Heartleaf philodendron is a good first plant for anyone who has just started paying attention to what they own instead of just letting things sit on a windowsill: it’s cheap and the tag says it’s hard to kill. That turns out to be mostly true, though overwatering it out of some misguided idea that more … Read more
A fiddle leaf fig, a rubber plant, and a weeping fig can share the same room and still react to it very differently. The fiddle leaf is notorious for dropping leaves over the smallest change, even just rotating its pot, the rubber plant barely seems to notice anything short of neglect, and the weeping fig … Read more
Monstera has a reputation as a finicky, demanding plant that needs a whole setup to keep alive. In practice, a small deliciosa with maybe two leaves and no fenestrations yet turns out to be one of the easier houseplants. The reputation for being demanding mostly comes from people wanting the dramatic split-leaf look fast, which … Read more
Pothos has a reputation as the plant you can’t kill, and for the most part that’s earned. A two-dollar cutting in a jar of water on someone’s desk looks too neglected to survive, yet it keeps going for years, sprawling across a bookshelf and dropping the occasional cutting into a new jar. But “hard to … Read more