Monstera plants are famously huge. So it can be incredibly disappointing when you bring home your new plant, and it just fails to grow the impressive leaves you’d imagined. If your Monstera is not flourishing as you’d…
Watering is a big worry for some Monstera owners, and with good reason. It’s widely known that the quickest way to lose your plant is to get it wrong. So today I’m going to share my extensive…
Monstera plants love light, but if you give them too much they will burn. Finding the right balance is really important, and how you do that will depend on your situation. So I’m going to help you…
I don’t want you to think I’m showing off, but I’ve got to tell you, I’ve got a lot of Monstera plants. Sadly not one of every type yet, but like any true plant nerd, a full…
It occasionally surprises visitors to my house just how many Monstera plants I have. I don’t just have a traditional swiss cheese plant in one of the corners, I have several different varieties in various places around…
If you are anything like me and have watched in frustration as yet another Calathea gives up the struggle for life and withers before your eyes, don’t despair. Your dreams of Calathea competence can come true! It…
Pothos is often described as being ‘beginner-friendly’, ‘immune to neglect’, and even ‘impossible to kill’. So wilting pothos, when it happens, can feel like a rather damning result of our care. Was life on our windowsill really…
Propagating satin pothos is the easiest thing in the world. Also known as silver vine, satin pothos is not actually a type of pothos at all, but a closely related cousin. It’s easy and relatively quick to…
Understanding how to care for a maidenhair fern in the winter is a new problem for me. I’ve owned no less than three of them over the years, but the first two both met crispy deaths in…
Getting humidity right for houseplants is always going to be something of a compromise. Many of our most popular houseplants were originally tropical rainforest or jungle plants and their preference is for very high levels of humidity…
