Courtney Marshall<\/a>, licensee-owner of Plant Nite Calgary, said it started last November.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen Plant Nite was coming to Calgary, I thought it was a great opportunity. I wanted to bring something new to Calgarians,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Melanie Bergman, a University of Calgary student, heard about this activity through a friend and attended one on Jan. 16, at Ranchman\u2019s Cookhouse and Dancehall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would definitely go again, and I recommend it to my friends,\u201d Bergman said.<\/p>\n
She said as soon as she and her friends arrived, they were escorted to a table with green aprons that said Plant Nite so their clothes would be safe from all the soil and decorations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe host clearly explained how to plant our chosen succulents and brought around pebbles, rocks, moss, and plastic dinosaurs and frogs to decorate our terrariums with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Bergman said her ticket cost $40 and it was \u201cworth the money.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, I was expecting to get wine included because it was advertised as a plant and wine night,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Marshall, the host, hopes people enjoy their time whether they come with friends or family, or just by themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that they find that they do have maybe even a little bit of a green thumb and enjoy planting their terrarium,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Dan Hermann and Sean McGrail created Plant Nite soon after they came up with Paint Nite, the same concept but painting pictures instead of planting, says the Plant Nite website.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir mission was to encourage creativity, empower communities, and inspire connections (away from the screen), all while offering a new way to go out and have fun,\u201d the website says.<\/p>\n
Marshall\u2019s sister-in-law owns the Paint Nite franchise in Saskatoon and she thought it was a \u201cgreat opportunity\u201d to own the sister company in Calgary.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter an event, I hope that maybe I sparked a desire to learn more, or plant more, and walk away with a little knowledge of plants,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\nSTUDENT SUCCULENT: <\/strong>University of Calgary student Melanie Bergman holds her homemade terrarium from Plant Nite in her dorm room, Jan. 25, 2018. Bergman attended Plant Nite on Jan. 16 at Ranchman’s Cookhouse and Dancehall. (Photo by Shawna Martens\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plant Nite, creative entertainment that invites people to get out of the house to socialize and drink while planting succulents, is becoming popular in Calgary. [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":41948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S1 Green Thumb","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"post_format-post-format-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44040,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41925\/revisions\/44040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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