Plant Marketing

“There's a party

…and you're not invited.”

That's the feeling I get from most traditional marketing I come into contact with. It has a desperate feeling of exclusion mixed with feigned urgency.

But what about the way plants do marketing? Through fruit. Through pollination. By quietly turning sunlight into food and trusting that what's good will be found. Then sustaining life through deliciousness.

A peach tree doesn't send you urgent emails about limited-time sweetness. It just makes peaches. When they're ready, the right creatures come for them.

Plants spread their seeds by creating something worth spreading. The fruit is the message and the medium. The value is built in.

What if we create actual abundance because we care more?

What if the marketing was a better quality thing itself?

There's something about patience, too. Plants grow slowly and they take their time to root well. Quality finds its way to the right people.

Let the fiber, nutrients, and deliciousness do the talking for you.

Let it grow (A message to myself)

Overwatering is widely recognized as one of the most common causes of houseplant death.

All projects in our lives are plants experiencing real, natural cycles.

Air, sun, water, and nutrients are required. Adequate space in the garden, too.

Most of all, we need patience.

The hardest thing for some of us to do is downshift.

I don’t need to keep checking on the plant.

Let it grow.

Night gardens

What more can we find?

When standing in a museum, we can gaze at a painting. I have done this my whole life, thanks to my Mom’s work as a museum docent and art historian.

Mom is a master of pulling both her children and visitors into art via storytelling. She continues to use the classic three questions posed by museum docents to visitors called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS):

  • What do you see?

  • What makes you say that?

  • What more can we find?

These questions are worthy of additional gaze.

When we peer down one of the streets leading to our home, we might ask ourselves what we see… palm trees, mototaxis, refresco fruit drinks, and people selling food on the street.

What makes me say that?

People, color, noise, chaos, and life.

Why?

Because of how it makes me feel.

What more could I find?

Today, I found a small printed newspaper talking about alien invasions available at the regular newsstand.

The incredible miracle of human existence is that there is always more we can find.