Some time at the start of the year, I decided to take my Monstera adansonii out of its pot + pull it apart. I had been growing it around a U-shaped bamboo stake for nearly a year but it was getting to that point where the longest stems were seriously long + looking a little…
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Today’s post is all about snake plant propagation. If you have a couple of these plants at home + have been thinking about giving this process a try, there are a few methods to choose from when it comes to propagating these easy-going plants. Throughout the post, I’ll be explaining the most popular processes alongside…
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Today’s post is a highly requested one + after chatting to some of you recently, I wanted to put together a post that compiles your frequently asked propagation questions in more detail, in a place that you can easily refer back to. You will probably know by now that propagation is an aspect of plant…
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Happy New Year! For my first post of 2021, I wanted to talk about my favourite houseplants to propagate.
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As much as I love my larger plants here at HOUSEPLANTHOUSE, houseplant propagation is a real hobby of mine. I don’t know if it’s the lure of making new plants for free, or that the process feels like I’m getting to understand how my houseplants ‘work‘… whatever it is, I’m forever fascinated with propagating something!…
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Something I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is the question of scale — quantities, qualities, how to streamline my belongings, my kitchen cupboards, my plants. In this post I want to share my thoughts about taking a more mindful approach to keeping houseplants. It’s true that a lot of these reflections have been…
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It’s that time of year again… last week I got my scissors out and cut back my tradescantia fluminensis tricolour entirely. My plant fared surprisingly well during the move but as Spring growth kicked in, my plant was looking a little… straggly. I think this is the third cycle of cutting I have done with…
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Today’s post is a reader request that concerns pilea babies – specifically, what to do with them when they start popping up from your ‘main’ mother plant. If you are just getting into houseplants or it’s your first time having a pilea peperomioides then it can be quite a surprise to see new growth appearing…
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