A Plantsman’s Pots
Pot gardening is now fully legal in Washington State, yet savvy gardeners have been practitioners of the craft for centuries. Containerized plants were the gateway drug for most of the horticulturally obsessed of my generation. Embarrassingly, I still possess two of my original houseplants. In the event you might think me a caring and devoted flower child of the ’60s, know that these are two I could easily have left in a closet for a decade—or two—and they still would have survived.
One of my first houseplants, , a caudiciform in the milkweed family from Africa, continues to thrive through my neglect. My parents adopted the other, , when I left, which I have raised from seed and which blossoms dependably for me all winter along the southern wall of the hall, are the only true houseplants I tend.
