Showerthought: I used to just buy plants because they looked nice

I mean, a few years back, I'd walk into a garden center and grab whatever caught my eye, no questions asked. I killed a lot of plants that way, honestly. The big change came maybe two summers ago when I got a fiddle leaf fig from a place in Portland. It dropped all its leaves in a month. That made me actually look up what it needed, like light and humidity. Now, before I bring anything home, I check if it'll work in my space. I spend more time reading about care than I do picking the plant itself. It's a bit slower, but my stuff actually lives now. Does anyone else feel like they went from just collecting to actually trying to understand what they're growing?

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hayes.tara1mo ago

What made you finally decide to look up care info after that fig lost all its leaves?

margaret_flores171mo ago

Actually, it was my second fiddle leaf fig that started to look sad, @hayes.tara. That's when I knew I had to figure out what I was doing wrong.