Those yellowed or drooping or dried leaves are your plant’s pained way of screaming, “Please pay attention to me! Deliveries to destinations outside Australia are made by DHL courier, and cannot be made to post office boxes. If your home doesn't allow for a ton of natural lighting consider choosing a plant that thrives in low or indirect lighting.

If the soil under the surface is dry, your plant feels light and the soil is coming away from the edges of your post then this is a good indicator that your plant needs more watering and is at risk of drying out. With a few simple tips and tricks, you can ensure that your houseplants stay healthy and happy for years to come. Then it gets into a more detailed discussion of how to care for and troubleshoot specific plant species.The second type of person is someone who is normally good with plants but something random has gone wrong. If you Google “set it and forget houseplant,” which I did, you’ll find a slew of articles boasting plants “ that are almost impossible to kill. With over 50 different types of popular houseplants, this book summarises what type of care your plants do (or don't) need.

Survival tips for the horticulturally challenged How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what's in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow. Keeping houseplants alive and healthy requires a bit of knowledge and effort, but the rewards are well worth it.I really like the illustrations of specific diseases and issues on every page of the plant reference section. This is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what's in the pot, to keeping it in check when it grows too well! The soil is sodden and if you tilt the pot over a glass you can pour yourself a smelly brown colored drink. When I was first getting used to caring for our fiddle leaf fig, I had some brown spots that the plant was constantly using its energy to try and repair. How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is aimed towards newbies, but it also included tricks that were new to me, such as how to save an overwatered plant by wrapping its soil in newspaper.

Even if you never use fertiliser as long as you repot once every couple of years your plant will survive, so the potential to cause damage by overfeeding is massively more probable. Once you’ve watered your plant you can keep it in a one of our trendy pot covers to bring style and colour to your indoor space.

The choice I get now compared to when I became interested in cacti and succulents studying A level biology has grown immensely. Every plant requires a different care regimen — running the gamut from every-other-day maintenance to once-monthly check-ins — and the answers to those Plant Person Questions can point you to which plants are right for your lifestyle. So why on earth why did you think leaving your houseplant outside or in that unheated conservatory when Winter crept up was a good idea?