Over the next few weeks, the conditions around your plants start to change. Longer days and warmer rooms can mean faster growth, thirstier pots and more new leaves. But not...
The Birkin is a philodendron that happened by accident. The usual account is that it turned up as a mutation on 'Rojo Congo', a dark, red-flushed hybrid, and the cream...
A golden cane is a clump, not a single plant. That tidy pot of arching fronds is usually several seedlings grown together, and every cane in it is one stem...
A Monstera sprawling across the floor isn't misbehaving. It's a climber with nothing to climb. Give it something to climb and it stops sprawling. Give it good light as well,...
By the time you find root rot, the watering mistake is already behind you. What matters now is what's left, and whether the pot it goes back into will do...
--> Plant picks You can't drill, you might move in a year, and the bond is riding on the carpet. Here's what to grow — and the one thing "hard...
A pot isn't sterile. But there's no soil outside it moving back in — what lives there is mostly what went in with it
Heartleaf Philodendron is not a plant that survives neglect. It is a plant that recovers quickly when you correct course — and that is a different thing, even though the...
Fertiliser doesn't fix a plant. It fuels one that's already growing. Most of the time people reach for it, that's not the plant they've got.
A fern that doesn't behave like a fern. No feathery fronds, no misting ritual, no sulking the moment the air dries out.
A Fiddle Leaf Fig is a tree pretending to be a houseplant. In the wet forests of West Africa it can start life on another tree and end up as...
Spring is the window, not the reason. A horticulturalist's guide to reading the root zone before you reach for a bigger pot.
The mini monstera is one of the most mislabelled plants on the bench. You'll see it sold as Monstera Ginny, Philodendron Ginny, Philodendron Minima and mini monstera. The first three...
By the time the calendar catches up, most of your plants are already weeks into their restart — quietly, while the heater's still running and you're still wearing the big...
There's a quiet assumption in plant care that the answer to almost everything is a bigger pot and a fresh bag of mix. Plant looking tired? Repot it. Growth stalled?...
A big plant changes a room in a way a small one can't. Done well, it makes a room feel finished. Done badly, it slowly browns in the corner while everyone...
Chinese Evergreen is the plant that genuinely earns the low-light label — with a qualification. The dark-leaved, less variegated varieties are among the most light-tolerant indoor plants you can keep....
The short answer is yes, sometimes — and no, not in the way you're probably worried about.