From A Little Succulent Founder, Beth Sterne

About a week after my mother died, I ran into a friend who looked at me with pain in her eyes and simply said, “It sucks.” Those two honest words from my friend comforted me more than anything else that day.

That night I went home to a kitchen full of cut flower arrangements that were starting to wither and die. Don’t get me wrong, I had been touched to receive all of the flowers with their sweet notes. But, in that moment in my kitchen, I was struck with dread of soon needing to throw them all away.

Next, I glanced over at a beautiful old succulent arrangement on my coffee table that had actually been in my mother’s home for years. That was the moment that the idea was born: A Little Succulent: for when life sucs a little.

My mother, Jane Sterne, loved plants. She ran a small landscape design business in Atlanta, GA for over 20 years. She was the real deal when it came to plants. In fact, I joked in my eulogy to her that my sister and I were the only girls in school whose mom drove a truck.

As a school girl, I would help mom on weekends and summers with her big planting jobs. So, I know she would be thrilled that I now too find myself in the plant business.

Mom would love everything about A Little Succulent…. well, everything, except for the tagline, that is. Mom would find the “sucs” part kind of silly and want me to take a more serious approach. But, I am being serious when I say, “During tough times, everyone just craves friendship, honesty and a little humor. That’s what A Little Succulent is all about.”