- [Narrator] Calling all plant lovers, ready to cultivate your interior space and make it your own living oasis?

Dive deeper into the world of plants with tips from acclaimed plant influencer, author, and interior stylist Hilton Carter.

Enjoy this sneak peek of "Living Wild: Plant-Spiration with Hilton Carter" to gain insight on nurturing your own plants and discover the wonderful benefits greenery adds both to enhance your space and your overall wellbeing.

Tour Hilton's amazing home featuring 280 plants, learn smart strategies when shopping for plants and gain repotting tips to keep your green babies thriving.

Through artistry and expert advice, Carter demystifies plant design, making it easier for you to achieve the look you want that best fits your space and lifestyle.

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(soft music) - You know that feeling you get when you go outside, tilt your head back and place your face in the sun on that first warm day of spring?

That's the feeling I get every time I enter a space with plants.

You know what I'm describing.

You've all felt it too.

These spaces are what I typically call wild interiors.

Bringing greenery into your home has so many positive benefits beyond the uplifting feeling they give you or the idea that they can clean up the air, remove harmful toxins, and even add oxygen into your home.

Perhaps the greatest benefit is the sense of pride you get when you see those plants thriving.

So let's begin our journey with some "Plant-Spiration."

Here's a look inside my very own "Living Wild" oasis.

My journey began with a passion and love for creating spaces that tell a story about the characters that dwell within them.

Working as a freelance director, I started paying more attention to the art of production design and the importance to making sure every detail in a scene spoke to who the character was that lived in that particular space.

Those details had to tell the audience a lot about who the character was before they were introduced into the scene.

This made me start thinking more about my own personal space and what the items and details there said about me.

So in 2014, I started creating a self portrait of who Hilton Carter was with the materials that would live in my home.

The pieces I would bring in would be forever pieces, things that had a story or would become a part of my story and travel with me throughout the rest of my life.

With that, I started to bring in more plants.

I saw how different I felt when being in an environment that had greenery and I knew I had to bottle that energy up and pour it into my home, into my life.

And, of course, one beget two and two beget hundreds.

I'm sure some of you can relate.

The power that plant life has in a home is transformative.

I'm often asked what my style is, and to be honest, I never think about it when designing a room for myself or others.

If I were to stand back and look at it from a bird's eye view, I guess, I would say my interior design style is modern lush, seeing that my home is a mix of modern, Scandinavian and Mexican tones that are all blending together.

Once I add in the plants, that's how the design style of modern lush is birthed.

For me, the same energy and thoughtfulness that goes into selecting the right colors of paint for the walls or the perfect pieces of the core for a room are put into selecting the right plants, planters and accessories necessary to make the design of a room finalized.

Plant styling takes an eye for understanding which particular colors and shapes will vibe with each other.

In design, you just can't plan accordingly.

You must also plant accordingly.

These are the things necessary when designing a living home.

I hope this inspires you to create living spaces in your home that bring the same joy I feel in mine and know that you don't need a thousand plants in order to reap the benefits of being a plant parent.

Even one to two plants carefully chosen will help you get started on your journey to "Living Wild."

How you go about shopping for plants can make a huge difference in how those plants live and thrive in your home.

If you're a novice plant enthusiast, knowing exactly how to shop can save you time, money, and, over time, a lot of stress.

I'm someone who loves plants and loves shopping for plants, and sometimes I find myself in a plant shop looking at a plant and loving the way it looks, loving its color, loving its shape, but I know I can't just purchase the plant based on those two characteristics.

I gotta buy the plants based on the type of light that is coming into the spot in my home where I want to place them.

So before you go shopping, make sure you have identified a spot in your home where you want a plant to go.

And with that information, you take that to the plant shop, find an associate in that plant shop and tell them what type of light you have.

I would say, I have an East-facing window, and I will love something that is bright and colorful for that spot.

Maybe they would show me this Philodendron Pink Princess.

The first thing I would do, I would check out if it has any pests.

I would do that by looking at the top of the leaves, the bottom of the leaves, around the stems, and, of course, around the top of the soil and the bottom of the pot.

Pests can hide and tuck into many spots on your plant, and you don't want to take home anything that could harm the other plant friends that you have there.

Then you wanna make sure that the plant is healthy.

A healthy plant is bright and full.

You can see how this plant is upright and bright, not wilting or leaning over.

You also wanna check out the new growth that it's developing.

You wanna make sure that it looks healthy as well.

The last thing you need to do before you leave that plant shop is leave with the name of your plant.

Take a photo of the name if it's on the planter, or if there's a sign somewhere near them.

That sign might also give you some instructions on care.

That will be very important, so that when you get your plant home, you can already start the process of giving it a good life in it's new home.

Plants do so much to make our homes a better place to live.

But to be a good plant parent, you need to make sure you give your plants a good home too.

They need the right size pot.

Just like us, sometimes plants outgrow their homes and need a bit of an upgrade.

When your family outgrows your home, it's time to move.

When a plant outgrows it's home, it's time to repot.

Repotting your plant can be a scary and uncertain situation, believe me.

You wanna make sure that you're doing it during the right time of year.

And that time is called grow season.

That's between spring and summer.

Signs that your plant needs to be repotted will be if you start to see roots making their way out of the drainage hole of your pot or if you start to see your foliage starting to get a little brown maybe on the edges or if your plant hasn't grown in a really long time, even after fertilizing it.

Those are signs that your plant might need to be placed in a larger pot, so that their roots can grow and that it can push out new growth.

It is much easier to remove a plant from its pot if it's on the drier side than it is to move it from a pot if it's on the more wet or damp side.

You look good.

You're telling me you're loving life, but your roots are saying something different, bud.

Your roots are saying, "Please put me in a larger pot."

Now, make sure you have a planter that is two inches in diameter larger than your previous pot.

'Cause you don't want your roots to have too much room or too little room.

Just enough room to wiggle around and stretch your little arms out to grow more.

The first thing you wanna do is make sure the bottom third of your pot is filled with fresh potting soil.

Place it in, even it out.

Make sure that you're creating a flat base in there for yourself.

Once you level it out, kind of put your hands in there, move it around a bit.

Then you're going to grab your plant.

You can see my roots really tight, so you want to be very gentle when you're removing it from its pot.

The best way to do so is to squeeze your nursery pot, like so, and that should help loosen that soil and prepare your roots and your plant for being removed from that pot.

You can test it out to see if it's ready to go by grabbing some of your foliage, gently grabbing some of your foliage, and there you are.

Easy, all of your roots, you can see them all at the bottom of this pot, ready to expand into its new home.

I'm gonna place my plants over top of its new home and gently loosen the soil and roots.

You want to be gentle, but don't be afraid to pull a few roots out.

It's a root system, all of your roots will grow back.

Once your roots are a bit loose, that's when it can be time to place your plant down into its new pot.

At this point, you just want to cover up the soil with extra fresh soil.

As you're adding that soil, you wanna make sure that you leave the top 10% of the pot free of soil.

Once I'm done with that, I'm going to gently press down on the new soil, take a look to make sure it's in position.

And there you have it.

Everything you need to know about how to repot your plant.

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