The people behind WildPlot
Every guide here is written, tested and signed by a person. Four regulars, no ghostwriters.
Harriet Lowell Lead writer
Former nursery and flower-shop work, familiar with how varieties behave. she focuses on choosing and timing.
- Which direction the light comes from: the few lines you need
- Which species propagate by leaf: key points and exceptions
- Keeping a monstera happy: it isn't actually complicated
- Humidity for areca palms: why it keeps failing
- Getting a bird of paradise to bloom: for a first attempt
- Disease in wet weeks: for a first attempt
- A seasonal record sheet: key points and exceptions
- Shade levels for summer: for a first attempt
Gideon Stark Contributing editor
Landscape design background in small spaces. he flags light and weight limits inside watering frequency in heat.
- Cleaning leaves properly: why it keeps failing
- Air-conditioned rooms: the few lines you need
- Dealing with scale insects: a cheaper route
- Why fiddle-leaf figs drop leaves: when to change approach
- Brown edges on calathea: the few lines you need
- Moisture in dry spells: when to change approach
- The year at a glance: the few lines you need
- Watering frequency in heat: a cheaper route
Thea Bergstrom Staff writer
Twelve years growing on balconies, with more failures than successes. she writes only what has been tested at home.
- Soil for repotting: breaking the problem apart
- Moving plants for winter: an honest three-month record
- Placing plants in a living room: out of the misconceptions
- Watering snake plants: out of the misconceptions
- Light for rubber plants: standard, rhythm, floor
- Securing plants before a storm: key points and exceptions
- When to repot in spring: what you only learn by doing
- Ventilation in the rainy season: the few lines you need
Emory Blake Regular contributor
Eight years writing gardening features, against treating plants as decor. he keeps them alive first, then beautiful.
- Diluting fertiliser: out of the misconceptions
- Converting water roots to soil: when to change approach
- Grouping foliage for effect: it isn't actually complicated
- Causes of yellow pothos leaves: it isn't actually complicated
- Root rot in money trees: standard, rhythm, floor
- Pests at the change of season: a cheaper route
- The order of spring pruning: a cheaper route
- Recognising heat dormancy: it isn't actually complicated