Horticulture

PLANTED on instagram

Despite the constant clickbait headlines about humans obsessed with their phones, gardening is alive and well—and you can find the proof on Instagram. Here are three gardeners who use the social-media site to celebrate plants and gardens.

THE HORTICULT

“There were a couple of moments from my elementary school days that I remember having a profound effect on me,” says Chantal Aida Gordon, thinking back to her first encounters with growing green things. “For St. Patrick’s Day, we cut out a shamrock shape of paper and sowed grass seeds of our choice on it. I think mine was Kentucky blue.

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