A Tour of My Best And Worst Houseplants 

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Apart from many nice plants, I also love the decoration of your house! How you arrange pot colors, posters. So lovely. Thanks for sharing ☺️

Man, maybe it's your camera but your house is so bright and happy looking. Love it!

The Birkin loves to be ignored and can easily withstand going dry for a short period. I’ve even gone through a period when I hated this plant and wanted it to die and it didn’t. So now I kind of like it more.

I love how you call it like it is… I call things ugly all the time but I do love them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Your plants might be naughty but they are beautiful and you are AWESOME! You crack me up😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I always look forward to your wonderful videos!!!!!

My pilea was stretching so much, it was about 30cm high but only had four leaves on the top, the bottom leaves were all gone 😂 I considered to do the big chop but couldn't really commit since it was my first plant ever and I've sent babies of hers to friends all around the world! A few weeks ago, my bedroom mirror fell over and fell into my plants. Miraculously, the only plant damaged was the pilea - the tip was cut straight off, almost as if the plant gods had sent me a message 😂 I put it in a jar with water, maybe it starts to root

Your lipstick plant is gorgeous. You’ve convinced me that I need one too. Loved the tour!

I don't have much trouble with my dieffenbachia, unless I overwater, BUT they are fabulous when grown exclusively in water. I use them in aquariums, and they grow extremely well in that setting. Take cuttings from your fussy adults, plop them into a jar of water, and just leave them there. I've got them growing in water jars as well as my aquariums. Mine get a LOT of light. I found when they don't get enough light, they don't grow well, get scraggly, and the lower leaves fall off when new leaves are produced.

Would you consider making a get-to-know-you video in which you’d tell us a bit about yourself, your job, how you began on the plant-parenting path? You’ve built quite a community here, and I don’t even know your name, for God’s sakes 😅

I love all the natural light you have in your home, especially near your dining room table. I just moved into an apt that is amazing but not nearly enough light for the babies 😂

one of my favorite plants in my collection is Mimosa Pudica, it has small green leaves that scare you when you touch them and the flowers are gorgeous

I also love my peperomia raindrop. Easy plant, looks great, propagates super easy.

You'r house plants collection is absolutelly amazing. I can't still belive how you are able to take care of such enormous amout of your plants. For me, you are hero. Latelly I started having house plants and you'r chanel helped me a LOT. I think that I can say that you are my favourite plant care youtuber. The main difference betwen you and the other youtubers is that you are so profesional, strict and tasteful.

I love the pothos growing along the wall ❤ Such easy unproblematic plants! No drama 😂

I like that Heros and Villians!!!! Cool!!! Tradescantia Tricolor is an absolute villian for me! I have had it at least 3 times over the years and it always starts out beautiful! Needless to say I have it no more! Plus the way you were holding the Tricolor was like if it doesn't act right you are throwing it out!!!!

When you grabbed the Tradescantia tricolour and it was crispy I laughed! It's just like mine! Beautiful... annoying and crispy. Great plants!

So happy to see your lovely jade! I love them too, not many ppl I know understand how beautiful they are! 💚🙌🏼

Hello Mr Sheffield your plant collection has grown so much and your Monstera Deliciosa is spectacular. I like your lipstick 💄 plant and the orchids which are next on my list to buy.

This was enjoyable to watch. You have a nice home and your plants are beautiful. I'm so glad to find out that I am not the only one that had problems trying to grow a diffenbacia. I had one a couple months ago - had to keep cutting yellow leaves off so often that I decided to repot the thing. It croaked within the next 24 hours. No more diffenbacias for me! 😂

Beautiful collection. Thanks for the tour. It's amazing how some plants just flourish 🌱 for some people and some don't. Tradescantia just love my house and do great but my lipstick plant 💄 puckered up 💋 one day and kissed life goodbye. 😂

About the Dieffenbachia, my Mars has been doing great for at least 2 years now.. I have it in a spot 2 meters from the nearest window (3,5 meters from my south facing windows), it has medium indirect light all day. It stands on a bar, so it's well clear from any cold drought when I have a window open. I water it once a week, never soak the whole pot doing so. I guess that accidentally was what it loves, it's a meter high and 2 weeks ago I spotted the first small brown tip on 1 leaf which I cut off. No new browning so far on that leaf. Hopefully there is something in here that helps :)

The Purple Heart ( tradescanthia purple pallida )and the tricolor ( wandering Jew. That’s what we call them in The USA). They love full sun and plenty of water. Prune back and push the cuttings back in the dirt. The Calathea Elgergrass plants, try using chlorine free water or rain water The leaves always turn brown with all the chemicals in water. The Peperomia plants like the soil to be a little moist. I love all of my plants and can’t wait to buy more. Beautiful collection of plants !

