PlanTer

Enjoy the option of suspending your favorite plant with this modern style suspension pot. Digital fabrication. Joannie was planting an asparagus plant in the ‘PlanTer,’ a peach-colored pot that had the flexibility to be suspended from any wall of her choosing. She decided it would be the perfect pick-me-up after coming home from the hospital. Her mother, Darlene, was diagnosed with heart disease in recent years--and much to Joannie’s dismay-- Darlene had just suffered a minor stroke. Given her mother’s age, Joannie was riddled with worry. And when she worried, she stepped out onto her spacious front porch and looked after her plants. Joannie figured that if she couldn’t control the situation that caused her to fret, she could at least control and give aid to her ferns and tropicals. While the earthy smell of the soil and promising touch of the asparagus fern seeds helped her to relax, it did little to steer Joannie’s mind away from her mother, as Darlene had been the one to introduce her to gardening as a little girl. As Joannie remembers it, her father, Earl, would work long hours as a public defender in Boston to provide for their big family while Darlene was a stay-at-home-mom looking after five children. On especially sunny days, Darlene would take Joannie, her three sisters and brother to the backyard garden of their colonial style home and teach them how to plant dahlias and pansies. Darlene was creative in her teaching tactics, as she would tell the children that the soil was a small city in which ants, worms, and other insects lived, and that they needed flowers for shelter. And to this day, Joannie would never kill an insect. Her engaging and extraordinary ways of communicating with children would have made Darlene a wonderful school teacher, Joannie thought. Maybe there was still time for her to do so. After flattening the soil and seeds into the ‘PlanTer,’ she decided that the next morning she would suspend the plant from the dull sterile wall in her mother’s hospital room for some inspiration and liveliness. Joannie also heard that asparagus ferns were symbolic of a healthy and pure heart. Made in Brooklyn