
Trace the evolution from an indoor jungle to the greenhouse, including Roman beds on wheels moved to sun and winter frames glazed with transparent stone or mica.
Learn how fertilizer supplies essential minerals to indoor plants, guided by the npk ratio, light and watering influences, and how to choose and apply liquid, powder, or slow-release formats.
Understand how humidity affects water absorption via stomata and why tropical houseplants favor 60–80% humidity. Learn simple tools like pebble trays and humidity monitors to tailor watering.
Learn propagation techniques to grow more plants from stem cuttings, leaf cuttings, and root division. Master nodes, sterile cutting methods, and rooting media to prevent rot and expand your jungle.
Saffron, based in Cape Town South Africa, has over 800 plants and she doesn't intend to stop there! Through collecting these plants over the past fifteen years, she has learned many tips and tricks to keep them happy. It's now time to share that knowledge with you in a concise and easy-to-understand way. This course was put together with the guidance of botanists, growers and experts in the field in order to ensure that you only get the best knowledge. You might want to improve the health of your plants, identify issues with them, learn how to propagate them or even just to learn the history and origin of them. Any one of these reasons will set you up on the right path for this course.
This course will give you the tools to comprehensively look after your indoor plants. The history and the origins of your plants will provide you with a concrete base in which to understand them, and then looking at how to care for them through their environmental needs, you will be able to troubleshoot what may be wrong with them. Other issues that we look at are pests and diseases, and we learn how to tackle them. Finally, propagation is the name of the game, and we provide you with great tips on how to buy new plants.