Absolutely love the plant nook you have by the window with lots of natural light, that's just art on its own. 🥰 I also love marble queen pothos and brazil plant a lot, all the leaves look like little watercolor paintings to me. I might have found out the reason why my adansonii wasn't happy, it was root bound! I might cut it back and start it over with a lesson learned.

What a fun video. I really enjoy checking out your collection and getting some updates.

So many plants I want to try now. Especially want a calathea elgergrass like yours. I'll have to watch your video repeatedly to research many of your favorites, and a few of your current villains, who's leaves look irresistible. Fantastic collection.

Tradescantias .. When the tip leaf is large enough to get a grip on. Pull it out! New growth will starting coming out a long the stem above it. I make a game of it. Walk by, pull 10! I do it at different lengths and my plant doesn't look chopped. I took pictures but I can't figure out how to add them. Sorry. I also. Add pieces in the top. Sprinkle lightly with soil to bush up the center growth. That's how I get more from my Tradescantias!!! Hey!!! 63 plant lady Abilene,Tx!!! I just rescued a teddy bear after watching your video about how easy a plant they are! Giving it a try!!! Thanks for all the great videos!!!!

Hang the scandens in a sunny spot. Don't water them until they're completely dry and then wait a week. They act like a succulent I have found. But yes they like a sunny window! ❤

This video made me laugh so much. Lol. I love the candor with which you talk about the heroes and villains! I think we all have favorites and pains in the butt plants. Lol

I'm definitely getting a lipstick plant for myself. Great tour, close up images of the plants would make it even better!

Wow, dude! what a great tour. Fantastic videos since I subscribed. Love the way your plants are arranged in your home. I think the grow lights are a great investment for plants that are in odd spots. Your videos means there's hope for me too. My kid thinks I'm crazy for buying so many, especially as quite a few have died on me but the experience, has greatly improved how i look after them. Cant wait for your next video.

I love the way you style the pothos with the hooks. I love the variegation on your tigress plant.I also bought my fiddle leaf fiddle and jade plant from there. I am experimenting with 2 begonias in water and a diffenbachia.

Crazy Plant Guy recommends a 1/4 turn every other day for Chinese Money Plants and so far that's keeping mine relatively symmetrical

Dieffenbachias are my villains too. Few weeks back I complained about them and the same day I found that the one that was really struggling through the winter was in bloom. Few days later as the first blossom started to close off I noticed that another one is opening!!! Apparently it's very rare for them to bloom indoors and mine had two flowers at the same time. It still does not look great. Long naked stem with bidncrown of leaves on top. And two flowers. Although they don't really look like flowers...

My brown tips stopped when I put a Boogie Blue (USA) hydroponics filter on my bathroom faucet. It was well worth the hassle and to not be able to use the bathroom faucet as much.

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing your collection! Thanks for the look!

Love your videos. Your voice is very calming and I enjoy listening :) thank you!

I Was Making A Moss Pole For My Golden Pothos Plants For The First Time. As Recommended I Use No Tap Water And The Plants Are Shiner And More "Lush" Than Ever. Anyway I Went Over To Where I Placed A Pepperomia Santorini Leaf Onto A Slice Of A Loofa Sponge and In Some Good Water And Just Noticed 5-6 Hairlike Roots. It Took Over A Month But When You Recommended Moving It Closer To The Light, It Showed Roots Within 2 Weeks Of Being About 4-5 Inches Away From the Light Source. Now I Feel Positive That I Can Do This Again and Again. Thank You.

I think your plants in general are looking good. I use to have alot more plants and there are always some that behave badly. Have a blessed day.

