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HOUSEPLANTS AREN’T DISPOSABLE

Plants are resilient, yet they often get treated like the store-bought goldfish of the plant kingdom: cheap, leafy pets handed out as party favors...

Why We Love Plant Mamas

Plant mamas are the best because just like our own moms, everyone can be one regardless of gender. Sustaining plant life is a bit different than ra...

Interspecies Matchmaker

Is it just us or is the world falling in love with plants? Biophilia is in the air—our innate human attraction to nature and the green living thing...

Why Plants Make the Best Gift

Plants are more than the sum of their leaves, stems, fronds and roots. They serve as a reminder of nature’s wild beauty that we crave outside the c...

What's So Bad About Artificial Plants?

Houseplants have an archrival and it isn’t root rot or white mold or even your missed waterings. It’s fake plants, those unfortunate byproducts of ...

How To Deal with the Death of a Houseplant

Spring forces us to reconcile the living with the dead. Some plants aren’t meant to survive the bitter frost but have another purpose in the afterl...

What is Biophilia?

The term biophilia is actually Greek for “love of living things” and became popularized by a Harvard biologist named Edward O. Wilson. Wilson wrote...

Research Shows Plants Increase BDE

Plants are the key to the big D Recent studies shows that individuals who come into daily contact with plants are more likely to possess Big Dic...

Why the clay pot?

We have all been there, standing before heaving shelves of glossy ceramics, fluted concrete and ridged terracotta in endless shapes, sizes and pat...

The Superiority of Plants

We often call ourselves plant caretakers. We bring young shoots into our homes or prepare garden beds outside, supplying them with fresh water, nu...

Plants are for Lovers

The caretaking habits we form around our houseplants mirror how we take care of our hearts, loving ourselves not as an afterthought or a metaphor b...

Why Plants Make You Happy

The practice of collecting and caring for indoor plants is enjoying a revival but there’s nothing new about the human impulse to keep houseplants. ...