Grow My Wellbeing

Last night, I had the pleasure of sharing my journey, more about my business and how to create a terrarium with a group of 40 lovely ladies.

In the midst of running a business and looking after my family, I often forget about my journey but if you’re new here or don’t know how my business started, let me share…

🌱 I grew up in South Africa, surrounded by plants and nature.

🌱 I finished high school and travelled and lived in America for 13 months.

🌱 As my American stay came to an end, I came to the UK to visit my dear friend, thinking I’d be here for 6 months.

🌱 23 years later….I’m still in the UK.

🌱 After realising that the UK would be my new home, I decided to go to Uni and obtained a degree in HR and coaching.

🌱 Went for an interview at and worked for this wonderful company for 10 years.

🌱 Covid hit and it became an uncertain time for us all.

🌱 I started watering, propagating, wiping leaves and found my plants my mindful way to switch off after days of homeschooling.

🌱 I wanted others to experience the mindfulness that planting can bring so I created Wellbeing Plant Bundles (check them out on my website).

🌱 From there, I started running workshops and installed office plants to inject nature and greenery for wellbeing!

I love my job and feel grateful for everyone’s support.

If you’d like a talk, terrarium demonstration or even a workshop for your group, please get in touch.

Chantal 💚

Elmswell Primary School was the April ‘Grow For Schools’ winner and they will receive this wellbeing bundle for their wellbeing or Pastoral room.

It’s now time to nominate your Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury Schools for the May draw!

The following schools have already won:

🌿 Sybil Andrews Academy
🌿 Great Whelnetham Primary
🌿 Rougham Primary
🌿 St Joseph’s (Sudbury)
🌿 Abbots Green Academy
🌿 Guildhall Feoffment Primary
🌿 Long Melford Primary
🌿 County High School
🌿 Westgate Primary
🌿 Risby Primary
🌿 St Edmund’s Catholic School
🌿 Riverwalk School
🌿 Hardwick Primary
🌿 Tudor Primary (Sudbury)
🌿 Sextons Manor Primary
🌿 King Edward School
🌿 Rattlesden Primary School
🌿 All Saints Primary School
🌿 Elmswell Primary School

Head to the website now to nominate: https://growmywellbeing.co.uk/schools/

Or comment below.

The winning school for May will be picked at random at the end of next week.

Please share / tag to reach as many schools as possible who haven’t yet won.

Chantal 💚

When I grew up in South Africa, I had succulents, cacti, Euphorbia, Bird of Paradise, Sansevieria and many more plants in my garden and surrounding spaces.

I never had to worry about out the right light, fertiliser or pest checking as nature did that for me.

A little confession…when I first started my houseplant collection in the UK, I never really bought into grow lights, fertilisers or pest preventions as I was so used to nature caring for itself.

However, I soon realised that indoor plants need certain elements to thrive, especially indoors. I’ve learnt this the hard way after loosing a few plants over the years.

I’m sharing my favourite houseplant care items that really work for me:

🌱 which I’ve been using for years. I fertilise whenever my plants are actively growing, giving them much needed nutrients they would normally get in nature outdoors.

🌱 predatory mites for thrips. These mites crawl out of the sachet and feed off the thrips on your plants, keeping your plants pest free and healthy (I have a 5% discount code, comment ‘Pest’ and I’ll send it over).

🌱 yellow sticky tapes to catch the adult fungus gnats flying around plants.

🌱 horticultural soap to keep plants clean and pest free (I have a 5% discount code, comment ‘Pest’ and I’ll send it over).

🌱 Rubbing alcohol for mealybugs.

🌱 nematodes for fungus gnat larvae that live in soil (I use this with yellow sticky tapes so both adults and larvae are stopped).

🌱 .store grow lights which mimic the natural sun and allow plants to grow in even dark corners (I have a 10% discount code, comment ‘Light’ below and I’ll send the link over).

My plants are thriving with a little help from these very clever, helpful houseplant items.

Make sure to save this for when you need pest treatment, lights or a fertiliser for your plants!

Chantal 💚

🌱 Summer Houseplant Care Series - Part 2 🌱

This new YouTube video is all about pruning and purging - cleaning up and letting go of the plants that no longer work in my space.

Have a look out for Part 3 coming soon - all about the soil mixtures that I use for tropicals, succulents & cacti.

If there’s anything you’d find helpful as part of this series, let me know in the comments below.

Head to my YouTube channel to have a watch: https://youtu.be/gX2km7zkeu8?si=-dyOaXTQdrNIE6kI

Chantal 💚