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Planty Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

Meet Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment with her ‘Planty Profile’.

Urban Jungle Bloggers - Plant Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

Hi everyone! We’re back with our second Planty Profile, a new blog series in which we open our website to the Urban Jungle Bloggers community and share planty stories from our fellow bloggers. Katrin is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and artist living in Cologne in Germany.

Urban Jungle Bloggers - Plant Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

Can you tell us a bit more about your blog?
I started my blog Daily Perfect Moment in 2012 in a difficult time in my life (finding a good moment each day was one of my goals, hence the blog’s name) and it’s developing ever since. It is a mix of personal things and the creative work I do, including design, photography, and art. I work with a lot of artists, so when I get the chance I try to give an insight into their work as well, I visit exhibitions and design fairs, and do collaborations. I get a lot of inspiration from the blog, my readers and their feedback and I’m really grateful for that. I feel like the more the blog develops, the more I’m developing too.

Urban Jungle Bloggers - Plant Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

How many plants do you have?
I have a big terrace with lots of flower pots during summer. In my flat I have around 20 planty friends living with me.

And which one is your favorite?
My favourites are my two fig trees. I have lived with them for about two years now, and I love them because they give me that summer vibe.

Urban Jungle Bloggers - Plant Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

If you could have any plant in the world, which one would it be?
A lotus flower, and a little lake around it, and a little sunny garden around the lake … but I’m happy with every new plant that finds its way to my home.

Did you ever kill a plant? How?
Well, to be honest, every zucchini I’m planting on my terrace in summer is doomed to be a snail victim, but I tried it for several years. And since I’m traveling a lot for my work, some of my plants haven’t survived my absence. Can we change the topic?

Urban Jungle Bloggers - Plant Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

What would you like to learn about plants?
Oh, so much. Right now, I have a very small garden with nearly no sun. All that grew there was moss – even growing grass wasn’t possible. I was successful in planting some ground covering plants and found a niche where a colombine (Aquilegia) seems to survive, plus my lavender and tarragon do pretty well. But I would love to learn more about how to grow more plants there.

What’s your favorite style of plant pots?
I love old terracotta pots, the last ones – really large ones – I found in the bulk rubbish of my neighbors and spent a happy afternoon with replanting. Otherwise I find a lot of plants and plant pots on the flea markets around here.

Urban Jungle Bloggers - Plant Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

Your favorite UJB topic so far?
That’s a tough question because I loved all topics so far, but maybe plants and art was my favourite?

Do you have an hilarious planty story you want to share with us?
Many years ago, when I moved into a new flat, I inherited a very old rubber plant from my previous tenant, which just had two leaves left and looked like a mangy street cat. I tried for about two years to make it healthy and happy, but in vain. So, in a dark night, I took the rubber plant to a playground and placed it in between the plants there, hoping that sun and rain might inspire it to grow more leaves. I felt so bad for abandoning it that I couldn’t sleep all night and got up early in the morning to fetch it back. But somebody must have adopted it during the night, it was gone.

Urban Jungle Bloggers - Plant Profile: Katrin from Daily Perfect Moment

Thank you Katrin for opening up to us about your plants. We hope your rubber plant is having a great time at its new plant friend!

You can find Katrin on her blog Daily Perfect Moment or Tumblr.

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