As the mother of a young son with severe autism, Jen Singer needed to find a home-based outlet for those moments she had to herself. And so in 2021, her love affair with anthuriums began – with a heated plant shed just a few paces from her Motueka back door, where she houses her collection of breeding plants.
Her houseplant joy had already been well established, courtesy of a gifted offshoot from a well-travelled hoya, a leafy immigrant that arrived with her partner's Dutch grandmother in the 1950s.
"We had that spanning our kitchen. We moved down and back up the country with this plant, and I absolutely fell in love with it, and it kind of just progressed from there into getting into more houseplants, finding out what I liked."
""It's the diversity within the foliage that I absolutely love more so than the other plants," says Singer, drawing attention to the leaves which come in striking patterns, shapes, colours and sizes – as much as a whopping 1.5m in length on some varieties "
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