You have a bag of lumpy brown elephant ear bulbs on your kitchen counter, a stack of empty pots by the window, and snow still melting on the sill. Learning how to plant elephant ear bulbs indoors lets you get a head start on those huge leaves weeks before the weather warms up. The short … Read more >>
You are standing in a garden center aisle with two tall, feathery palms side by side, each about the same height, and both look like they would soften that empty corner by your sofa. Deciding between a kentia palm vs majesty palm comes down to one question: how much light and attention can your home … Read more >>
Your morning coffee filter sits on the counter, still damp, a few feet from a pothos trailing off the bookshelf and a peace lily near the east window. You may have heard there are houseplants that like coffee grounds, and you’re wondering whether that filter belongs in a pot instead of the trash. The short … Read more >>
You notice a dark patch on a leaf near the window, then another, and soon the plant you water every week looks scorched or soggy at the edges. House plant leaves turning black is alarming, but it usually points to one clear cause you can confirm in a few minutes. The short version: Black leaves … Read more >>
Your fiddle leaf fig stands in the corner of the living room, leaning slightly toward a window that seems too far away, with a few new leaves that look smaller than the old ones. If that window faces north or winter has cut your daylight short, a grow light for a fiddle leaf fig can … Read more >>
Your snake plant sits in the corner looking exactly the way it did last spring, with the same stiff leaves and not a single new shoot pushing up from the soil. If you want to make a snake plant grow faster, the good news is that a few targeted changes to its indoor setup can … Read more >>
You are standing in front of two striped philodendrons on a plant shop shelf, one labeled Birkin and one labeled White Measure, and the price tags are not even close. The philodendron white measure vs birkin question confuses plenty of indoor growers, because the two plants can look nearly identical in one pot and wildly … Read more >>
Your cactus sits on the windowsill, and you notice a small round bump at its base that wasn’t there last spring. If you have wondered how do cactus reproduce, that little bump is one answer, and a flower or a fallen piece of stem can be another. The short version: Cacti reproduce in two ways. … Read more >>
Your snake plant stands upright by the window while the radiator ticks on, the air feels dry on your skin, and you start to wonder if the plant feels it too. Snake plant humidity is one of the most common worries for new growers, especially once the heat comes on in fall. The short version: … Read more >>
Your fiddle leaf fig stands by the window as one tall, bare stem with a tuft of leaves at the top, and it looks more like a pole than a tree. If you want side branches without cutting off the height you have waited for, learning how to notch a fiddle leaf fig is the … Read more >>