Bought it because of the photos: trailing vines of little hearts blushing pink and cream. Mine has been going eleven months and it is green with silver marbling and purple undersides. Healthy, trailing well, just not…
My hoya has dropped four yellow leaves in a fortnight. They go soft rather than crispy, mostly the lower older ones, and the soil still feels damp three days after I water. It sits on a windowsill about four inches from…
Knocked my snake plant over and snapped a long leaf clean off at the base. It is mid October, the flat is cool and my windows are north facing. Every guide says spring or summer, which is unhelpful advice when the leaf…
Run one for a season and it goes green or develops a film. That is biofilm and algae, and it is preventable with a routine rather than a product. What causes it Standing water, light and minerals. A tank on a sunny…
There is a persistent cloud of tiny flies around my plants. Nine plants, mostly in a bright corner of one room. What I have tried: yellow sticky cards, which fill up impressively and change nothing; a spray from the…
Adopted a two year old cat three weeks ago and she has worked through a golden pothos, one monstera leaf and most of the spider plant, in that order. I have about fifteen plants including a peace lily, a ZZ, two…
I moved it from a six inch to an eight inch pot nine days ago because it was drying out daily. Every afternoon it goes completely flat, and every morning after a drink it is back up. The soil is damp when I check it, so…
It sat directly beside a south facing window for two years and looked great. We rearranged the living room and it is now on the other side of the sofa, same room, maybe four feet back and slightly off to the side.…
Ordered from a small online nursery, it evidently sat somewhere over a bank holiday and arrived after nine days in transit. Soil bone dry, four of six leaves yellow and floppy, one snapped stem. The seller says give it…
Every seven to ten days I find the same white fluff in the leaf axils and where the petioles meet the stem. I wipe every one I can find with a cotton bud dipped in 70 percent isopropyl and they visibly dry up. A week…
Bought a bushy ficus elastica six years ago. Same east window, same 20cm pot, watered when the top few centimetres dry out, fed through summer. It is alive and it puts out maybe four leaves a year, and it has slowly…
I watered thoroughly until it ran out of the bottom and tipped out the saucer. Twelve days later a chopstick pushed into the middle comes out visibly wet and cool. It is in a plastic nursery pot in standard bagged…
Roots are coming out of the drainage holes and circling on top of the soil, and the pot dries out in about two days when it used to take a week. It is in a north window with no grow light, so light is at its worst for…