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Weather? More like an unmedicated mood disorder. If you live around Flowery Branch too, then you know the old saying: "If you don't like the weather, just wait and it'll change." Last Friday, I was out plant shopping like it was full on spring! 75 degrees, sun shining, birds chirping...and then, it changed. For the last two nights, we've had a fire in the fireplace, the gas furnace kicking on incessantly (GNG, you're killing me with the therm pricing this year), and we're pu

What is that spot on my plant? Is it a bug?! Blind panic sets in and I immediately start thinking about how in the world I'm going to quarantine this ONE plant (or has it spread already) when I only have JUST ENOUGH grow lights for everyone in the current setup. I definitely don't want this plant to wither away without enough light, but I also don't want every other plant to "catch" whatever it is this one has... Wait...it's not moving. And it's...sticky? Maybe it's honeydew

Update: Harry’s owner shared that he actually had a 'brother' plant named Barry who was donated to a local elementary school. It’s a wonderful reminder that while some plant stories end, others continue to grow in our community. Opening a plant shop is about more than just finding the perfect specimen. It’s about the stories we build with them. Recently, I was asked to look at a local favorite: Harry. Harry was a Ficus who had been with his family for three decades. Unfortuna

Did you know the Philodendron joepii was discovered in the wild because a guy named Joep Moonen thought it looked like it had been eaten by bugs? It's one of the rarest-looking shapes in the plant world, so when I found a pot with two of them in it near Gainesville, I just had to have it. The bottom leaves of this plant are long and thin - they don't necessarily have the tri-lobed structure of the more mature leaves further up. But man-oh-man as the plant grows, so do the l

I moved to Flowery Branch a little over six years ago, following my heart like a lovesick 30-something romantic. Our whirlwind summer dating got serious in October, and I got to experience my very first NE GA fall & winter roller-coaster in our suburban home. The house sits on ¾ of an acre or so, and anyone who has experienced the joys of fall and early winter around here knows one thing that I did not at the time: there are leaves. Lots and LOTS of leaves. (Like “we accident

I’ve been buying house plants for years now, and as my collection has grown, so have my planting ‘supplies’. When I first got started, I didn’t know what sort of substrate would work best, so I did what a lot of people do – I bought a big bag of Miracle Gro soil and started repotting in it. Looking back, I must have gotten really lucky. It took me a while to start seeing gnats, and even when I did start seeing them, there weren’t that many. I controlled them with the usual su