The complete plant care library
Care for every plant you grow
Search yours for the exact light, water, and fixes it needs.
Built-in tools
Diagnose and track your plants
An interactive plant diagnostician and a personal care tracker — both free, both yours, and no account required.
Plant Doctor
Yellow leaves? Brown tips? Pick your plant and symptom and get a specific diagnosis and fix — an interactive, step-by-step problem-solver, with every answer its own page you can bookmark.
Diagnose a plant →My Plants
Add your plants for a watering rhythm tuned to the season and your zone, a health log, and weekly nudges. No account — it lives in your browser.
Build your shelf →Browse by plant
Find your plant's guide
Every guide is specific to the species — real light and water ranges, propagation that works, and the problems that plant actually gets.
Houseplants
Care guides for the indoor plants people actually grow — light, water, and troubleshooting.
Vegetable Gardening
When and how to grow vegetables, with planting dates tuned to your USDA zone.
Herbs
Growing guides for culinary herbs, indoors on the sill or out in the garden.
Succulents & Cacti
Low-water care for echeveria, jade, haworthia, cacti and the rest of the collection.
Native Plants
Plant for the pollinators where you live — a guide to going native, state by state.
Trees
Choosing, planting, and caring for the right tree — by region and hardiness zone.
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Popular plant care guides
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Aeonium spp.
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African Violet
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Agave
Agave spp.
The bold architectural rosette of the dry Americas — thick, fibrous leaves arranged in a…
Air Plant
Tillandsia spp.
The rootless wonder — an epiphytic bromeliad that drinks and feeds through silvery scales on its…
Aloe Vera
Aloe vera
A classic windowsill succulent — a rosette of thick, pointed, gel-filled leaves edged with soft…
American Beech
Fagus grandifolia
A stately, slow-growing native shade tree with smooth steel-gray bark, glossy toothed leaves, and…
Growing outdoors?
Planting tuned to your zone
Set your ZIP once and the vegetable, herb, and tree guides show planting dates for your USDA hardiness zone — here's this month to start.
This month in the garden
What to do in your garden now
Showing a typical zone 6 month — to tune it to your area.
- Water deeply in the morning rather than little-and-often, and mulch to keep roots cool.
- Harvest often — picking beans, zucchini, cucumbers, and herbs keeps them producing.
- Check leaf undersides for aphids and other pests; treat early with insecticidal soap or neem oil.
- Succession-sow quick crops like lettuce, radishes, and bush beans for a steady supply.
The weekly note
Get a little greener every week
What to plant, water, and watch for this week — one short email, free.