Plant red flags
Twenty warning signs to check in the shop, before the till — the five-minute skill that saves you hundreds and keeps spider mites off the shelf you already love.
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The heatwave guide
The 35-degree week, survived — what heat actually does to a plant, and exactly what to do by the forecast.
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Europe's summers are 35-degree weeks now, and your tropicals were built for a rainforest. This is the emergency playbook: what heat actually does (she stops growing and starts enduring), the signature Heat Ladder that tells you what to do at 30°, at 35°, and above, the burns you can ignore versus the ones you can't, and the one card you cut out and tape to the fridge before it hits.
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What's inside
- What heat actually does
- The Heat Ladder
- The 48 hours before + emergency mode
- The burn triage
- The watering truths
- Who shrugs it off vs who breaks first
- The cooling hacks, honestly rated
- The write-in extras
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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Thirty plants your cat can audition for dinner — safely.
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What actually survives a north-facing room — the honest buy list for the flat with one sad window.
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