Think Like a Grower: What Your Plant Leaves are Trying to Tell You
Plants can’t speak but they do have the capacity to reveal clues about distress and discomfort they are feeling through their leaves. Plants are trying to tell you something through the dots, marks, colour and texture of their leaves. Plants are hoping you pick up on some tell-tale signs so you might be able to fix their woes. Learning to read a plants cry for help is one of the skills that turns a beginner into a confident grower. Think like a Grower and look beyond the problem itself and ask yourself why is the plant behaving in this way? Is it stressed, too wet, too dry or is something attacking it? Plants are talking all the time through their leaves, you just need to know what they are trying to say. Why Leaves Tell a Story Plants cannot tell us the problems they are facing or if theres something bothering them by picking up a phone or sending a message saying “I’m thirsty.” However they do communicate to us through changes in their leaves and growing ...