Our Top 10 Air Purifying Plants
This week's blog is focusing on air purifying plants. We're often asked for recommendations by our customers and thought it high time to get the list online. When talking air...
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Plant Runner Collaborators: Claudia Messenger
This week we launched the first of our free downloadable artist collaborations. We asked local Melbourne artist Claudia Messenger to create a Plant Care Zine based on a few of her...
Choosing the right pot for your Indoor Plants
You've picked your plant, now it's time to house it. Picking the 'right' pot for your plants can be crazy overwhelming. You've got aesthetics, material, pot size and price all to...
Plant Runner Ask Me Anything (About Plants): Why are my leaves turning brown?
Here's one we get asked all the time. The leaves on your plants are starting to turn a little brown and you're not sure why. Truth is, there are many...
Our Top 10 Plant Shops in North America
Full disclosure - we haven't been to 90% of the following shops. But we've spent enough time getting inspiration on the 'gram from them that we felt like we should...
Mythbusting: Some common indoor plant myths
With so much information at our fingertips, it's easy to jump online and find an answer for...well, anything. And plants are no exception - everyone has a tip, a story,...
5 Easy Plants for Beginners
New to plant parenthood? We can help. Before you do anything else - put the credit card away and have a read. I know it seems like a good idea...
Variegated Plants
With the Variegated Monstera being on everyone's wish list, and variegated plants selling like crazy on ebay, we thought it might be a good opportunity to do a bit of...
Plant Runner Guide to Safe and Rewarding Plants for Kids
With the upcoming launch of Plant Runner Kids, we thought this week it would be good to focus on our list of safe and rewarding plants for children, as well...
Awesome Aroids: The Araceae Family
If you're a verified #aroidaddict or #crazyplantperson, you know what we're talking about when we refer to aroids. But that doesn't mean there is any shame in not knowing and...
How to Reduce Stress with Plants and How Plants Reduce Stress
Given we've just spent four weeks in isolation, and looks like we've got another four ahead of us, its understandable to be feeling a little stir-crazy, bored or even anxious. ...
A Beginner's Guide to Grow Lights
Let's talk grow lights. If you don't understand them, Grow Lights can seem an unnecessary and intimidating piece of equipment to add to your indoor jungle. You might not think you...
And now, a word from our stockists: Their top 3 houseplants for 2020
Some of our retailers picks for their plants to watch in 2020
Our Top 10 Houseplants for 2020
Yes yes its another plant list. But at least this one is ours!
When should I water my Indoor Plants?
First question any new plant parent will ask is always “when do i water it?”. It’s a reasonable question too, problem is it’s so damn tricky to answer! The amount...
Plant Problems 3: Pests & Diseases
Last round of the plant problems series! Don’t mistake that to mean that all the plant problems are covered in these last few blog posts - just that I’m wrapping...
Plant Problems Part 2: Light, Water and Temperature
Here it is, part 2 in our series on Plant Problems. In the last blog post we talked a bit about some of the basics to avoid any plant problems...
Plant Problems: Signs your plant isn’t living their best life
There is no way we’ll be trying to cover all Plant Problems in one blog post. So think of this as the first in a series of posts about common...