Gag Gifts for Christmas That People Actually Keep
Whatever is still sitting on the office gift-exchange table at 4:30 was a gag gift with only one move. The ones that survive January all do a job.
Plant Care
Keeping Air Plants in the Bathroom: What Actually Works
The shower does not water your air plant. It only slows down how fast it dries, which is the difference between a healthy tillandsia and a rotted one.
Housewarming Gifts: Why a Plant in the Right Pot Beats a Candle
By day four in a new house, a person already has four candles. Here is what to bring instead, matched to the human rather than to the house.
The Best Plants for 3D Printed Pots (and Three We’d Keep Out)
PLA softens around 130 degrees, and that one number decides more about which plants belong in a printed pot than anything else. Here is the honest list.
Gifts for Plant Lovers Under $20 That Aren’t Another Candle
Seven planters under $20, each picked for a specific person rather than an occasion, plus the two things we’d leave on the shelf.
Hanging Planters for Indoors: Start With the Weight
A hook pulled out of Jill’s hallway ceiling at six in the morning. Here’s the weight math, the anchor that actually holds, and why hanging a plant is not a cat strategy.
Why Your Air Plant Is Turning Brown (and How to Save It)
Brown is not one diagnosis. Where the brown sits tells you whether you have rot, thirst, mineral burn or sunburn, and three of those are fixable tonight.
Air Plant Holders: How to Pick One That Won’t Rot Your Plant
Most air plants die in the hour after their soak, not during it. Here’s what an air plant holder has to do about airflow, and why we stopped trusting glass globes.
Animal Planters: A Field Guide
Eight arms, an owl, and a sloth that has to come down to be watered. What each animal planter actually holds, who it suits, and where people go wrong with them.
15 Air Plant Display Ideas for Small Spaces
Every air plant display idea online is a glass globe, and a glass globe is one of the worst places to keep a tillandsia. Fifteen that work in rooms with no spare surface.