How to Care for Prayer Plants
Once you master prayer plant care, you'll have a tropical showstopper to add elegance to your home
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Nancy Stedman
Buxton, Maine
Expertise: Gardening, houseplants
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Nancy Stedman
- Master gardener, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
- Inducted into the Master Gardener hall of fame
Experience
Nancy Stedman has been growing perennials, herbs, and vegetables for over 25 years. She started by growing houseplants indoors and and teaches adult education classes on caring for them. Nancy and her husband turned her hobby into a business that now organically grows over 7,000 annuals and perennials for cutting every year. Nancy always likes to try new and improved flower varieties.
Nancy has been a master gardener for over fourteen years through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and has been inducted into the Master Gardener hall of fame. She teaches adult education classes and has been featured in Downeast and People, Places, and Plants magazines. She lives her husband Bruce, two Maine Coon cats, and a flock of chickens on their 110 acre organic farm.
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