Author name: Sarah Mitchell

My peace lily is easily the most dramatic plant I’ve ever owned, and I mean that as a compliment. Within […]

My ZZ plant is the only houseplant I’ve ever hurt through kindness rather than neglect. I bought it specifically because

I’ve owned three different dracaenas at once for a few years now — a corn plant (Dracaena fragrans) in my

I bought my Chinese Evergreen specifically because every plant shop employee I asked recommended it as “impossible to mess up.”

My spider plant was a hand-me-down from my mom, already several years old, with plantlets dangling off it in every

I killed my first string of pearls in about six weeks. I loved how it looked in the nursery —

When I outgrew my single windowsill and moved a chunk of my collection to a metal shelving unit in a

The first time I dealt with indoor plant pests, I didn’t actually see the bugs — I noticed my pothos

I bought my first Monstera deliciosa three years ago as a six-inch cutting in a plastic cup, already rooted, from

My pothos propagation habit started because I felt guilty throwing away a vine I’d trimmed for length. It had gotten