My Florida Ghost cutting saga started with one very bad decision. I snipped a beautiful stem off my mother plant and dropped it straight into tap water. No rooting hormone. No warm spot. Just a…
Walk into any serious plant collector’s home, and you will likely stop dead at one plant. Its leaves are big and green. But those petioles? They are covered in soft, vivid red-orange fuzz. That is…
The White Knight is the kind of plant that stops a conversation cold when someone sees it for the first time. Those burgundy stems. The creamy white and green patches on every leaf. The way…
My squamiferum dropped three leaves in four days. I stood there staring at it, completely confused. This wasn’t some plant I’d just brought home. I’d been growing it for over a year — I knew…
My very first velvet-leaf philodendron nearly broke me. Not a verrucosum. It was a Melanochrysum. I killed it within three weeks of buying it. The soil stayed soggy. The roots turned to mush. Game over….
My first Philodendron plowmanii almost broke my confidence as a grower. Not because it was sick. It was perfectly healthy. It just sat there for months looking the same. No new leaves. No movement. Nothing….
I got my first Philodendron tortum during my third year of collecting, right around the time my plant shelf started taking over the living room. It came from a trade with another grower in South…
The first time I saw a Philodendron Florida Ghost in person, I genuinely stopped walking. The plant had three or four leaves in different stages of its color journey — one still white, one drifting…
My Burle Marx threw a yellow leaf at me during its third week in my home. I had brought it back from a local nursery in spring of 2021, and it looked completely healthy on…
Brown spots on a philodendron mamei have a way of stopping you cold — especially once you know what this plant actually costs. I went through that exact panic in my third year of collecting,…