#plant care

[soullessseraphim]

Wakes up

Hey I swear there were leaves on my geranium yesterday???

THE CULPRIT - CATERPILLAR

CARPITLLAR???!!

My geranium is now BALD 🥀🥀🥀 (but I see leaves are growing back so its all good)

@onenicebugperday so sorry for the ping but look at how cute and beautiful it is!!!!! Well fed... the size of half my index finger BY THE WAY do u have any advice on how to maintain it??? Tyy <3

[hoverflies]

My entire strategy for houseplant care is based on going around having a look at them. Ideally every day, but I've done 2-3 days too when busy w other stuff or health isn't good. Or one day I'll do the plants in one area, then the next the ones I keep in a different room.

It always starts with admiring the plants, which always makes me feel better and less stressed. They are a good thing to focus on, while putting all worries and troubles aside for a bit. The world might be going to shit, but here I can have a positive impact, and usually see my efforts rewarded.

Then I check for any new growth, that things are going well there. I look over the rest of the plant. This is often when I notice any signs of pests - The earlier you catch those, the better. It's helped me avoid a pest spreading to all my other plants several times.

Often, this is also when I notice signs that a plant needs watering too. Sometimes I check the soil with my finger, but mostly I rely on picking up the pot and seeing how heavy or light it feels. A mostly dry pot with the coco coir that's most of my soil mix feels extremely lightweight.

I try to water a few plants together if possible, because things are a lot easier if I can have little groups with the same 'schedule'. If I notice one of them needs water, I check the others I tend to group with them and see if they're mostly dry too.

This is a LOT easier for me than remembering an actual 'water once a week / week and a half' schedule, bc my adhd makes keeping track of that super hard. Plants do better this way too, trying to keep a strict schedule and watering a plant the same day every week is a hugely common way to kill plants by overwatering (of course the most common soils people use often contribute to that as well, but that's another rant for a different day)

[the-hives-garden]

Golden hour with the roman chamomile 🫶🫶🧡

[watermelllonarchive]

Medo shared this update on July 2. (The caption reads "Day 8🍉"). Since his first plant post, he has recieved comments suggesting plant care tips and asking about where he gets the plants. Medo gets his sprouts from his cousin, who it appears has created a green house tent for growing plants in the displacement camp.

Medo is on Instagram and Threads @ medo_halimy. You can support his GFM at this link.

Available Go Fund Me campaigns for people whose stories have been shared on watermelllonarchive can be found in the resources post.

[lake-lady]

This is such a difficult decision 🪱

[easylandscare]

Best Plants for Bedroom: Enhance Your Sleep and Air Quality

Lavender

Snake Plant (Sansevieria)

Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)

Epipremnum (Pothos)

Aloe Vera

Jasmine

Valerian

Cactus

Anthurium (Flamingo Flower)

Hedera Helix (English Ivy)

Philodendron

Chlorophytum Comosum (Spider Plant)

Gardenia

Areca Palm

For detailed benefits, check out the full article at the link!

Best Plants for Bedroom: Enhance Your Sleep and Air Quality

Transform your space and find the best plants for bedroom to boost air quality, reduce stress, and improve sleep quality.

[littlekiller823]

Our least favorite thing about coming out of a depressive episode is looking around and seeing the carnage my negligence has taken on my plant babies :( we literally *just* put out our tropicals for the summer.... Oh well, atleast we don't gotta worry about a cold snap

Sigghh... Let's recount our shame.....

There's this incredibly leggy monstera (dennie) who has been on the brink of death for the better part of two years, she has been dehydrated and sun kissed and then thrust into darkness only to be chewed on by my cat. Big thanks to @hope-system-draws for taking care of her for a bit

Anyway I just got her a moss pole so hopefully she'll recover

Then there's my snake plant which I've had for like, 4 years and I haven't watered in..... Ever, I don't think so God knows how it's still kicking

Next is this poor ficus which has seen better days that's for sure

My pothos has been doing like, weirdly well actually other then a little bit of legginess form lack of sunlight

I had to tie her up since she was covering my satin plant who, is not doing great but not to bad either

I don't even remember what this plant was (some sort of philodendron I think) I thought it died ages ago and I was just to lazy to clean out the pot but low and behold it has a sprout

I think I'ma wait till it gets a bit bigger before moving it outside with the others I'm worried about the sun being to strong with this heat wave

Then there's my perfect baby and pride and joy my verigated monstera

She's got a bit of browning but she is fairly new so not too much damage

And then there's my shame

. . .

I don't want to talk about this one.

I thiiiinnnnkkkkkk I can save him but the odds are uhh... Not in our favor.....

Anyway, point is depression sucks and people should give me more plants 👍