I don't know if you've noticed it or not, but in interior design plants are definitely getting their 15 minutes of fame and then some (and I don't get it). So I decided to reach out to Hilton Carter aka The Plant Doctor and find out what is all the fuss about plants.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed it or not, but in interior design plants are definitely getting their 15 minutes of fame and then some (and I don’t get it).  I have been working into the interior design industry for fifteen years, and plants have always been an important part of finishing off the interior design process. Every room needs a life, which in interior design refers to cut flowers, succulents, or a floor plant (faux or real these days).  But I never thought about designing a room around plants, making a plant the centerpiece of a room. Also I don’t have a green thumb so potted plants have been reserved to photo shoots  in my home. So I decided to reach out to Hilton aka The Plant Doctor and find out what is all of this about.



Hilton Carter received his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a  MFA in film from Art Center College of Design. While drawing and film-making became major parts of his life, Hilton started to develop his skills in the styling and design space.

Over the past six years, Hilton has been filling his home with plants and teaching himself how to blur the line of indoor and  outdoor. In 2017, he started creating video content on how to care for  plants. Hilton shares weekly care tips as the "Plant Doctor" for Apartment Therapy. In the same year, he started traveling around the US to host plant care workshops and still do so today on Airbnb. In 2018, he wrote my first book on plant care and plant  styling titled, Wild at Home and this spring he released his latest book,  Wild Interiors. You can find Hilton sharing daily content on his Instagram @hiltoncarter.