Turning Your Indoor Jungle from Tragic to Magic: Chive Tips for Plant Perfection

One doesn't expect to find enlightenment while standing in line at the airport convenience store, yet there it was—nestled between the neck pillows and travel-sized toothpaste. A woman clutching a...

So, you've decided that your shoebox-sized Toronto condo needs a touch of the Amazon rainforest, and you've set your sights on the illustrious rubber plant (Ficus elastica). Congratulations! You're about...

Objects that might survive her passive-aggressive spring cleaning. The ritual dinner where Mom pretends not to notice her child checking the time beneath the table. Ballet tickets purchased with the...

The neighbors across the hall own something resembling a botanical garden that seems to thrive despite the complete absence of natural light in their apartment. Meanwhile, plants brought into some...

Zinnia seeds germinate in 7 days and bloom all summer long. You plant one packet thinking "a little color." By August, the zinnias have taken over. Learn the one rule that keeps them blooming — and why you should plant twice as many as you think you need.

The glorious world of flower vases! Because nothing says "I have my life together" quite like a carefully chosen vessel for your soon-to-be-wilting flora. Gather 'round, fellow aesthetes and wannabe...

Ceramic pots for plants outperform plastic on drainage, weight, and longevity — when they have a drainage hole. Chive has spent 25 years getting that detail right, and the pots show it.

How to grow dahlias from seed: start indoors 6–8 weeks before last frost, transplant after frost, and expect first blooms in late summer. Nobody warns you that one bloom is all it takes — here is everything you need to know.

Rusty metal planters do not harm ornamental plants — rust is iron oxide, and at decorative planter scale, it does not leach into soil at meaningful levels. In all our years designing pots, exactly one of them has been metal. That one changed everything we thought we knew about soil temperature.

Plant pot sizes are measured by diameter — rim to rim. Chive has made ceramic pots in every size and form for over 25 years — the Minute, the Virago, and the Joe cover almost every plant sold in North America. The wrong size pot is a completely avoidable tragedy and yet here we all are.

Ah, flowers. Those colorful, fragrant little attention-seekers of the plant world. You might think they're just nature's way of showing off, but apparently, they're important for many reasons. Who knew?...

Oh, hello there, aspiring plant parent! So you've decided to bring some green into your life, huh? How quaint. But before you go shoving that poor, unsuspecting ficus into the...