The beginner plant list
12 plants I'd actually buy again (and 5 I wouldn't)
- · 38-page PDF
- · Care notes per plant
- · Shopping checklist
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Field guide · PDF
The terrarium field guide
A rainforest, in a jar — the only garden that waters itself, hides from the cat, and files its own weather report.
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How to build a sealed bottle ecosystem that waters itself — the water-cycle argument (and the famous jar that ran 40 years), closed vs open, the vessel, the false bottom done honestly, the cast of plants that actually live sealed, and how to read the fog on the glass like a weather report. Cat-safe by design: the one garden a committed leaf-chewer physically can't reach.
- · 19-page PDF
- · Print-at-home
- · Personal licence
What's inside
- The sealed-jar thesis
- The build, on one page
- Closed vs open
- The vessel
- The layer system
- The cast list
- The build sequence + reading the fog
- When it goes wrong + the springtails
- The weather report + the "sealed on" label
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 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
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Moving with plants
Move a whole collection without a casualty list.
- · 18-page PDF
- · Print-at-home
- · Personal licence
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Twenty houseplant myths, put on trial — with the true fact kept and the one thing to do instead.
- · 18-page PDF
- · Print-at-home
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