Planty Care tips 🥴🌿
Welcome to the first instalment of the Planty Care tips 🥴🌿 series. I hope you enjoy my sharing with you, common, and maybe not so common, care tips, 🥴🌿 and planty suggestions as much as I enjoy sharing them with you. 😎🌴🌿
I’ve started with what are, to me, some of the more important considerations we can take into account before acquiring Planty friends. 🤗🌿
Planty Care tips 🥴🌿
First thing I think of when getting/buying plants is how much attention I’ll give it. If it grabs my attention in picture or flesh then I’m more likely to pay it more attention once it’s home. 🌿🏠 I tend to go for what catches my eye over what’s popular. I also like and grow some popular plants too. 🤫🌿
I imagine where the plant is likely to live in my environment. 🤔🌿 I usually have a couple of places in mind. 👍🏻 The ones I like the look of I research care needs etc… I use various sources for this. My own experience of many years growing plants included. 🌿💞 Usually left behind when I’ve moved, hay ho, I’ve always gotten more. 🌿🏠💞
If I enjoy the look and feel I get from the plant then I’ll usually collect it, at least, these days I will. 🤭🌿💞
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I’m blessed with great light in my little house. East windows, sun in south windows till after 4pm. East and South windows in the same room. A good 8 hours of great light in both my main rooms. 🏠🌿💞
Saying that, I still consider the lightning in my environment. 🤔🌞🏠🌿 I tend towards medium to bright light, some direct. 🌞😎🌿 In my experience most plants do well indoors in medium to bright light conditions 👍🏻 That’s not to say that with medium to low light, that you can’t have your space thriving with some green. I think I’d manage wherever light I was in.🤭🌿😎
So I consider where I will place them, the light they will bask in. 🤔🏠🌿
Plants (some) in my experience only tolerate low light. They survive. 😐🌿 To thrive? They all seem to prefer medium to bright light, well, all the ones I choose.🌴🌞😎🌿💞
Planty Care tips 🥴🌿
I’m not a lover of high maintenance* plant care. 🤭🌿🤫 This also comes to mind when choosing my 🏠🌿 guests. 💞 I go from a scale of low maintenance – medium maintenance.👌🏻🧐😂🌴🌿 No high dramas here please. 🙏🏻
*High maintenance – Anything you have to buy electric humidifiers for and/or pay hundreds of pounds for and/or a plant you have to faff around with. 😂🌴🌿
“I raise the humidity enough for some Calathea (medium maintenance) using trays and bowls of water. Look out for the 👉🏻blog👈🏻 on that. 😎⛲🌴🌿⛲😎”
Out in nature plants grow everywhere. 🌾 With little fuss and interference from us (humans) so I like to adopt the same sentiment with my indoor wilderness. 🏠🌿💞
Once their needs/conditions are met in regards to lightning and humidity I pretty much like to leave them to it and watch them grow. 😎🌴🌿
Of course, I buzz about them almost every day. Checking for dead leaves 🍂 and keeping them bug free. 🦟🐛🌴🌿🦠🐞 Polishing the odd leaf. 🌿 Yet. To me, this is not plant maintenance, this is plant growing Joy! 🥳🏠🌿🥳
Planty Care tips 🥴🌿
There is a lot of joy one can get from caring for 🏠🌿 plants and when considering which new plant friend to get I am always honest with myself, as a human being and as a plant lover. “Will I give this particular foliage the required attention?” Or “Will I be able to manage this gorgeous baby Monstera when it’s grown into a tropical beast monster? 😂🏠🌿
A few things I consider before adopting plant friends. 🥳🏠🌿 Time, space and light. How much have I got?
Thank you for joining me. 😎🏠🌿💞
Planty Care tips 🥴🌿
“Next time Planty Care tips 🥴🌿 on Soil and Watering… 🚿🌴🚿🌿🚿”
David Plantlover 