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My first philodendron plant was a heartbreaker. I bought a beautiful Brazilian variety from a market stall, put it on a shelf in

The first time I tried to figure out how to plant tulip bulbs, I did everything wrong in the most avoidable ways possible.

My first attempt at growing lights for indoor plants was a disaster in slow motion. I bought a cheap purple LED strip from

My first attempt at green velvet boxwood planting ended with three dead shrubs in the span of a single summer — I set

A few years ago I was staring at tomato plants with leaves going yellow between the veins — green veins, faded yellow tissue

The day I found my cat Mango systematically chewing tips off my spider plant, my stomach dropped. I’d had that plant for two

I spent the better part of that winter figuring out what I had done wrong — reading through botany papers on bromeliad trichome

I installed my first backyard pond and added a water plant water feature to a raised container garden five summers ago, convinced that

I planted my first obedient plant along a sunny garden border three seasons ago with modest expectations — a neighbour had given me

The day I brought my first lipstick plant home from the garden center, I hung it in a dim corner of my living