Humidity is the relative amount of water vapour that the air can hold at a given time. This is usually measured on a scale of 0% to 100%. 0% on the one side is very dry and 100% is very wet. Often plant blogs suggest around 60-80% humidity levels for your plants to...

The definition of scalping relating to commerce is “the activity of buying things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual price and then selling them when they are difficult to get at higher prices” Let’s start with the fact that this is illegal in the United States....

I love the smell of fires from chimneys in Winter, and this is exactly what August provides. You know what else August provides? An awesome Plant Club box! The Plants This year was the year I started dipping my toes into the world of Hoyas. So I thought it was only...

Alocasia baginda, otherwise known as Alocasia Dragonscale are making the rounds in South Africa at the moment, and although they’re absolutely stunning to look at, you should try and equip yourself with as much knowledge as possible on how to properly care for this...

Peperomia argyreia- This beautiful plant gained its common name because of its look-alike watermelon foliage. It is native to the rainforests in northern South America and some of the countries you can find it in is Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. Known for...

Black Botanists Week was started in 2020 by a group of Black professionals in the Botany and plant science fields. It was ignited with the Central Park birdwatching incident in NY in 2020 that saw a Black birdwatcher being labelled as ‘threatening’ and having the cops...

I looked really hard for some amazing plants for this month. The idea was to get something colourful for the classic boxes and a rare plant for the collector’s box that I have in my collection that I thought would be something special for collectors. The Plants The...

Guys. As an average joe who just wanted to help my indoor tropical plants out a little bit during Winter, I have never been more bombarded with more confusing information in my life. Grow lights are a science. This blogpost is meant to give a very BASIC understanding...

At a young age of around 5/6, I was in the garden watching my mom prune our very large Elephant’s Ear- she was hacking away at it and these huge discarded leaves had white crunchy looking stems. I’m not sure why she said it, but she did. “Don’t eat those leaves”....

Just because it’s winter it doesn’t mean that there are fewer plants around! Nope! We had some fantastic plants in this month’s boxes. And we really wanted to treat people to more than one plant. The brands included also stepped their game up and as per usual...