I will start by saying these are all genuinely places that I have bought plants from and I have not been paid to talk about them! So where can you go to buy plants? Well there are a wide range of places and I feel the selection is growing every day, which is great as […]
This is going to be a controversial one! I was just thinking that as my plant family has really expanded over the past year, what would I say are my favourite types of plants? It has really changed over the years. I have my childhood favourites like my alocasia, then I was into trailing or long […]
Here is a space for my mum’s beautiful collection of plants. ‘I love variegated plants and can never walk past one without stopping to admire or buy one. They always find a pride of place in any collection of plants I have. A close examination of the leaves always leave me wondering how each individual […]
Roberta is my Rubber plant, also known as Ficus Elastica ‘Robusta’ (to give her full title!). She is relatively new to my plant family, she was another lockdown plant purchase. We have had some challenges since I got her and I thought she may die within a few months as her bottom leaves were falling […]
I don’t know about you but my plants’ leaves can get quite dusty. I think it is because I am near a main road so perhaps causes an accumulation of build up from exhaust pipes etc. Anyway dusty leaves are not good for your plant. Basically think about it like the skin on your face […]
Plants. How many are too many? I am pretty sure you are reading this page either because: You love plants and have a lot of houseplants yourself and are interested in seeing how other people look after theirs You’re new to plants and want to learn more about how to grow and care for them. […]
Sandy and Sally are my Schefflera arboricola plants, also known as Umbrella Tree or Dwarf Umbrella Tree. I got Sandy (in the picture above) first a couple of years ago and he has tripled in size since then. I have already had to prune him once as he had reached the ceiling and he is nearly there […]
As I have mentioned in my previous posts and my about page, I have a long narrow flat so the rooms can get quite shaded the further away you are from the window. My living room is south facing and the light that it does get is powerful and bright but just not much of it gets […]
It sure is getting cold out here…..Happy 1st of the month! We are definitely getting into autumn now, aren’t we? And I am starting to think about winter preparations for my family of plants. My plant collection has expanded quite a bit since last winter, I think at least by half as much. Unsurprisingly, most of […]
Let me introduce you to Alice, my Alocasia Amazonica, also known as Alocasia Polly, and she is my newest plant! This is another plant that I was telling my mum I really really wanted. She used to have a big one when I was growing up and she gave me a cutting when I left home. It […]