Notes from a Stockholm apartment jungle

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I’ve been seeing a lot of those videos and posts floating around about whipping up the perfect plant food right from our kitchen scraps. Everything from banana peels to onion skins and coffee grounds is being touted as the best kept secret in plant nutrition. And I’ll be honest,

AI is popping up everywhere these days, isn’t it? From our phones to our fridges, and now… in our plant life and addiction! Meet BotanBot, your new go-to for all things green. Forget the “Introvert, but ready to talk plants” T-shirt; with BotanBot, you can dive deep into plant ta

Ever looked at your bathroom and thought, “Could I add some green in here?” Well, you’re in the right place! If you’ve been scrolling through social media wondering which plants would love your bathroom, I’ve got some cool ideas for you. Setting Up Your Green Corner Starting with

Alocasias, with their stunning foliage and tropical allure, they have captivated plant enthusiasts around the world. But let’s admit it, they can be a bit mysterious when it comes to their care requirements. Many plant lovers have struggled to keep their Alocasias healthy and thr

Hey there, green thumbs! Are your fingers green enough? Or are you one of the people posting questions like “Why are my plants not doing well?” or “What am I doing wrong?” Keep reading and you’ll find out not only what’s wrong with those questions, but also what you can do to ask

The winter is coming! Here in Stockholm, Sweden, on our Alaskan altitude it’s going to be long and dark as every winter here. However, this winter looks like we are going to deal with unusually high electricity prices. What does it mean for us, crazy tropical plants growers? Do w

What is the first house plant you remember from your childhood? Mine is Hoya. The plant grown all over our living room’s window looked huge to little me. It was quite regularly in bloom and I loved to climb on the window sill and lick the sweet drops of nectar from the mesmerizin

Have you ever played with a thought of quitting your 8-to-5 day job and moving to tropics? You feel fed up sometimes with winter, snow, cold and darkness during a considerable part of the year? Half a year here in Stockholm, Sweden actually…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whenever I travel to a new place I always try to visit local botanical garden and to do a blog post about it. So far I’ve been only taking photos and sharing my impressions in written. From now on I’m really excited to do even Virtual Reality, 3

Pineapple is probably the optimal exotic fruit anyone can grow indoors anywhere. Easy to plant, easy to grow and will produce a juicy, sweet pineapple within about 3 years.

Jungles is another word for “many tropical plants in one place” so urban jungle is the right description of our apartment. But how many are many in my case? I didn’t know the exact answer until now.

Whenever you are using organically rich soil for potting or repotting, in most cases just a few days later you will see myriads of small flies crawling in your pots and flying around. Those are fungus gnuts and are very easy way to avoid.

Our last day of Costa Rica trip definitely wasn’t a lazy one. We woke up early to meet our new local friend Erick Matamoros – a great freelancing photographer and kindly our guide for a car trip to Irazú volcano, followed by a visit to the Lankester Botanical Garden and then a di

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Follow me on a short 8min video stroll through our home-grown jungles, our tropics at home on a couple of square meters. This is my entire, well almost, “collection” of tropical plants I grow indoors in our flat in Stockholm, Sweden. With plant

Having a stopover in the third busiest airport in France, Nice Côte d’Azur Airport? Or spending your vacation on French Riviera? Plan a couple of hours before or between your flights to visit Parc Phoenix.

When in Copenhagen, Denmark, you can easily enhance your city stroll with a quick trip to a tropical rain forest. You will find it in The Palm House in Botanical Garden of Copenhagen University.

Taking time-lapse of your home plants is a way of bringing their hasteless time scale into our own, human one. We know they are moving. We notice them growing and changing. By taking photos with time intervals, we can make it as clear as seeing our own movements.

4-stars hotel with 41.000 sqm (10 acres) of sustainable tropical garden to explore in San José, Costa Rica. More than 1000 tropical plant species.

Just a short update on what’s up here in our Swedish tropics in the middle of the winter. It has been a month since we returned from a truly amazing trip to wonderful Costa Rica. Sure thing I couldn’t restrain myself (and had no intention to) from collecting some seeds.

LED lamp with regular E27 lamp holder. On the eBay page use drop-downs to select: style: Non-Dimmable color: Cool White size: PAR38-36W-60 Degree Sold by external vendor on eBay. Ships from China (not Sweden).

Knowing where and when to go in Costa Rica can make all the difference to your vacation there. Wet, or as they call it green and dry seasons are an obvious consideration for a traveller to this Central American country. However, if you think that this is all you need to know, you

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Caladiums as house plants, when growing indoors in pots are a stunning addition to any room’s design and feeling. So this is an enigma to me how is it still almost unknown not only to an average home grower, but even to professional home plants’

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sooner or later you might run into problems and this last chapter in the series I hope will help you to solve most of them. Plumeria problems anyway.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Do you need green fingers for flowering Plumeria indoors? Well, everyone can have green fingers. The secret is in understanding your plants’ needs and giving them what they want. There are only two reasons why your potted friends are not thrivi

If I did my job right in the previous posts in this series, and you are now eager to start growing your own Plumeria, this wonderful piece of tropics, in your home, then you have to make a decision: do you want sprout it from seeds or to plant a cutting. Certainly you can even pu

Plumeria is described as a small 6-25 ft (1,5-8 m) tree. Comparing to many other trees it is indeed can be considered small. However if we are talking about growing them indoors it is much larger than your average house plant. Luckily it has an ability, which will help us to fit

How to grow Plumeria or Frangipani, the essence of tropics, as your home plant indoors. Potted or in container. Introduction. Part 1 of 5.

If it would be up to me to give Fittonia a common name, I would call it Dollar-bill plant. Their leaves’ surface looks endurable rough and sophisticated at the same time, while the slightly raised veins seems to be stamped on the leaves with almost glowing paint. Somehow it is gi

A common knowledge is that New York has something for everyone. If your something is like mine, tropical plants, you will find them in abundance in Enid A. Haupt Conservatory in Bronx, New York Botanical Garden.

A short video update, where besides bragging about my current blooms you can also get some advises on how to deal with different growing habits depending on Plumeria cultivar (long branched vs compact) indoors: pruning, flowering, branching.

Not even many Stockholmers know about this great tropical destination in their vicinity. Edvard Anderson Conservatory is situated a bit outside of people’s daily routes, but it is still easily reachable by subway (station Universitet). From spring to fall, in good weather, one ca

I’m both a plants’ freak (according to my colleagues) and a gadget geek according to myself. So I always happy to find some new fancy app I can download to my iPhone. Some of them get opened just a few times after install and won’t survive my next urge to clean up the screen. Oth

A quick indoor gardening project for tonight to get some healthy dirt germs. Time to repot my 2 years old seedling of foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcate), a souvenir from last Thailand trip.

Whenever I visit a bigger city, I try to go to their botanical garden with a green house. Yea, I’m that damaged. If it’s in tropics, then the whole garden is my play ground. This time when in Riga I checked out the Palm House in the botanical garden of University of Latvia.

Tropical plants are all about shape, size and color manifested in a way we seldom see in more modest temperate climate plants. One way to stand out among all lush greenery of tropical vegetation is to get yourself brightly colored foliage. Some plants are naturally good at it; ot

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Think about a dream holiday in tropics. Got it? I bet that the picture in your mind right now includes palm trees somewhere – boarding a white sand beach or around a luxurious pool. They are there. Tall and slender, crowned by majestic greenery