Notes from the greenhouse
Honest writing about plants, growing, and the work we do.
Nine posts a year, no listicles, no SEO bait. Just what we learn from the plants and the people who buy them.
8 posts
The five-minute repot
You don't need a tarp, three tools, and a YouTube tutorial. You need a slightly bigger pot, fresh soil, and five clear minutes.
Adaeze Okonkwo
Apr 03, 2026
A field guide to brown leaf tips
Brown tips mean six different things depending on where they are, what color they are, and how the rest of the leaf looks. We made a chart.
Sixtus Eze
Mar 24, 2026
Behind the greenhouse: how we propagate spiral aloe
Aloe polyphylla is one of the only aloes that won't reliably propagate from offsets. Here's the method we settled on after three years of failed attempts.
Tunde Akinwale
Mar 12, 2026
Lagos light: a year of measurements from our studio window
We put a lux meter on the studio sill for 12 months. The data changed how we recommend plants for east- vs west-facing rooms.
Sixtus Eze
Feb 28, 2026
What we got wrong about pothos
For two years we told customers pothos liked low light. Technically true — but we were burying the lead.
Chiamaka Eze
Feb 14, 2026
A workshop story: forty repots in one Saturday
Notes from our biggest repotting workshop yet — what worked, what we'd change, and the unexpected thing about the youngest attendee.
Adaeze Okonkwo
Jan 30, 2026
When to throw a plant away
Some plants come back. Some don't. We don't love telling people their plant is gone, but we do it — and here's how we decide.
Sixtus Eze
Jan 15, 2026
The case for plastic nursery pots
Terracotta is beautiful. It's also wrong for at least half the plants we sell. A defense of the ugly black plastic pot.
Tunde Akinwale
Dec 20, 2025
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