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Monstera Adansonii Care: The Swiss Cheese Vine
How to care for a monstera adansonii, the trailing Swiss cheese vine, with the light, watering, and support that give it bigger, hole-filled leaves.
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Care profiles for popular houseplants, from pothos and snake plant to ferns and succulents: light, water, soil, and propagation for each.
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Peperomia Care: A Guide to the Easy Radiator Plants
A care guide for peperomia, the compact semi-succulent houseplants, covering light, the watering habits that prevent rot, and why they stay small.
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Pilea Peperomioides Care: The Chinese Money Plant
How to care for a pilea peperomioides, the coin-leaf Chinese money plant, with light, watering, and how to harvest the offsets it pups freely.
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Polka Dot Plant Care: Keeping the Spots Bright and the Plant Bushy
A care guide for the polka dot plant, with the light that keeps its pink or white spots vivid and the pinching that stops it growing tall and leggy.
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Ponytail Palm Care: The Drought-Tolerant Not-a-Palm
A care guide for the ponytail palm, covering the bright light and very infrequent watering this succulent-like plant needs, despite the palm name.
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Prayer Plant Care: Growing Maranta Without Crispy Edges
How to care for a maranta prayer plant, with the humidity, water quality, and light that keep its leaves from going crispy at the edges.
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Staghorn Fern Care: Watering and Mounting the Antler Fern
A care guide for the staghorn fern, covering how to water its two leaf types, why it is usually mounted on a board, and the light it needs indoors.
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String of Hearts Care: Growing Ceropegia Woodii Indoors
A care guide for string of hearts, covering the light it needs to keep tight heart-shaped leaves, sparing watering, and how to propagate from the tubers.
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String of Pearls Care: Keeping the Beads Plump, Not Shrivelled
How to grow a string of pearls indoors, with the bright light and careful watering that keep the beads round instead of shrivelled or mushy.
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Tradescantia Care: Keeping Inch Plant Colourful and Full
How to grow tradescantia (inch plant) indoors, with the bright light that keeps its purple and silver colour and the pinching that stops it going leggy.
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Kalanchoe Care: Watering, Light, and Getting It to Rebloom
Learn how to water and light a kalanchoe like the succulent it is, plus the darkness trick that forces it to flower again.
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Parlor Palm Care: An Easy Indoor Palm for Lower Light
A care guide for the parlor palm, one of the few indoor palms that tolerates low light, with watering and brown-tip fixes.
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Umbrella Plant Care: Growing Schefflera Indoors
How to keep a Schefflera umbrella plant bushy and upright indoors, with light, watering, and pruning tips to prevent leggy stems.
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Yucca Plant Care: Growing the Indoor Yucca Without Root Rot
A care guide for indoor yucca covering light, infrequent watering, and the overwatering mistakes that kill an otherwise nearly indestructible plant.
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Aeonium Care: Growing Black Rose and Other Varieties
How to care for aeonium succulents including the dark Zwartkop, with advice on their summer dormancy, watering, and light needs.
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Bird's Nest Fern Care: A Forgiving Fern for Lower Light
How to care for a bird's nest fern indoors, a forgiving fern that tolerates lower light and needs less fuss than most ferns.
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Boston Fern Care: Keeping This Classic Fern Lush Indoors
Everything you need to keep a Boston fern lush indoors, covering humidity, watering, light, and why the fronds keep dropping crispy leaflets.
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Echeveria Care: Keeping the Rosette Succulent Colourful
How to care for echeveria succulents indoors and out, with advice on light, watering, soil, and keeping their rosettes tight and bright.
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Haworthia Care: Growing the Zebra Succulent Indoors
A care guide for haworthia, the zebra succulent, covering its tolerance for lower light, careful watering, and slow, tidy growth.
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Hoya Carnosa Care: Growing the Wax Plant Indoors
A complete care guide to Hoya carnosa, covering light, watering, soil, and humidity so the wax plant stays healthy and eventually blooms indoors.
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Hoya Kerrii Care: The Sweetheart Plant Explained
How to care for Hoya kerrii, the heart-shaped sweetheart plant, including light, watering, and whether a single-leaf cutting will ever grow.
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Hoya Varieties: 12 Types Worth Growing Indoors
A tour of popular hoya varieties, from carnosa to kerrii and krimson queen, with notes on leaves, flowers, and how easy each is.
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Jade Plant Care: Growing Crassula Ovata Indoors
A complete care guide for the jade plant, covering light, watering, soil, pruning, and how to keep this slow succulent compact and healthy.
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Alocasia Care: Light, Water, and Surviving Dormancy
A care guide for alocasia covering its light and watering needs and explaining why the plant sometimes drops leaves and goes dormant.