Preparing your Veggie Patch for Winter
As we move out of summer and into the cooler months its a good time give the old veggie patch a revamp. Say goodbye to that summer harvest and start...
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Our Top Plant Care Hacks
Going DIY this week with our favourite plant care hacks. Some of these you may know already, others might be a surprise. There are a million of these floating around...
HOW TO STYLE POT PLANTS
Your home looks great and feels happy when it’s decked out with indoor plants. There are many ways to use them within your overall decorative scheme. If there’s not really...
Can You Put Indoor Plants Outside? A Guide to Giving Them a Summer Holiday
Most indoor plants spend their entire lives in conditions that are quietly underwhelming. The light inside a typical home is a fraction of what these plants evolved to handle, the...
How to look after plants when you go on holiday
Best answer? Grab another plant person whose socials are as plant filled as yours and hand them your keys. In lieu of friend that good, you're going to need to...
Best Indoor Flowering Plants
Ok so you probably didn't start your indoor plant journey via some impressive flower - when people got nuts for 'indoor plants' they're usually frothing over some incredible foliage. BUT...
What are the Must Have House Plants of 2022?
We are all looking forward to this year in a big way. It’s a feeling of eager anticipation that 2022 will bring much better things – in a way which...
Caladiums: A(n Indoor) Plant Care Guide
Caladiums are the showiest aroids you can grow indoors. Big heart-shaped leaves on long thin stems, in patterns that range from spotted to mottled to veined to marbled to striped....
12 Indoor House Plants You Probably Won’t Kill
What colour is your thumb, when it comes to looking after indoor plants? If you’re reading this, we’re guessing maybe it’s not massively green? Or perhaps you’re just enquiring ‘for...
Our 2022 Plant Care Resolution List
With 2021 finally behind us, this years Plant Care resolution guide seems even more relevant. For one thing, you've probably got more plants. All that time at home saw our...
Why is seaweed so good for plants?
While being used in farming and horticulture for years, seaweed has traditionally stayed outside when it comes to plants. Whereas Celtic farmers used to turn kilos of the stuff through...
How Often Should You Water your Plants - A definitive guide
We often get asked this question. “How often should you water indoor plants?” Unfortunately, the answer it not exactly simple. There are so many different types of indoor plants and...
Devils Ivy: A Plant Care Guide
Devil's Ivy is probably the single most adopted indoor plant in the world, and for good reason. Restaurants use it, cafes use it, plant beginners learn on it, stylists trail...
Snake Plant: A Plant Care Guide
The Snake Plant — or Mother-in-Law's Tongue, depending on your family — is one of those plants that's earned its reputation as nearly unkillable. Architectural, upright, and genuinely tough, it's...
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,...
What to do about Fungus gnats
You might not know their name, but you'll know them on sight: tiny dark flies drifting up from the pot every time you move a plant. Fungus gnats are one...