Monstera

I am not a white bisexual, on my inner upper arm.

And then I have a Monstera and a butterfly.

And they're so cute and pretty, but they remind me that I get to reclaim my body and what my body looks like and what my body does.

And speaking of that, today's guest is Temi Wilkey, who is deeply talented.

But I've got a couple.

I just don't have the variegated Monstera.

Oh, yeah.

We've been having a lot of really cool

Monstera.

I saw one yesterday.

I was downstairs.

So I'm going to give you some questions with that.

So for the first one, would you say you would love to have a Monstera or a fiddle leaf fig? Monstera, easily.

Okay.

So if anyone's listening, that's kind of like the Swiss cheese, I would say.

You know, it's like picking a favorite child, I think.

Right now, I'm really, really digging the beauty of Monstera Thai Constellation.

Oh,

yeah.

It has these big, gorgeous leaves.

They're fenestrated, which means they have holes, and it's variegated with white.

There's a newer selection of Monstera called Monstera Mayuna Variegated that has elongated leaves that are variegated with chartreuse.

And it's a faster grower.

And so I'm thinking of something like An oxalis, that would be more of a top two inches that don't want to, you check if they're dry, then you water.

But if you have something like a Monstera, it could go more into the 50% to the 75% dry in the pot.

So my fingers, I have, I'm a tiny human, so I have tiny fingers.

And so if I were to stick my finger in the top two inches, I would be missing out on half of the pot or more.

His nose wrinkles at the sour smell of my sweat, but he doesn't resist when I push his arms into the sleeve and pull up the hood.

The faded Monstera print covers up his fountain spray of blonde hair.

Once he's disguised, I pull the tie out of my own wirier brown hair.

If it frames my face, I might blend in more.

It's cool.

But, you know, there's someone who came in the other day and he wanted to book a Monstera makeover, which is one of the services that we offer.

And he's like, oh, this Monstera is really big.

And he is like one of my first customer highlights on my social media of someone who bought a Monstera from us.

And so I was like, oh, my God, is that Monstera that you bought that you're going to sneak over? Because I have this photo and be so fun to get a photo of you like have this sort of 2021.

And then you now in 2026 with the same Monstera photo.

But, so, it's fun seeing, you know, regular people and seeing people come in and everything like that.

One out of the blue question.

flower from the book and follow the steps and draw it and show it to each other.

And then one day I drew a really good leaf and I think it was a Monstera leaf.

And I was like, what if I could paint this leaf? And, um, I'm friends with Amy Stewart and she is a great artist.

writer and has written lots of books about the plant world and a great historical fiction series about the first female um sheriff in the u.s it's because of the cop sisters so if you haven't read those i highly recommend i haven't read those really good um but Amy is also an artist and she has always like one thing she's always said is art is a skill anybody can learn it and so I chose to believe her and then she also had some skillshare classes so and she's very into urban sketching which is like going out and sketching on location and that really appealed to me again so I could like sit out in nature and sit out with plants And so I watched her classes and like she had a class on greens and she had a class on perspective and all of that.