Enid Haupt: Seventeen Magazine Editor, Lover of Plants, and Patron of American Horticulture

June 18, 1971

On this day, the Austin American-Statesman shed light on Enid Haupt's life after retirement from Seventeen magazine.

The article shared fantastical scenes from inside Enid's Park Avenue Apartment:

Instead of curtains, Enid had potted Camillia plants on either side of the windows. In order to survive indoors in New York, they needed to be misted three times a day.

And there was a rug in her drawing room that Enid claimed she had waited 23 years to acquire.

It was from the Palace of Versailles, and it featured antique hollyhocks and tulips on a rose background.

 

Enid said,

Plants are my life. I feel responsible for them.

And Enid cautioned against babying plants, she said

I have a protective attitude without pampering.

If you pamper a plant, it's like a person.

It grows too soft.