# plant parent guide

# using the plant parent guide

If you're new to plant care, start with the getting started guide.

Major topics are arranged along the sidebar, covering most aspects of indoor plat care.

# about the guide

The plant parent guide is a repository of plant care notes focused on indoor plants. This guide grew out of an obsession turned pile of notes. The aim of this guide is to give beginner indoor gardeners a resource to feel out their space, and more experienced plant parents a searchable reference to keep their gardens healthy. This guide is by no means written from the the viewpoint of an expert. It's mostly based on a whole lot of googling, but it is consolidated in one place and hopefully in a intuitively organized format. Keeping plants is easy to start but hard to give up.

With more people are moving into cities, and with less and less ground space per person, access to nature will be increasingly exclusive. Plants are relatively affordable and require minimal tools to get started. With enough patience, cuttings can become monstrous beauties. Plants become living, breathing, members of your space. There is a long history of bringing plants into ever more human centric space, where our desire for nature and fruit forced novel ways of growing in pots and containers. The invention of glass more than anything else made planting indoors more than just possible. Building technology, along with human ingenuity, continue to shape the myriad of man made conditions under which plants thrive.

Indoor gardening provides a ton of benefits, best of which is that plants are much more docile than pet animals or children. Plants will not awaken you with loud noises at ungodly hours nor will you find plants defecating on your fresh swept floors. Plants tell us a lot about the environment we live in. They give visual indicators when the environment is too wet or too dry, too sunny or too dark, and are good reminders to humans to make our space more comfortable.