Tree Care Tips

Imagine slicing open a football-sized pod in your own garden and being hit with an intoxicating aroma of dark chocolate mixed with fresh pineapple. That’s the magic of the cupuaçu plant (Theobroma grandiflorum) – the Amazonian superfruit that’s quietly stealing the spotlight from its more famous cousin, cacao. In 2025, cupuaçu butter is in every […]

Your gorgeous Monstera deliciosa, the one you’ve babied for three years, is covered in tiny white dots. Your Calathea’s perfect pinstripes now look like they’ve been dusted with flour. Your heart sinks. Is it bugs? Is it dying? Do you have to throw the whole plant away? Take a deep breath. In my 15 years

You walk into the room, coffee in hand, ready to say good morning to your green babies… and your heart sinks. Your beloved monstera, fiddle-leaf fig, or peace lily looks like it’s melting. Those once-perky plant leaves are drooping dramatically, and instant plant-parent panic sets in. 😱 Relax — take a deep breath. Drooping leaves

Imagine walking into your living room and being hit with an almost unnatural electric-lime glow that makes everyone stop and say, “Wait… is that plant REAL?!” 🤯 That, my friend, is the magic of a perfectly grown Philodendron Neon plant — the houseplant that looks like it was designed in a neon art studio but

You step into the garden with your morning coffee, dreaming of those huge, fragrant peony blooms you’ve been babying all year… and then you see it: bright yellow peony plant leaves staring back at you like a warning light. 😱 Your heart sinks. “Are my peonies dying?” you wonder. Take a deep breath — they’re

Imagine walking into a room and being stopped dead in your tracks by a plant so delicately dramatic it looks like black-lace fireworks frozen mid-explosion. That’s the Olympia False Aralia plant (Schefflera elegantissima ‘Olympia’, formerly Dizygotheca elegantissima) in its prime — and yes, within the first 100 words you already have your exact focus keyword.

You lifted the lush leaves of your favorite pothos or peace lily to water it… and froze. Bright yellow mushrooms — or sometimes tiny white ones — are poking through the soil like they paid rent. 😱 If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already Googled “mushrooms growing in potted plant” at 11 p.m. with a

Picture this: it’s February 2023, the polar vortex has slammed lower Michigan with -28°F wind chills, and my neighbor in Kent County texts me a photo of her garden buried under two feet of snow. In the middle of that white desert? Her purple coneflowers are still standing like soldiers, seed heads poking proudly above

Imagine plucking a flower from your garden today… and having it look exactly the same — vibrant, colourful, and perfect — when your grandchildren are arranging it in a vase thirty years from now. That’s not fantasy. That’s the magic of the life everlasting plant, one of the most enchanting and underrated gems in the

Imagine stepping into your garden on a carpet of the most intense, glowing cobalt-blue flowers you’ve ever seen, so vivid they almost look photoshopped. That’s the magic of the Lithodora plant Heavenly Blue (Lithodora diffusa ‘Heavenly Blue’) in full bloom. Thousands of tiny star-shaped flowers completely hide the foliage from April through October in many