How to Keep Your Houseplants Alive After Covid
You, along with everyone else, bought plants this year. Now comes the hard part.
Illustration: Loni Harris
As lockdowns ease, and people begin to dip their toes back into normal life, the Covid-era houseplant bloom risks wilting into a pile of brown leaves.
“One of the reasons people got interested in house plants over Covid is that they were suddenly home all the time, looking for routines and rituals,” says Emily L. Hay Hinsdale, the author of the forthcoming book Never Put a Cactus in the Bathroom (Tiller Press, $18).