Love this video. Thank you for saying how to care, where to place them. I love tradescantia and calathea bc I plan to plant them in window boxes w/o direct sunlight. I pray they will be alright. I love plants w small leaves.

I don't own a ficus, but my own "ugly ficus turned beautiful ficus" plant was a Ginny plant. I thought it was kind of gangly and funky looking when I first saw it, but every time I returned to my friend's plant store I liked it more and more. Now it's my favorite plant haha

The philodendron Brasil is beautifully potted! The way it makes that spiralling cone. My mom gifted me one of those trellises, the monstera one for my birthday and my swiss cheese plant is in love so thanks for showing those! Love them.

Your home is blessed with all those green companions and tons of light🌹🌳🌷🌼🌻🌸🌵 Thank you so much for all the wonderful video's. Found your page a few days ago when I bought a Delicious Monster. I drove back to my local nursery to make sure the variety I bought was the large one! Then by accident I bought more plants. I've been glued ever since! Will definitely try to put my peace lily in a vase with water and stones.

Tradescantia is a challenge as it need lot of pruning otherwise it looks ugly. Must say, it survive anywhere and in sunlight, you will get small lovely flowers

I am with you. I love my Birken even though everyone has it on their hate list. It makes me incredibly happy when I have a half chocolate leaf amidst the beautiful striped leaves.

I LOVE my Birkin. I have two of them I bought the second because it was reverting in one center section back to mother plant congo. It looks so cool to have a center congoin dark burgundy red with the pretty green leaves around it. It was marked way down. I could not resist buying it. I just love all your colors you have in your house ad on the walls too. Everything goes so well together.

All of my Diffenbachias are doing really well about a foot away from my northern windows (Sydney, Australia). My Tropic Marianne is in an aroid/worm castings mix and I let it dry out ALMOST completely and it keeps giving me new growth. The other 2 (Amy and Memoria Corsii) I recently transferred to LECA and have not skipped a beat. They too are pushing out new growth....and it's autumn here now. So one thing for sure is that they need HEAPS (lots) of bright indirect light and to almost dry out if in soil. AND they need to be fertilised. I use GT Foliage Focus (an Aussie product) which I believe may be available now over there (or the US). All the best with yours 😀

I had fungus gnats. I put a clove of garlic in all my plants. You will grow garlic which you can pull out but you won’t have any flys.

Love this video Sheff!🥰 The lighting is wonderful, colors are vibrant and bright. Cut the Cupid -Peperomia and start over. I have 3 huge hanging baskets by a south facing window. She’s bigger than my pothos. Good luck 👍

what a lovely collection you have! that tradescantia at the end of the video looks more like a sillamontana 'brown hill' to me. i think she needs even more direct light. also the pallida. both my sillamontana and my pallida like to get very dry between the waterings.

❤❤very beautiful I like it Takeshi care for them ❤❤

Hello, you have a really good channel and I always enjoy it. I wouldn't even bother with the peperomia scandens. Why deal with plants that regardless of good care still fail. When this happens to me off to the trash. Plants that don't do well for me ruin the appearance of my healthy plants. And besides life is stressful enough! Lol

Stunning collection and variety!

I love how your plants 🪴 are your friends. My plants 🌱 are my friends, too🥰😻

I killed the first cane begonia I had, but I took a chance getting a new one last spring and I actually managed to keep that one alive over winter and it became one of my favorites! I found the trick is they really react well to keiki paste to encourage branching, and not let them dry out too much. They still get the occasional crispy leaves, but it grows so fast it doesn’t bother me too much these days.

Who doesn’t like the philodendron birkin? It’s a lovely plant, picked one up a few weeks back.

I adore your videos. I am so impressed how full and lovely your begonias look.

I love your bright, sunny, cheerful room with all the plants. ❤ It’s just so charming and happy making.😊🌿🍀🍃🌾🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴

The Aglaonema Tigress is my favorite of all of my plants. I have 3 of them! You can't go wrong with an aggie! You have a really nice plant decorated home! Beautifullly done!

