Poh Ling Yeow Instagram – Here’s a cheeky secret of mine for making your house plant sitch look super lush! Also some tips below for houseplant success ♥️. More household tips in my book #whaticookwhennobodyswatching . Feel free to add any tips below! 1. For the fakies, pick plants with a naturally waxy appearance like Zanzibar Gem – u really can’t tell the difference. Also it really pays to fork out a bit more than you’d expect for a good quality fakey. 2. When watering house plants make sure you water the hard to get to spots at the back and edge of the pot to encourage the root system to expand and foliage to grow evenly. 3. Remember to feed houseplants. I prefer seaweed based liquid fertilisers which does make the house smell a little “seasidey” for a day but hey 🤷🏻‍♀️. 4. If a houseplant dies, cut all the leaves away, place in bright spot in the house without direct sunlight and water gently for a few weeks. Nearly all my house plants have been revived like this. If u think death was caused by wrong light, keep moving it around the house where there’s different light, to experiment with where it might find a spot to thrive. I’d also repot and have a look at what’s going on in the soil – might be mould or root bound, sometimes bad drainage. 5. Water once a week except the very small pots twice. 6. Mealy mites need to be spotted early and treated every 2 weeks with few eucalyptus oil mixed with a teaspoon of water and a cotton bud to make sure you get amongst those delicate crevices where they like to cause a ruckus. 7. Terrariums never last. They are created to look good at time of planting so when the plants start to reach for light, the aesthetic composition changes and will always start to look straggly. At this point I’ll pull it all out and recreate a new one. For this reason I always just use hardy, plentiful succulents and in my uni days, this was ‘free’ if u took a walk around the block or hustled from friends and family 😬. @plumbooks @macmillanaus