About this Event
Celebrate the harvest season and grow your plant family by swapping siblings and propagating with us at Femme Fatale, DC! Plant swaps are the BEST way to connect with other plant people in your community! They are a great way to learn and expand your plant family for FREE.
As mindful gardeners, we will be grounding ourselves in the beginning of the harvest season aka Lughnasadh. It is the halfway point to the fall equinox. It’s the moment to show our infinite gratitude to Mother Earth, and hope for future harvests to come.
The event will be lead by Maryland Certified Professional Horticulturist and UMD Applied Entomology grad student, Caroline Hooks.
Date: August 1, 2021
Address: Femme Fatale DC
3409 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Tickets are free if you bring 5 or more plants or cuttings, or if you bring a potluck dish. If you are not bringing anything, tickets are $25.
Day of cash tips are greatly appreciated! (Even though this event is free, schlepping plants and supplies across the DMV is a hard labor of love!)
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Masks will be required when people are crowding around the groups of plants. We will also take your contact info at the door, just as an added safety precaution.
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1. Before the Swap!
Please leave a comment with a list plants you may bring, so that we know what category signs to make for organizing. (If you don't know at this moment, DM me on @glassceilingplants later. Please and thank you!)
Try to label your plants with their:
Name
Your social media handle
Light/ water requirements, etc.
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If you're bringing a dish please leave a comment with what entree, dessert, or alcoholic/ drink, etc. you will bring. (Again, DM me later if you need to.)
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August 1: Day of Event
2. Set up is from 2-5 pm.
Please drop your plants, food, and drinks off any time August 1 from 3 pm to 6 pm. You can organize your plants in the different categories we will make.
We would be thrilled to have extra dishes and plants, if you have any to share! Also extra volunteers are always welcome.
3. Event is 6 - 9 pm.
Plants and food are stories. We will have a short share and tell session where you have the opportunity to share a special memory, association, or special use for the plant or food you brought.
The swap will be done in shifts of 3. Each person will be counted off into group 1, 2, or 3. Each group will take turns choosing a plant from the lot. Each "shift" will be about 20 seconds, and we will cycle through until about all the plants are gone, and do a free for all for the stragglers that are left over.
If there's time left over, we will have a crash course in plant propagation where you can propagate more plants to take home. We may also collect seed present in the garden!
4. Break down is at 9 pm.
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The pictures included in this post are some of the mother plants we will be propagating daughters from, and some plants you could WIN by entering in the GIVEAWAY! There will be 3 winners who can choose their pick of one for sale plant from the shop. Available plants include red Abyssinian bananas, Washingtonia palms, Meyer lemons, potted papyrus, passionflower vine, and more.
Follow @glassceilingplants on instagram, share on your story, like and tag someone in the comment section to be entered. Each additional tag is an additional entry.
Each winner receives one plant. As always, GCP plants come with trouble shooting from a professional horticulturist, lil’ old me.
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Also please bare with us as this is the first time we are organizing a plant swap and potluck at Femme Fatale DC.
Afterwards, pop into the facebook.com/groups/glassceilingplants/, where we can continue to support each other in growing as mindful gardeners.
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Hope to see you there!
Caroline Hooks
Owner of glassceilingplants
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This is the summary of what our friends are bringing as of 7/22! Thank you! This is exciting! (I have yet to officially add my own stuff.)
Let's get goofy. Add a song to the collaborative playlist.
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Meet the host!
“Caroline Hooks (she, her), owner of glassceilingplants, is a well-seasoned intersectional horticulturist. Her work has included many different settings: a plant research facility, the landscaping industry, a tree farm, ornamental plant nurseries, a conservatory, many greenhouses, and a theme park. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and is pursuing a Masters of Professional Studies in Applied Entomology at UMD. She is also a Maryland Certified Pesticide applicator.
Horticulture was chosen by her abuser and father. The same field that she was ashamed of, slowly allowed her to grow and heal. After a long journey in a male-dominated industry, she finally loves her day job and is in CPTSD recovery. She wants to share the work she has done and the inspiration that can be drawn from mindful gardening.”
"I thought of the name ‘glassceilingplants’ while walking across the gutters of the glass greenhouse I work in. Our mission is to propagate mindful gardeners of every race, class, gender, and age; to steward ecological services and provide grounding experiences. I aim to educate people on the psychological benefits of connecting to their own nature through the organisms they can help bring life to and those organism’s seasonal phenology. (Phenology: the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.)
I want to create something like a “Master Gardener” program that is a little more edgy, targeted at Millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z. I truly believe these programs make communities stronger, though they are currently only available during working hours.
You can purchase plants propagated by yours truly at Femme Fatale DC, 3409 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008.
I also want to use this platform to share my story, advocate for child abuse victims and survivors, universal health care, and equity in general."
Find out more about GCP at glassceilingplants.com.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Femme Fatale DC, 3409 Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States
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