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.
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- · Personal licence
€15
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The calathea file
The most dramatic plant in the shop, filed properly — the diva that folds up to pray every night.
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The complete dossier on the calathea (Goeppertia) — the plant with the highest save-rate on PlantTok and the one that killed my first houseplant in eleven days. Inside: the honest review, the tap-water story behind every crispy edge, the humidity truth, why she moves after dark, how she fakes death, and which variety is worth it (and the one trap). Written from the survivor.
- · 18-page PDF
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- · Personal licence
What's inside
- The care card
- The eleven days
- The water report
- The humidity question
- The night shift
- She's not dead, she's sulking
- The diva translation table
- Which one's worth it
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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The fern person's pack
The fussy, humidity-hungry ones, honestly decoded.
The fern file · The calathea file · The humidity handbook
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The plant everyone gets as a gift and nobody understands — starting with the fact that her flower is a leaf.
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The ten plants that actually live on my shelf — who they are, how they arrived, and the order a beginner should copy.
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