Found him way overwatered, of course, in a big box store. It wasn’t one of my local stores, and I had a premonition, a plantmonition
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When you first start trying to grow plants you figure you can grow anything. Then you suffer some casualties. You become less sure of success.
Sometimes when I’m thinking about my Hoya collection, I don’t think about my Hoya carnosa ‘Krimson Princes’; which is a shame really. Maybe because it’s
The tray was labeled “H carnosa”. I already had one of those, had a couple actually. But I gave it a look over anyway, just
There’s nothing jerky about this guy, even though he’s Aglaonema ‘Slim Jim’. At least that’s what I’ve kinda figured out. He came without tags from
When this orchid first arrived almost eight years ago, it was just a few green leaves. There was a handwritten tag that read “cattalaya”. A
No sooner do I post a video about the variegated one putting out a solid “white” vine, that the green one says “yeah, but look
What is it that flips that switch in our brain? What is it that draws us to one plant and pushes us away from another?
Two of these guys were on my wish list, two of them I’d neither heard of nor seen before. When I did see them, however,
Sometimes when you bring a plant home, or it arrives in the mail, you expect that it will require some time to adapt to its