I have a rice plant. This summer I went on holiday, it dried up and died without watering. But the corpse had grains on it! I propagated it from the grains and now I have its children. 😮

Great looking favorite houseplant 🎉

Hey Richard, new follower from Malaysia here. I remember seeing that you had an alocasia black ninja/velvet in a couple of your previous videos. Wondering if you'd be doing a video on them soon? I thought that the dieffenbachia was easy to care for, it's growing all over my apartment's compound with shades from the overhead trees and only being watered by rain water. But ofcourse we're on the equator. Love watching your videos! Cheers!

The melanochrysum is also a clear villain for me. It hasn't adapted well to my house, I might give up on it soon. Same with my summer style dieffenbachia, I love it so much and really want it to live, but it doesn't seem to want to. Really nice to take a look at your collection, your heroes and your drama queens!

Such pretty plants

This video made my day, thanks a milion ✌️ I've recently found my Birkin THRIVING (!) in a pot the size of a glass, with one long root sticking out of the bottom, in rock -solid dry soil: what a plant !!! Must confess I' be been waiting the whole video long for you to mention an Alocasia: mine has NEVER gone beyond having two sad leaves 😞

Love you videos they're very helpful. I have a, fair few plants but not as many as you yet. I find that you get to learn which plants you can care for and which ones that are a fail. I need to move the radiator in the lounge so I can get some shelving on there. Hubby's going to love me 😅

I have an alocasia frydek that is probably about 6 years old now, and it has grown a trunk like your Chinese money plant, which I rather like, because it's unusual. It's about three and a half or four feet tall now (a bit over a meter), and flowers several times a year for me. I have one of its babies in a pot next to it, which has spread in to several small plants in the pot with an overall bushy appearance. Kinda neat how the same plant can end up looking so differently due to its circumstances.

Love your channel thank you for sharing your experience and advice I am a plant lover from Louisiana

I love it when you do a plant tour! Now I must go shopping for a lipstick plant Lol! I love my birkin too and my elgergrass (which i dusted yesterday with a paint brush). I have a never never plant (ctenanthe) its similar to elgergrass, also a favorite of mine 😊 ....how is your mandarin spider plant?

When I was young, we (and others around us) had what we called Chinese money plants. I'm not sure... I think they weren't the same as what you have. There was a time in their life cycles when you could peel away outer layers of leaves (or leave to get that way on its own). My mom had a good-sized one that she eventually planted in the back yard under a leafy tree. It thrived there , in Southern NJ, USA, not far from the Pine Barrens. I don't remember what they looked like green. We had some dried branches in the leaves " papery " stage, and also that one living plant.

Those trellises look great, very natural but original looking.

Is that a begonia inca flame on the left? Looks stunning! I only have one atm and I found that mine (begonia arctic breeze) absolutely loved the winter time (I live in Portugal). Kept pushing out new growth and just looks beautiful now that spring has come. Thank you so much for this great video!

Ive loved watching your devils ivy grow over time in your videos :3

Maybe moss poles would help some of the trouble plants. I am learning to do this for those climbers.

I think of something for your Monstera! I saw someone using the same thing everyone use for their moss pole but no moss in it, she use it only for the support of the plant! I will give it a go for sure! I don't like Moss pole maintenance! Or like Lee do, using a branch from a tree outside!

I’ve seen you mention the syngonium red arrow as a struggle plant a few times. I have found mine to be happiest with a bit more moisture and less light. Mine is in a north window, and I repotted it into an aroid mix in a clear glass container with no drainage-you can see exactly how much moisture is in it when you water, so it’s easy to pour some out if you water too much, and it doesn’t get overly dry without you being able to see it. I’ve been doing this with plants for over a decade, and it works very well. I’ve only had the red arrow for maybe 9 months, so I can’t claim to be an expert, but it’s doing well for me. And if you don’t like the growth pattern of your money plant, you could snip off the top half and root it so that you don’t have the long stem. I think they stay more compact the more light and humidity they get.

