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 fiddle leaf fig file
The honest review of the interior-magazine tree that punishes you for believing the photo.
€15incl. VAT
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Prefer the lot? The sprout person's pack for €35 — save €10.
The fiddle leaf fig is the most expensive disappointment in the house — a full-sun rainforest tree sold as a calm corner ornament. This 18-page field guide decodes her brown spots, explains why moving her one metre costs a fortnight of leaves, tells you the light nobody admits she needs, and shows you what a healthy €60 tree actually looks like before you buy. Warm, honest, ruthlessly practical.
- · 18-page PDF
- · Print-at-home
- · Personal licence
What's inside
- The care card
- Brown spots, decoded
- The light nobody admits
- The relocation grief cycle
- Watering by weight
- The wobble & the notch
- Lyrata vs bambino
- Cut-outs: the "do not move me" doorhanger, pot stake & shop card
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.
Best value
The sprout person's pack
Everything a first plant needs — and the red flags before you buy.
The beginner's ten · The unkillables · Plant red flags
€35€45
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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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