You know that feeling when you look at your orchid and it’s doing well – green leaves, strong roots, everything looking perfect – but it hasn’t given you a single bloom? Yeah, that’s no fun. And I know how you’re feeling. My first Phalaenopsis sat on my kitchen windowsill for eighteen months without flowering. I […]
15 Reasons Why Your Pothos is Leggy (And How to Fix It)
A leggy pothos is something that can creep up on you. One day you have a beautiful trailing plant and the next it’s looking a bit like green spaghetti with a few leaves leftover. I’ve had it happen with my pothos a few times and it’s annoying as hell. But a leggy pothos isn’t some […]
Where to Put Your Peace Lily Indoors
Peace Lilies are one of those plants that everyone thinks they understand until they try to keep one alive for more than six months. Then they realize it’s not quite as easy as they thought. I had mine in a dark corner of my bedroom for almost a year before I figured out why it […]
9 Ways to Make Your Pothos Plant Grow Faster
Like most of us I’ve killed some plants over the years. Pothos being no exception. But I’ve also managed to grow some that took over my living room they grew so big. And I did that by learning what pothos need, not what I thought they needed. If you get the conditions right then pothos […]
Best Fertilizer to Make Your Peace Lily Bloom
Getting a peace lily to bloom can be harder than you first think. I’ve had mine sit there for months looking healthy with it’s green leaves but no blooms whatsoever. And then one day I changed the fertilizer I was using and very quickly saw new blooms. In order to give your plant the best […]
How to Grow Pothos Bushy and Long
When I first started growing pothos I imagined long and bushy trailing vines. Instead I got a sad and leggy looking plant with leaves spaced so far apart you could drive a car between them. It was disappointing. I wanted a pothos that was full AND trailing. That I could let grow down my bookshelf. […]
10 Tips to Make Your Orchid Grow Faster
Orchids can make you want to tear your hair out. You give them the perfect light, water them on schedule, maybe even talk to them (no judgement here) and yet they still take ages to give you any new growth. I’ve stood around in my kitchen staring at my Phalaenopsis orchid just thinking to myself […]
10 Tips to Train Monstera to Climb (And Make It Look Good)
The first time I tried to train my Monstera to climb it was a disaster. I basically just shoved a bamboo stake into the pot and hoped for the best. Probably not a huge surprise it didn’t work! It just looked like it was trying to escape rather than climb. But after a few years […]
How Much Water Does a Monstera Need
I probably shouldn’t admit this but I’ve killed a number of Monsteras through watering mistakes. The truth is that a lot of people have. There’s this weird thing that happens when you bring home a monstera. You get all excited and start treating it like a needy pet. Which is a problem because before you […]
9 Ways to Make a Monstera Plant Bushy
When I first got my Monstera manny years ago now I thought it would just naturally grow into a full, gorgeous plant. Instead, what I got was a leggy mess. The problem is that monsteras don’t naturally grow bushy. In the wild they climb and so are programmed to grow UP, not OUT. So if […]