Care guides for popular houseplants — monstera, pothos, snake plant, philodendron, and more. Light, water, and growing tips tailored to each species.
A Christmas cactus is not really a cactus — not the way a barrel cactus or prickly pear is. It is an epiphyte from the cloud forests of southeastern Brazil, where it grows in the crooks of tree branches, anchored by thin roots in decomposing leaf litter. That origin explains almost every care difference between this plant and every other cactus on your shelf…
Walk into any garden center and the succulent table is a blur of rosettes, columns, trailing strands, and things that look like pebbles. They all get labeled “succulent” and shelved together, but the care differences between an Echeveria and a Lithops are wider than the gap between a fern and a fiddle leaf fig…
The lipstick plant gets its name from tubular red flowers that push out of dark maroon calyces like a tube of lipstick twisting open. It is one of the few trailing houseplants that blooms reliably indoors, and this guide covers the fifteen things that keep it flowering, full, and healthy…
A swollen trunk that stores its own water, a fountain of curly leaves that never needs misting, and a tolerance for neglect that puts most houseplants to shame. Ponytail palm is the living sculpture that forgives everything except overwatering…
A vine of tiny silver-marbled hearts that cascades from any high shelf and practically begs to be propagated. Ten steps to keep every strand healthy…
Most houseplants want you to hover. Yucca wants you to walk away. This desert-hardened cane plant punishes overwatering and rewards bright, direct light…
The leaves fold shut at dusk and open at dawn. It goes dormant and looks dead twice a year. And it grows from tiny bulbs, not roots. Here is everything oxalis needs to stay dramatic and alive…
One genus, dozens of species, and a range that stretches from the classic split-leaf deliciosa to monsteras that don't even look like monsteras. Here are the types worth growing…
One species, dozens of cultivars, and care tweaks that shift from a golden pothos in a dark hallway to a cebu blue on a moss pole. Here are the types worth growing…
One genus, hundreds of species, and care rules that shift dramatically between a trailing heartleaf and a climbing melanochrysum. Here are the types worth growing…