Whhoooppppeee. Got home from tesco a mo ago. My moisture meter has arrived. Yaaaay xxxx

I got the same problem with my peperomias, so I decided not to buy them anymore (at least for now). I gave a peperomia obtusifolia variegated to my mum as a gift one year ago (I think I spotted one in your video), and that's thriving

I love peace lilies, phalaenopsis orchids, begonia rexes, and bonsai trees. :D The Begonia Rexes are really really sensitive to over-watering. Water it once when it's not dry yet, and they just become mush! Literally. XD I've gotten better at them over the years, and one thing they really love is to sit outdoors, in full sunlight, or partial sunlight! They need more water then too, so less risk of overwatering them. Very colourful and pretty leaves, and cute little pink flowers too. :) (Also, they don't smell bad like the "normal" begonias do). They don't like the dark and dry cold air of winter, no. Not at all. Also, they need to be propagated about once every three years. They're not very long-lived plants.

Thank you for a fun video. Your collection is impressive and lovely.

You have an enormous amount of light with all that glass. Very happy plants! I'm new to indoor plants but learning, thanks to your help. I just put in an online order for 6 new plants. After watching another one of your videos I made a couple of changes based on your advise before submitting my order. I also purchased a Dieffenbachia and the bottom leaves are turning yellow. Is this from overwatering like you suggested is happening with yours? Cheers from the U.S. state of Florida

Love your videos! Definitely some of the best plant info out there. I have a bromeliad plant I sometimes struggle with. I'm always looking for tips on that😅

oh I love this video - please show us all of your plants :) favorite child at the moment: My tradescantia zebrina is flourishing (and even flowering) my villains: I also have the problem with the dieffenbachia and the brown spots on the leaves - very annoying; my sansevieria is not doing anything - not growing, not dying, just existing, same with the areca - just getting some browning on the top of the leaves and not growing...

Video ended abruptly. This is what I call surprise ending😅 My hero is tree philodendron. Selloum or something like that. Has 0 problems and the more I see it, the more I like it. My villain is Dieffenbachia. It may do okey and than all of a sudden start to decline. It would be nice if it was easy plant but it seems like waste of money. I don't want to try one more time.

Thanks for sharing 😊!

Me loving all the trellises in this video.. on my way to Amazon to just check if any cute ones pop up

My Birkin got me into plants, Idk why they get such a bad wrap mines been growing like a champ and I definitely overwater it however mine gets tons of sun.

I like my birkin too. Other plants I've bought have died back and uf they come back, they come back, if they don't then less may have been learned. Sadly, due to COVID, all my orchids - all seventy of them in the greenhouse have died. £30/day just wasn't doable during winter. Having over 120 indoor plants adding the orchids coming indoors wasn't an option but I did get a few sold.

Since I saw your video about jademine is became my favourite too! I now want all the different ones! I found one who is called "Hobbit" or in french "ogre ears" since it looks like Shrek's ears 😅 This one is so fun! I can't wait to see it grow! I'm really happy you give a go to orchids and you enjoyed it! 😍

Your plant collection is gorgeous 😍 your lipstick plant looks beautiful but I just can’t get on with the flowers 😂

Love the burkin. Next time I see one for a good price ill scoop one up

I like how you put up with them villans.

Fun video! I enjoyed it

I cannot grow begonia lol. I'm in NZ. I have had FOUR! and even in summer, as soon as i pot them up, it's over rover 🤦‍♀️ I also cannot grow alocasia and colocasia no matter how much light, humidity or food I give them lol

Hi the Peperomia Scandens needs more light, out it on the shelf in front of your window.

I like the trellis with the Brazil plant

Very nice. I notice you use some clay pots. I am undecided whether to keep to clay pots or use plastic. I grow pelargoniums (geraniums) which don't like being over watered, so I think clay is good for quicker drainage, plus they do look great. Nice to see your indoor plant collection. 🌿

I think your Chinese Money Plant is stunning! Too critical, ha!

I might have got the steal of the century. Was labeled a burgandy prince. I think it's a black cardinal.

Oops! I believe there was a small freudian slip as you claimed the pilea peperomoides was your least favorite plant then proceeded to almost show it to the floor...🧐😂...on another note i agree the peperomia polybotra is much nicer looking (and easier to care for). loved the video, thank you

Went through my plants last week, weeding out the ones not bringing joy(only three!). My Chinese money plant was one of them. Might now search out the peperomia raindrop to replace it. Picked up a curly lipstick plant last fall from my nursery discount area, looks like it dried out then got overwatered. Really limp with soil that dripped. It looks great now, love the red flowers. Do you keep any African violets?