{"id":121446,"date":"2021-08-13T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-have-tried-everything-but-my-houseplant-just-isnt-happy-coco-khan\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:05:55","slug":"i-have-tried-everything-but-my-houseplant-just-isnt-happy-coco-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-have-tried-everything-but-my-houseplant-just-isnt-happy-coco-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"I have tried everything, but my houseplant just isn\u2019t happy | Coco Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u2018You can do all the right things but sometimes it just doesn\u2019t happen. That\u2019s life,\u2019 says the nice man at the garden centreMaybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m still new to the houseplant craze, having only begun this summer, but I can\u2019t 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\u2019s house, standing tall and lively as if to say, \u201cTa-da!\u201d 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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\u2018You can do all the right things but sometimes it just doesn\u2019t happen. 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