The alocasia file
The honest dossier on the most beautiful plant that will make you doubt yourself, monthly — including the one page that stops you binning her alive.
- · 19-page PDF
- · Print-at-home
- · Personal licence
€15
Field guide · PDF
The begonia file
The collector's genus, honestly filed — three tribes, one white-dust villain, and the leaves that outshine the flowers.
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The begonia isn't one plant — it's three, wearing the same name. This 19-page field guide sorts the whole genus into its tribes (the polka-dot wings, the painted rex diva, the quiet rhizomatous survivor), each with its own honest care, then hands you the one thing that actually kills them indoors: powdery mildew, and how airflow beats it. Watering, light for colour, the winter melt, leaf-propagation magic, a variety tour, write-in logs and cut-outs included.
- · 19-page PDF
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- · Personal licence
What's inside
- The honest review
- The three tribes
- The white dust
- Watering on a knife-edge
- Light for colour & the melt
- The party trick
- The variety tour
- Buying checks, a write-in log with a mildew patrol, her diary page, and pot-stake + gift-tag cut-outs
Who's behind this
I'm not a botanist, and I don't have 150 plants — I keep a windowsill's worth, and I've killed a few learning how (a Calathea in eleven days is how this whole thing started). When something goes wrong I go down the rabbit hole: the studies, the extension-horticulture pages, the 2am forum threads, and every horror story plant people send in on @leafjournal on TikTok. These guides are that mix — hands-on experience checked against the research, cleaned up and told straight. No lab, no sponsorships, no “trust me.” Just what actually keeps a plant alive, so yours isn't the one that learns it the hard way.
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Everything a first plant needs — and the red flags before you buy.
The beginner's ten · The unkillables · Plant red flags
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The anthurium file
The plant everyone gets as a gift and nobody understands — starting with the fact that her flower is a leaf.
- · 20-page PDF
- · Print-at-home
- · Personal licence
€15
The beginner's ten
The ten plants that actually live on my shelf — who they are, how they arrived, and the order a beginner should copy.
- · 19-page PDF
- · Print-at-home
- · Personal licence
€15
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