The people behind LeafyPlot
Every guide here is written, tested and signed by a person. Four regulars, no ghostwriters.
Jasper Nunez Lead writer
Twelve years growing on balconies, with more failures than successes. he writes only what has been tested at home.
- How leaf propagation works: it isn't actually complicated
- Splitting a clump: key points and exceptions
- Watering methods compared: a cheaper route
- When grafting makes sense: an honest three-month record
- The right grit-to-soil ratio: when to change approach
- Winter protection: standard, rhythm, floor
- Shade for hydrangeas: key points and exceptions
- Watering through flowering: a cheaper route
Cecily Hart Contributing editor
Landscape design background in small spaces. she flags light and weight limits inside pruning endless summer types.
- Restricting water in winter: it isn't actually complicated
- How often to repot: breaking the problem apart
- What brings out colour: an honest three-month record
- The risk of open-air growing: what you only learn by doing
- Recognising dormancy: an honest three-month record
- Replacing potted soil: when to change approach
- Propping up heavy heads: an honest three-month record
- Buds that refuse to open: it isn't actually complicated
Harriet Lowell Staff writer
Eight years writing gardening features, against treating plants as decor. she keeps them alive first, then beautiful.
- Fixing a stretched plant: an honest three-month record
- Choosing pot material: a cheaper route
- Treating pests and rot: standard, rhythm, floor
- Are grow lights worth it: why it keeps failing
- Reviving a mail-order plant: when to change approach
- Changing hydrangea colour: it isn't actually complicated
- Propagating roses: standard, rhythm, floor
- Choosing varieties that cope: when to change approach
Desmond Hale Regular contributor
Former nursery and flower-shop work, familiar with how varieties behave. he focuses on choosing and timing.
- When to take cuttings: breaking the problem apart
- Why top dressing helps: out of the misconceptions
- Managing the settling-in period: it isn't actually complicated
- Getting a cactus to flower: why it keeps failing
- Keeping a succulent record: breaking the problem apart
- Pruning endless summer types: key points and exceptions
- Grafting or cuttings: why it keeps failing
- Roses on a balcony: out of the misconceptions