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 snake plant & zz file
The two plants everyone calls "unkillable" — and the honest file on why you keep drowning them anyway.
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Prefer the lot? The cactus person's pack for €35 — save €10.
The snake plant and the ZZ are sold as impossible to kill, then killed constantly — by care itself. This honest double review covers the one way they actually die (a mushy base), the succulent logic behind watering them monthly, light truth, propagation from pups and potato-shaped rhizomes, the whole variety line-up, and toxicity. Warm, dry, and genuinely useful, with the emptiest watering log you'll ever own.
- · 18-page PDF
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- · Personal licence
What's inside
- The double verdict
- How to kill an unkillable
- The one way she dies
- Light, honestly
- The succulent logic + the ZZ shine story
- Pups, division & the ZZ's underground "potatoes"
- The variety tour
- The emptiest log, two rival plant diaries, and a "do not water me" pot-stake cut-out
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 cactus person's pack
Plants that forgive the forgetful — sun-loving and near-unkillable.
The succulents indoors file · The snake plant & zz file · The hot window list
€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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