{"id":111542,"date":"2020-11-14T01:55:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/indoor-trees-are-the-hot-new-plant-trend\/"},"modified":"2020-11-14T01:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T22:55:36","slug":"indoor-trees-are-the-hot-new-plant-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/indoor-trees-are-the-hot-new-plant-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"#indoor trees are the hot new plant trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#indoor trees are the hot new plant trend<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n A tree grows in a walk-up in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Lockdown brought on a wave of nostalgic video gaming, the sourdough-starter craze and now, ambitious indoor landscaping. With New Yorkers still stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, longtime plant parents and new collectors alike are testing the limits of their green thumbs. They\u2019re passing up simple, low-maintenance succulents for space-stealing trees and exotic shrubs in an effort to beautify their apartments and invite more nature into the urban jungle.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as people were locked in their homes, they realized how miserable their apartments were, so they decided to flush it with plants,\u201d Amelia Fieldhouse, a sales rep at Greenery Unlimited in Greenpoint, told The Post.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Bushwick resident said sales at work \u201cshot up\u201d once the pandemic hit, and she understands the impulse. She keeps about 120 plants in her own apartment, including a 5 1\/2-foot fiddle-leaf fig tree that\u2019s as tall as she is.<\/p>\n

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For some plant lovers, working from home is an opportunity to up their growing game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy students know me as the lady with all the plants in my Zoom background,\u201d said Yana Kucheva, 39, a sociology professor at City College. A longtime foliage fan, she estimates she has 200 plants in her two-bedroom apartment in Harlem. But she\u2019s stepped it up by cultivating crops in her less-than-tropical digs. \u201cI have a ton of LED grow lights hanging from the ceiling or from shelves,\u201d said Kucheva, which she uses to nurture pots of leafy lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and herbs.<\/p>\n

Kucheva, who also owns a fiddle-leaf fig, is the proud owner of a number of fussy miniature citrus trees \u2014 calamondin, lemon and kumquat \u2014 that each produce only a few fruits per year. In February, she scored a variegated banana tree off Instagram for $200.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just had to have it,\u201d Kucheva said. \u201cIt should produce bananas \u2014 but it hasn\u2019t yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keeping a big tree alive in a tiny apartment is a social<\/a>-media-friendly flex. But that might not be the only reason why the trend is spreading.<\/p>\n

Nick Cutsumpas, a plant consultant based in LA, said he sees a connection between the grocery shortages in the spring and the rise in apartment farming.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are graduating from houseplants to gardening and growing their own food \u2014 even on their fire escape,\u201d Cutsumpas said. \u201cSeed companies have been sold out for months.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said that caring for high-maintenance flora can be meditative. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of companies popping up selling tree varieties like birds of paradise, bonsai and citrus that require daily care,\u201d said Cutsumpas, 28. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming part of people\u2019s self-care routines.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Cutsumpas said even the most Type-A New Yorkers need to know their limits when it comes to tending crops inside. \u201cPlant selection has to start with your space,\u201d he said. \u201cI was working with a client who [had]\u2026 a Southern magnolia in a pot, and I\u2019ve never seen those grown inside. It was by a north-facing window, so it gets the least amount of light. And it was next to a heater, so it was drying out, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nick Cutsumpas<\/span>Tamara Beckwith\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He added: \u201cYou need to be honest about what you can grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fieldhouse, who keeps her apartment balmy, even in the summer, to app<\/a>ease her plants, warns that the most picturesque ones can take tons of work. \u201cThey\u2019re like grumpy old men,\u201d said Fieldhouse of the Instagram-famous fiddle-leaf fig. \u201cThe older they are, the harder it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she said she loves a good challenge. Recently, she ate a store-bought mango \u2014 not indigenous to the Northeast, let alone the city \u2014 and lovingly kept the seed. \u201cI wrapped it in a moist paper towel and stuck it to the window, so it got light,\u201d she said. \u201cOnce it rooted after a couple of weeks, I planted it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does Fieldhouse expect to reap what she\u2019s sowed? \u201cAbsolutely not. But if it does, that would be probably the best experience of my life.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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