Turning Your Indoor Jungle from Tragic to Magic: Chive Tips for Plant Perfection
Welcome to Chive Blogs, where every houseplant gets a chance to thrive—and so do you. Our tips on houseplants, pots, and decor will save your indoor jungle from disaster. From fending off a fern-cicle to avoiding the silent treatment from succulents, we’ve got you covered. Get ready for advice that’s as fresh as morning dew, ensuring your indoor garden is the envy of your office and maybe even your snooty neighbor.
Nobody grows one dahlia. This is what nobody tells you.
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.
Will A Rusty Pot Kill a Plant?
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.
How to measure a plant pot
Plant pot sizes are measured by diameter — rim to rim. Chive has made ceramic pots in every size and form since 2004 — 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.





