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

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The Plantrescuer rescue box is filled with indoor plants that have imperfections or that simply didn’t sell quick enough.

The Plant Rescuer by Sarah Gerrard-Jones | Waterstones The Plant Rescuer by Sarah Gerrard-Jones | Waterstones

If there was a house fire (after ensuring the safety of family and pets), what plant would you save first? The technical advance is the inclusion of fully soluble calcium, formerly too difficult and expensive for liquid fertiliser.It struck me as really sad that these healthy plants were being thrown away simply because they’d stopped flowering so I asked if I could take them home.

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Don’t jump on the bandwagon, stand on the pavement, wave it goodbye and get back to the job of caring for your plants in your own way. You’ll understand how to pick up on your plants’ cries for help and remedy the problem before it’s too late. Plants in winter don’t need as much water as they do in summer so don’t water on a schedule as the plants needs change throughout the seasons based on light and temperature. The initiative has been created in partnership with Sarah Gerrard-Jones, author of The Plant Rescuer, who won Gold for her houseplant studio ‘The Plant Clinic’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022. Growing plants that thrive is simply a case of taking the time to understand what your house plant needs to survive and what it’s conveying through changes in its appearance.I was still very much a novice houseplant enthusiast, but I could immediately see what had caused the leaf to turn black: it had been planted directly into a decorative pot that didn’t have a drainage hole, the soil was damp and the plant wasn’t receiving any natural light.