Property News · August 13, 2021

I have tried everything, but my houseplant just isn’t happy | Coco Khan


‘You can do all the right things but sometimes it just doesn’t happen. That’s life,’ says the nice man at the garden centreMaybe it’s because I’m still new to the houseplant craze, having only begun this summer, but I can’t get Shirley (my aloe vera plant) out of my head. She droops atop my medicine cabinet, her leaves yellow and creased. She did not look like this during the years she was at my friend’s house, standing tall and lively as if to say, “Ta-da!” But when she was given to me, something changed.I have tried everything. I have tweaked the light by increments both ways, and done the same with water. When the heatwave hit, I bought a little spritz gun, visiting her twice daily (one spritz for Shirley and one for me, a cooling blast to the face). Different rooms. Plant food. Repotting. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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