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 its tropical climate and intense sunlight, you’ll find temperatures here remain between … Continue reading All about Watermelon Peperomia
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 called on him, for merely being Black and occupying … Continue reading Black Botanists Week 2021
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 classic box included a beautiful medium sized … Continue reading Plant Club: July 2021
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 and summary of what general information is … Continue reading All about Grow Lights
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”. Perhaps her telling me … Continue reading Toxicity and Plants
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 delivered some stunning high value items. The Plants: … Continue reading Plant Club: June 2021
Recently my inbox has been flooded with people talking about the Philodendron Florida Ghosts that were for sale at Woolworths for a mere R199. Most recently, one of these plants sold for R119 732 on a bid in New Zealand. And the predominant accompanying question regarding these plants from Woolies is the fact that there … Continue reading The Elusive Ghost
Ok so we know you’re plant mad right now. And there’s nothing more awesome than expressing your love for plants in what you wear. Something that I’ve been super into recently is botanical jewellery and I’ve found a whole host of amazing brands that are here to satisfy that need. These brands are dedicated to … Continue reading Botanical Jewellery
May is my favourite time of the year, the season just starts changing into something slightly colder but we still get so many bright sunny days. I feel like the boxes this month represented the happy-go-lucky sentiment of the month and they really came together nicely. The Plants: The Classic box included a Maidenhair Vine … Continue reading Plant Club: May 2021
I recently spoke to the absolute King of Strings, Morné from @urbanjunglecapetown, about how best to care for 'Strings of Things'. Included in this self-named category are String of Pearls, String of Beads, String of Bananas, String of Watermelons - basically any succulent with very thin stems and bulbous, water carrying leaves. Here on some … Continue reading How to care for ‘Strings of Things’
