Calathea Care Guide
Calatheas are forest-floor plants, and their leaves work like a live read-out of what's happening at the roots. They fold up at night, curl when they're thirsty, crisp at the...
Anything you’d scoop into a pot: potting mix, top dressings, bark, perlite and LECA.
It’s made for smaller indoor pots. The wide curved bowl slides in close to the plant and pours cleanly, so mix goes into the pot rather than over the leaves or across the bench.
They do different jobs. The Stainless Scoop has a wide bowl that moves more mix per scoop, which makes it the everyday workhorse for repotting and topping up. The Copper Potting Scoop has a narrow bowl for precision work, such as working chunky mix into the gap between a root ball and the pot wall in 100–150mm pots.
Rinse it after use and dry it off.
25.4cm.
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