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There are 3 main things that will make your plant thrive or suffer and it’s not the color of your thumb: Light, water, and growing medium (the ‘soil’ your plants are growing in). If you can meet these properly you should see success. Secondary, but closely related would be: humidity (not as important oh except for in the winter or extremely dry climates. Whole post coming), temperature (within reason) and fertilizer. We will get into specifics in a separate post later as well as accompanying posts on specific plants. 

When deciding on a plant look up the plants needs, that is water, light, and medium. Most will be on a tag if you are buying from a big box store while others you'll need to look up if not listed with the plant online or in store. It's important to know the growing medium type because some will be ready to be repotted sooner than later and when ordering online many plants will ship bare root. Bare root means all the soil/medium has been removed and you will need to pot it. 

After collecting the information on the plant you’ve picked you need to compare it to your current conditions and how you may be able to make it work or not. Many common and collectors plants will acclimate fairly well and give you a rewarding show of leaves. 

Light will often be your biggest hurdle to find and get right. For flowering plants there is a bit less wiggle room when it comes to this if you want more blooms. 

Luckily, with the increased interest in plant collecting many shops will have information on difficulty level listed somewhere so you will have a heads up on what you are getting into or if something maybe out of your current level of experience.

To navigate to pages on general information such as intro, light, watering, general plant info ex orchids, click the link in the pages section to the right desk top, drop down. on mobile. You'll find those posts there while other posts such as specific plants will be post recent first and also located in the posts section to the right. You can always use the search function as well to locate a post. 

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