The Plant Rescuer: The book your houseplants want you to read

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Welcome to our exclusive interview series featuring houseplant professionals! In this series, we dive deep into the world of indoor plants and gain insights from experts who have a wealth of knowledge and experience in caring for and cultivating houseplants. In 2022 you released your first book The Plant Rescuer – The Book Your Houseplants Want You To Read. Can you give us an overview of the book’s central themes or messages? Measurements: The plant heights provided encompass the plant stem and the foliage length, along with the depth of the grow pot, which includes the living root system, and not just the portion of the plant that is visible above the soil level. The book is divided into three main parts: Nurture and Grow, Houseplants for Your Home, and How to Rescue and Propagate. I wrote it as a complete guide on how to care for houseplants and importantly what to do when things don’t go to plan. Throwing a plant away because it no longer looks perfect is an easy option, but in doing so you are just perpetuating the cycle of buying and killing plants – if you understand the symptoms you’ll break that cycle. I wrote this book because I want everyone to enjoy houseplants and for them not to be a cause of frustration and disappointment when they seemingly die for no reason. This book will help everyone understand their plant’s needs, keep them alive and most importantly enjoy them. If you’re looking for your first indoor plant, or just want something low-maintenance and beautiful, look no further than our range of easy care houseplants.

The Plant Rescuer Houseplant Chronicles: Sarah Gerrard-Jones, The Plant Rescuer

I’m excited for my next book and I’d love to see the Plant Rescue Boxes in even more stores and countries worldwide. This course has now passed, but you can be the first to know about the next one - and other workshops like this - by signing up to our newsletter here. As children we view nature with awe and wonder, but as we grow up our culture provides us with evidence that plants and animals exist purely to support the human race. We have been conditioned to see nature as a commodity to be exploited: a tree has more value chopped down than it has living; an elephant tusk is more valuable than the elephant itself. In our self-imposed role as overseers of nature, we can probably agree that we’ve failed on a monumental scale and that perhaps it’s time to realign ourselves with nature rather than lording over it. At a very basic level we need plants to exist and this fact alone should warrant our appreciation and respect. This masterclass will blend live demonstrations with ongoing Q&A, to open up your mind to the brilliant and fascinating world of houseplants. By the end, you will feel confident enough to tend to a troubled houseplant, rather than throwing it out and replacing it with a new one, and you will have discovered how to mix different soils, repotted some of your plants (if you like!) and more. This course is for …

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By enrolling on this masterclass, you’re helping to support the Guardian, and this allows us to keep our quality reporting open to all. Malvern will be working in collaboration with the RHS – providing the Houseplant Studios area at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. The most important thing you can do is give your plant enough light so it can photosynthesis. It might look nice in the corner of your room but it won’t look nice for long. I get really annoyed when I see interior design programs which use houseplants as decoration and put them in places where they won’t survive – this is sending out the wrong message. Plants are more than decoration, they need light to make food, if they can’t make food they will starve. So move all your plants closer to a window. This is very important in winter when the light levels are much lower than in summer. Shove all your plants to the brightest window in winter. Buy plants which are suitable for your home. If your house doesn’t get much light don’t buy a plant that requires bright light. Buy one that’s more suited to low light. If you don’t know which plants to buy, take a look at my book and see which plants are suitable for your home. Match the plant to the room and it will stand a better chance of surviving.

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If there was a house fire (after ensuring the safety of family and pets), what plant would you save first? Woven throughout The Plant Rescuer is a message of sustainability and being less wasteful when it comes to our plant habits. I explain why we should be buying plants which don’t look perfect and why we should care about so many that get thrown away. Plant production is a multi-billion-pound industry and with it comes all the environmental costs associated with mass production: energy and water consumption, peat consumption, chemical use, emissions from air and freight travel, not to mention the amount of non-biodegradable plastic used.Are there any specific moments or milestones in your career as a plant rescuer that you are particularly proud of or that have had a significant impact on you? I’d experienced such a sense of fulfilment from saving the orchids and seeing the dumb cane grow under my care, I couldn’t wait to find my next patient. I stepped up my search, scouring the local plant shop shelves at least once or twice a week looking for neglected and damaged plants. My heart would skip a beat, not when I saw the most beautiful plant, but when I came across the one with the bent stem or crispy brown leaves – it was that plant that I swiftly marched to the till. How Long Dogs Live For: Here's how long 18 popular breeds of adorable dog live on average - including the loving Labrador 🐕 I’m obsessed with an Ikea cabinet that I converted to house my rarer plants. It has grow lights and fans to circulate the air.

How to keep your houseplants alive: A masterclass with Sarah

Can you describe your creative process for developing content and engaging with your audience as the plant rescuer? How do you inspire and educate others to adopt sustainable practices? The contents of the box will vary all the time, if you have bought one before we can not guarantee you will get 4 different plants every time - we rescue any plants that need it.How do you hope readers will be impacted or affected by your book? What do you want them to take away from it? The first plants I rescued from the bin at my local DIY store were orchids that had finished flowering – no prizes for guessing why they were binned. Seeing them flower again following some basic care inspired me to look for other plants that could be saved before they were thrown away. If you consider yourself a serial plant murderer, this book will give you the confidence to stop your killing spree Modern life isn’t conducive to good mental health. There has never been greater pressure to be superhuman. Stress and anxiety are a reaction to feeling pulled in all directions and are exacerbated by not having the time to invest in self care. Slowing down, stripping out the ‘noise’ of daily life and simply focusing on nurturing a plant can help to give our tired brains a much-needed rest and have a renewing effect on our physical and mental wellbeing.