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plantkween A Brooklyn-based Black queer non-binary kween
Obsessed with the botanical scene, hunny
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10/16/2026

A little autumn reminder, gurl: nature doesn’t need everything to be neat and tidy to thrive! 🍂🌿

Somewhere along the way, we started confusing a well-maintained garden with a perfectly manicured one. But ecological health isn’t measured by how spotless our landscapes look.

In fact, our obsession with tidiness can come at a cost. Across urban and suburban landscapes, the little pockets of habitat we preserve can make a meaningful difference for local biodiversity.

And here’s something worth remembering, hunny: conservation doesn’t always require grand gestures, expensive projects, or acres of land. Sometimes it begins with questioning the everyday habits we’ve been taught are necessary.

So this autumn, I invite you to rethink what a beautiful garden looks like. Make a little room for the wild, the imperfect, and the wonderfully untamed.

Because dahling, not everything that looks messy is out of place. Sometimes it’s exactly where it belongs. 💚

10/15/2026

What if we stopped judging a garden only by what’s blooming? 🌾

Piet Oudolf’s planting style asks us to notice the entire life cycle of a plant. Texture, movement, seed heads, dried stems, grasses, and winter silhouettes can be just as important to a composition as flowers.

That means a garden isn’t necessarily “finished” when summer ends. As plants fade and go dormant, new forms and relationships become visible.

The new Oudolf Garden at gives us a reason to return throughout the seasons—and a reminder that transformation can be part of the beauty, too. 🌿

Explore more at plantingfields.org!

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10/14/2026

Agroecology (noun) 🌱

From agro-, relating to agriculture, and ecology, from the Greek oikos meaning “home” and logos meaning “study.”

Agroecology is an approach to farming that considers the relationships between soil, water, crops, biodiversity, climate and people—not as separate parts, but as one connected system.

And maybe there’s something human in that, too.

We spend so much time trying to fix one piece of our lives at a time, when sometimes the real shift comes from paying attention to the relationships between the pieces. What nourishes us, what drains us, what surrounds us, and what conditions allow us to grow.

That interconnected thinking also shows up in the work of Action Against Hunger USA, where local knowledge, resources and environmental conditions can shape how communities strengthen their food systems.

Agroecology.

Plant that one in your vocabulary. 🌿

🎥 Meredith ✊🏾🌈

10/12/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of choosing yourself is accepting that you cannot say yes to everything and everyone without eventually saying no to some part of yourself.

And that realization can be uncomfortable, especially when you’ve spent so much of your life being available, accommodating, and understanding.

But there is something beautiful about learning to honor your own needs without feeling obligated to explain them away. About recognizing that your time, your energy, and your peace are worthy of the same care you so freely extend to others.

And dahling, not every decision that moves your life forward will feel easy in the moment. Some will come with uncertainty, disappointment, or even a little guilt. That doesn’t mean you’re making the wrong choice.

Give yourself permission to make room for the life you’re growing into. You deserve to experience what becomes possible when you stop abandoning yourself to keep everything else intact.

Sincerely,
Plant Kween 💚

Being away these past few days has given me some much-needed space to slow down, reflect, and think about the many versi...
10/11/2026

Being away these past few days has given me some much-needed space to slow down, reflect, and think about the many versions of myself I’ve been along the way.

And on National Coming Out Day, I find myself thinking about one in particular: a flamboyant little queen who had no idea just how beautifully life would unfold.

So today, a little letter to my younger self. 🌈

Dear little Christopher,

One day, you’ll understand just how extraordinary it was to grow up surrounded by love that never asked you to be anything other than yourself.

A family that saw you, celebrated you, and gave every beautiful part of your identity room to blossom.

Hold that love close, hunny. It is a privilege not everyone is afforded.

There will be moments when the world makes you question the things that make you different. But never confuse being different with being less deserving of belonging.

The parts of yourself the world struggles to understand may be the very parts that make your presence in it so necessary.

And as you grow, I hope you remember that the love you’ve been given is also something you can give. That the freedom to be yourself becomes even more meaningful when you help create that freedom for someone else.

