Light & Placement
Light is the one thing you truly cannot fake for a plant. Reading your windows, decoding 'bright indirect light', and matching plants to the room they will actually live in.
Light & Placement
Do Grow Lights Actually Work? A No-Hype Guide
Yes. Grow lights work for houseplants because a plant photosynthesizes from any light of the right spectrum and intensity, sunlight or LED alike.
Light & Placement
How Much Light Does Your Plant Actually Need?
Most houseplants need bright, indirect light: a spot near a window bright enough to read by all day, where a hand casts a soft-edged shadow but the sun's.
Light & Placement
North, South, East, West: Reading a Window Like a Plant
There's no single best window — it depends on the plant.
Light & Placement
Signs Your Plant Wants More (or Less) Light
A plant that needs more light stretches toward the window with long, thin stems and widening gaps between leaves (leggy growth), pushes out smaller, paler.
Growing in this section
- Light meters: worth it?
- Rotating plants for even growth
- Acclimating a plant to a new spot