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...
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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? Insect Frass and Chitin, Explained
Let's get the obvious out of the way. Frass is insect poo. Specifically, it's what's left after insect larvae have worked through organic matter — droppings, shed skins, and a...
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...
(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 quietly intimidating. You don't want to hand over cash for something that drops dead the week you get it home — and plenty of our...
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 spent any time around indoor plant content, you've probably come across the Philodendron gloriosum — sometimes called the Velvet Philodendron for its matte, velvety leaves with pale silver-white veins....
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
Underrated, under-mentioned, totally underappreciated — the ZZ Plant is the real deal. Zamioculcas zamiifolia (ZZ Plant works fine) is a member of the Araceae family, the same as Monstera, Philodendron...
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 definitely seen it. The Arrowhead Plant changes shape as it ages, and that's the thing to understand before anything else —...
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...