Plant profile: how to care for…Dieffenbachia

If you’ve been hanging around this website for a while, you’ll know about my *dismal* track record with Dieffenbachia. I had one, it yellowed, dropped all its leaves, got mealybugs, and died. To this day, I have no idea what happened. The only thing I can think is that it had root rot when I …

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Plant Profile: how to care for…air plants

I don’t have any air plants, but I do have google, so what does it really matter? I do want some, it’s just I’m not quite sure where I’d put them. every flat surface of my house is filled with plants, and I’m worried I’d forget about them. Ok, you don’t care about that. Let’s …

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What are the benefits of having house plants?

This is a popular search term, which is why I’m writing a post about it. Personally, it’s a bit weird for me. Like someone asking what the benefit of sharing my home with an enormous angry rabbit is. I don’t know, I just like ’em. Why do I look after them? Er, because they need …

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How can you preserve variegation in house plants?

Do you remember back in the day when you were blissfully unaware of variegated plants? And then, all of a sudden, you can’t stop thinking about them. You promise yourself you don’t care about getting a variegated monstera. They’re like £200. What if you kill it? it’s absolutely not worth the stress. Maybe I’ll start …

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Why do my herbs keep dying?

Growing herbs indoors is one of those things that everyone’s either already doing or want to do. We have aspirations to be some kind of nature goddess that can pluck a few sprigs of thyme from the windowsill to add to the top of the vegan cottage pie we just made from scratch. Supermarkets have …

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