Because every one of us deserves a life where we are not merely tolerated, but seen, celebrated, and loved in our fullness.

And to anyone reading this who is still finding their way, who is learning to love the parts of themselves they once felt compelled to hide:

May you never mistake the world’s inability to see your beauty for an absence of it.

Happy National Coming Out Day. 💚🌈

10/08/2026

There’s a difference between seeing a beautiful landscape and learning how to read one. 🌿

At Planting Fields, the Olmsted Brothers used pathways, mature trees, open lawns, and framed views to shape how visitors move through the landscape. A turn in a path can delay a view; trees can frame architecture; moving from woodland into an open lawn can completely shift your sense of space.

It’s a reminder that landscape architecture isn’t just about what gets planted—it’s also about how a place makes us move, look, and feel.

Next time you visit a historic garden, pay attention to where the landscape is guiding your eye. You may start seeing the design everywhere.

Explore more at plantingfields.org!

🎥 Meredith ✊🏾🌈

10/05/2026

Sometimes familiarity can feel a lot like comfort, especially when the seasons change and we start craving warmth, connection, and something familiar to hold onto.

But not everything that feels familiar deserves another season of your life.

You can miss something and still know it wasn’t good for you. You can remember the good without reopening the door. And you can feel lonely for a moment without filling that space with something you already worked hard to outgrow.

Let the season change without changing your standards.

There’s warmth ahead that won’t require you to abandon what you’ve learned to receive it. 🍂

10/04/2026

Dahling, did you know? 🌿✨ Monstera deliciosa ‘Thai Constellation’ gets its name from the creamy, star-like speckling across its leaves—but there’s a lot more going on here than pretty variegation.

A few things I find fascinating:

🌿 Those creamy sections come with a trade-off. They contain significantly less chlorophyll, which means the greener parts of the leaf are doing more of the photosynthesizing. More variegation may be beautiful to us, but it means less photosynthetically active tissue for the plant.

🌿 Its variegation is relatively stable. ‘Thai Constellation’ is known for maintaining its characteristic speckled pattern, and tissue culture has helped make this once-harder-to-find plant much more widely available.

🌿 Letting it climb can change how it grows. Monstera deliciosa is naturally a climber. Providing substantial vertical support can encourage larger, more mature leaves and increasingly complex fenestrations.

🌿 Those aerial roots are part of the strategy. In nature, they help the plant anchor itself as it climbs. Indoors, they can be guided toward a support or back into the substrate.

🌿 And one of my favorite propagation facts: a leaf can have roots and still never become a new plant. A Monstera cutting needs a node with a viable axillary bud to produce a new shoot. 🌱

Come for the variegation, stay for the plant biology. 🌿

🪴 from Ishy's Plants LLC
🎥 Meredith ✊🏾🌈

10/01/2026

Maybe the lesson is to stop being embarrassed by the things that bring you joy.

Be excited. Get dressed up. Decorate too early. Romanticize the season. Take the picture. Make the plans. Be a little ridiculous.

Life gives us enough reasons to be serious.

When something gives you a reason to light up, let it. 🎃🍂

Consider this your permission slip to be entirely too excited about something.

09/30/2026

Allostasis (noun) 🌿

The word comes from the Greek allos, meaning “other” or “different,” and stasis, meaning “standing” or “stability.”

Put together: stability through change.

In biology, allostasis describes how the body maintains stability not by keeping everything exactly the same, but by adjusting to changing demands. Heart rate shifts. Hormones fluctuate. Energy gets redirected. The body anticipates what might be needed and adapts.

And I keep thinking about how different that is from the way we’re often taught to understand stability.

We imagine being grounded means staying still. Keeping the same routine. Moving at the same pace. Being able to handle what we handled before.

But sometimes maintaining yourself requires changing how you move through the world.

More rest.
Different boundaries.
A slower pace.
A new rhythm.
Less capacity for one thing so you can have more for another.

Maybe stability isn’t always about returning to who you were.

Sometimes it’s learning what this version of you needs in order to keep going.

🎥 Meredith ✊🏾🌈

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