Sansevieria spp: A Plant Care Guide
With the most famous (or common) of the genus being better known as the Snake Plant or (depending on your in-laws), Mother-in-Law's Tongue, plants in the Sansevieria genus also have...
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PLANT PROPAGATION FOR BEGINNERS
PLANT PROPAGATION might sound like a bit of a technical task best left to the experts, but it’s really not difficult at all, essentially. In fact, many of you have probably...
Sleeping with Plants.
Lots of folks swear by a nice herbal tea before retiring to bed, and it’s generally agreed that this is a healthy and effective dose for dozing. But did you...
What is frass and how is it good for my plants?
Held back hard on some great frass-related puns for this week's blog title. 'What's all the Frass about?' was the standout, but for the sake of the google seo gods I...
HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST INDOOR LIGHTING FOR YOUR PLANTS
Many people living in cities these days don’t have very much natural light entering their space. Indoor plants which don’t need much light are best for such abodes of course....
Learn All About Groconut
The Coconut Palm (AKA “Tree of Life”) It’s a versatile plant and the benefits are plastered all over social media – coconut cream for healthier cuisine, coconut oil for hair,...
How to Prepare your Plants for Winter
For those of us hanging out in the Southern Hemisphere, things are starting to feel a little chilly. The days are getting shorter and it's waaaay harder to get out...
What to do about Fungus gnats
You may not have heard of them but there is every chance you've seen them. Think tiny little flies floating around your plants. They're as annoying as all hell, and can...
(Trying to be) 1% Better
This week's post is less of a blog and more of a PSA as we're so excited to be able to call ourselves 1% for the Planet members and we...
Plant Care: Rhipsalis
Seems ambitious to try and cover a whole genus of cacti (some 35 different species) in one blog post. I'm game. Colloquially referred to as 'Jungle Cactus', this group of plants wouldn't...
Back to work: Ten Plants for the Office
By now, most of us are back in the office/at work a few days a week. You might not be there everyday, but it doesn't mean your plant game should slip....
Plant Shopping: How to choose a healthy plant
Picking a plant can be a little intimidating. You don't want to fork out cash on something that's just going to drop dead as soon as you get home. In...
How to Move with Plants (and Dealing with Plant-Fam Separation)
Having just completed an epic, simultaneous two house/two cities move, I feel like this post might have been more useful about two weeks ago. So in order to save someone...
Plants that scream “I LOVE YOU” - A Plant Lover’s Guide to Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is here again, and if you’re anything like us, you’ve either forgotten it or left it too late. No stress, we’ve got you covered with our Plant Lover’s...
Philodendron gloriosum: A Plant Care Guide
If you've been floating around any sort of plant-focused social media, you've probably come across the Philodendron gloriosum (occasionally referred to as the Anthurium Gloriosum or Velvet Philodendron). Another (awwesome) aroid,...
Giving Back with The Karma Collective
This week we took a breather from the plant world sat down down with (/emailed) Plant Runner friend, stockist and supplier (triple threat!), Audrey from The Karma Collective. The Karma Collective makes...
ZZ Plant: A Plant Care Guide
Under-rated, under-mention and totally underappreciated - The ZZ Plant is the real deal. Zamioculcas zamiifolia, (ZZ Plant is easier right?) is a member of that oh-so-wonderful family of plants, Araceae. Originally found...
Plant Care Resolutions
It's January 1, 2021 and I'm banking on not being the only one to wake up with a sore head and a heap of "goals" for the New Year. But before...
Syngonium podophyllum: A Plant Care Guide
You may not have heard of it, but you've most definitely seen it. The Arrowhead Plant (Syngonium podophyllum) is a fast growing, crazy rewarding, highly underrated, climbing plant that should indeed...
Bees & Seeds - An Intro to Settler Hives
After the huge response we had to last week's 'Beehive Live', we've invited the Backyard Beekeeping dream team, Haley and Rodger Mason from Settler Hives to tell us a bit...