches?
- Aerate their soil?
- Sing to them?
Will you be their urban plant steward?
