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If you’re new to growing or caring for houseplants this full and in depth guide takes you through light, watering, soil, feeding and the mistakes you’re likely to make.
A peace lily that isn’t producing new leaves can be missed at first. The plant can stay looking fine because the existing leaves look nice and green. But then some weeks go by, then months, and and at some point you realize that the plant looks exactly the same as it did when you bought …
We all want to see our plant collection growing. So being able to propagate your monstera and turn one into many plants id I’ve been doing it for years now and so have a good idea of what works and what will ruin your chances. So I’m going to take you through the propagation methods …
Pothos are the plants that most people think they don’t need to prune. Because they trail, grow and keep producing leaves most of us take a more casual approach to caring for them, and by that I mean we mostly let them do their own thing. Which works for a while.. until it doesn’t. And …
Monsteras can be generous – sometimes too generous. If you give a monstera deliciosa what it wants, that is good light, consistent watering and regular feeding, it will end up filling whatever space it’s in.. and then try to find more. The leaves get bigger, the stems get longer and the aerial roots start to …
Pruning an orchid makes a lot of people nervous. Orchids feel delicate and like you could make a costly mistake. Plus the advice available online is usually not that helpful, even contradicting itself at times – cut the spike back, do not cut the spike back, cut to a node, cut to the base, leave …
A few months ago I noticed a friends amazing monstera was looking awful. It had been the envy of many of our group for years and now it had yellow, drooping leaves and a nasty smell in the air around it. When I lifted the pot it also felt suspiciously light for something that should …
When I first tried to get my pothos to climb I just shoved a moss pole in the soil with it and hoped for the best. You’ll be shocked to learn it didn’t work. The vines just sort of hung there, looking at me like I was an idiot. And you know what? They were …
For longer than I care to admit when I got my first monstera I didn’t fertilize it. Not once. I figured it was growing fine and adding fertilizer was just one more thing to remember and probably something I’d mess up. Then I met someone who had a monstera that was over three times the …
When I bought my first monstera it had three leaves and fit perfectly on my desk. That was quite a few ago years ago. Now it’s surprisingly tall, has leaves the size of dinner plates and lives in the corner of my living room where its taken up a lot of space I’m not complaining! …
When plants are struggling or unhappy they are very good at communicating it. Yellow leaves, brown tips, wilting stems, spots on the foliage – every symptom is the plant telling you something. The problem is that a lot of those symptoms look similar on the surface. And the wrong diagnosis will result in the wrong …