plant care & mindfulness
The best high humidity plants are the plants that don’t do well in our home! Let me rephrase that. The best high humidity plants are the plants that need an extra boost of humidity to thrive in our home. 😜 These plants are ideal for …
The Marble Queen Pothos is a fantastic and fascinating plant for so many reasons! Not only it’s a beautiful plant with stunning variegation and colours, it is also an extremely adaptable and hard to kill plant, (that’s where the nick name Devil’s Ivy comes from…). …
Not long ago I wrote an article on The 10 Best Low Maintenance Indoor Plants. It has been read by over 60,000 people, and it’s one of my most successful articles. So why writing another article with half the plants? Because while that article listed …
The Ponytail Palm, also known as the Elephant’s Foot, is one of the easiest, if not THE EASIEST plant to have and care for. It is second on my list of the Top 5 Impossible to Kill Indoor Plants! In-fact, the Beaucarnea Recurvata, (which is its …
Indoor palm trees have such an elegant and tropical look, that they are often used as styling elements for interior and exterior spaces alike. Their lush and beautiful  fronds can fill up a space in no time! There are thousands of palm species in nature, …
What is root pruning? And, have you ever heard of this term before? Root pruning is the trimming of indoor plants’ roots. That’s right! Pruning of the roots, not of the stems! It sounds terrifying, right? It is mostly done to contain the growth of indoor …
Repotting a ZZ Plant can be quite a process if your specimen is as big as mine, or bigger! I am not going to lie and pretend it was an easy peasy, smooth process for me. Not at all! In-fact, it was quite stressful! It …
The Fishbone Cactus is not only one of my favourite plants; it is one of 2021 most wanted plants! I got mine from a friend last fall. (If you ask me, there is nothing better than getting plants from friends!). She asked me; “What is …
The Strelitzia Nicolai is easily one of my favourite plants. I love everything about it! Its look, the way it defines spaces, and the tropical flare it adds to any environment. But most of all, I love its ease of maintenance! You give this plant …
Pruning is not just for outdoor plants. You can, and you should routinely prune your indoor plants too. In-fact, pruning houseplants is really beneficial for their health. There are several reasons for pruning houseplants, and one ideal time to do it. Like repotting, pruning should …