5 Tips to Help You Care for Your Plants - We Swear They are Really Easy
/If you were lucky enough to hop on our plant train before quarantine hit, then you may be finding yourself in deep and surrounded by all sorts of lovely greenery in your home. And if you are like us, you may have even started talking to your plants at some point during these 7 plus weeks of being stuck at home, no judgement, really, we too are a hot minute away from becoming best friends with a volleyball, Wilson!!!!
Tip 1 - Make a Schedule
Set a certain time each week to care for your plants, I water mine every Friday, it’s just burned into my brain at this point. It’s actually become my special zen time, I slow sip a cup of coffee and mozy around the house to water my 30 plus plants and do a general wellness check on them.
Tip 2 - Know Your Plant
When you bring your plants home, it’s important to keep track of your cast of characters. You will need to know the names of your plants so that down the line you can easily look up some tips online if you come across a problem or two. We like to make a cheat sheet, a simple excel doc will do, with your plant name and location in your home, we even give these to our clients after our installs.
Tip 3 - Change with the Season
It’s a good idea to do a wellness check every once in a while, and think about how happy your plant is looking in its current location? Plants change and grow just like we do, and their needs change as well. Seasonal changes can affect your plants, and a once heavenly lit sunny window in the winter months can turn into a burning inferno and overheat your plants come summer. Pay attention to the changes in your plants and experiment with new locations that may better suit their individual needs.
Tip 4 - Spring is Special
Spring time, like right now if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, is a great time to add some extra nutrients to your plant care routine, throw in some fertilizer into your weekly watering routine to help boost plant growth during their active growing season. Just like a sleepy bear that hibernates all winter, your plants are now waking up from their winter slumber, and they are hungry, be a good plant mama and feed yo’ babies! Just be sure not to pour water with fertilizer on your actual plant leaves, which can scorch them, focus your watering skills on the soil.
Tip 5 - Do Not Overwater
If you are still with me, bless your heart, I am deep into my favorite subject here, so if you take nothing else away, this is the one tip to remember. Please do not overwater your plants. Most plants meet their doom by too much water, too much water literally drowns the plants and causes a host of nasty conditions like root rot, and this is no bueno.
Gear Up!
Time to get you geared up with some pretty plant care accessories, this will be sure to make your plant care routine that much more enjoyable, kind of like buying yourself some “nice” workout gear in hopes that they will motivate you to actually workout, but instead you just end up lounging around your house in said fancy workout gear, or is that just me? I digress, it is actually nice to have some fun accessories as part of your routine, some that would even make Martha Stewart proud, life goals!!!
Below are links to some of our favorite plant gear, and as a bonus, they are all from small businesses, and as we know this is a great time to support small businesses.
Unleash your inner plant lady with these fun planters, they are perfect to brighten up your kids room or just make you smile, we love things that don’t take themselves too seriously!
These planters are minimal, neutral, just perfect. Will make any plant look like a pretty lady!
These modern concrete cuties come in an array of colors. We need these in all the colors, but blush and gray are our favorites.
Now a true plant lady needs the proper gear, and we love these gardening shears, they are perfect for pruning and keeping your plants from getting to unruly.
Great little watering can to take your watering routine to the next level.
If you are a newly anointed plant lady, welcome to the club. Grab a few of these classic cuttings and you will be well on your way.
Watermelon Peperomia argyreia (Peperomia argyreia)
Pilea Peperomioides Plant, Chinese Money Plant
If you just can’t jump on the “real plant” train, we get you, you can still add some lovely botanical art to your home to help bring the outdoors in.
Here are some of our favorites pieces.
We love the minimal, clean lines of these sketches. (link here)
Again we love the clean lines, and really love the color blocking. (link here)
A simple botanical photo is always a go-to. (link here)
That’s a wrap, we hope that we have inspired you to embrace your inner plant lady and to take the plunge and bring some lovely greens into your home. For us, a space doesn’t feel complete without some of these beauties. Don’t forget to share your journey along with us by using the hashtag #grayoakplantclub.
- Sonia
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