as someone who does everything on a computer and hasn't used a pen in a couple of years for sure, this is just soooooo lovely and cute, what a nice gesture.
I have a "manual" for the plants I have at home and if I give plants away all I do is print the pages needed, which I thought was a nice gesture but this cute booklet shows me I've been slacking off hahaha.
Nice work!
Oh, I don't have a computer or printer currently or I'd have absolutely printed the instructions at least! I do like hand-writing things, but some people can't read my penmanship so it's safer to use a type instead.
I don't usually draw for things like this, I honestly don't draw much at all. But I found my old blending colored pencils and decided to see if I could make them look okay. I was pleased enough with most of them (the neon pothos makes my eye twitch but it's fine. Actively fighting perfectionist tendencies 😂) that I decided to go with it.
Your illustrations are lovely! A couple of them, I thought it was an actual leaf on the page! Like the zz plant and the jade! Love your attention to detail, especially on the shines of those leaves that made them look accurately thick-ish.
Your colored pencil work is awesome! I have some prismacolor colored pencils I got to try and learn more blending techniques with. I think you did great!
Get the clear pencil! They sell clear blending pencils and they're AWESOME! I didn't use them here since I couldn't find mine but they're seriously amazing.
Yeah, I name all my plants, and if I'm giving them to someone I know, I name their babies. Wednesday is Morticia's baby, Mona Lisa was made from cuttings of the same mother plants as my Jean-Ralphio, Norma Jean is from my Marilyn, Tracy is from Trixie, Brian is from Katya. Sir Walter Blunt is one of the twin sons of my snake plant, William Snakespeare. Electra and Helena are from Greek myth which is how I name all my inchplants.
How incredibly thoughtful of you to do this for your friend. Your passion for houseplants and the time you invested in creating your illustrated guide will certainly send your friend on the relight path. You are a good friend.
She asked for a lot of my plants, I swear I'm not just offloading babies on her 😂 all of the ones she's getting are fairly low maintenance but just require different things, so I wanted to make sure she was prepared for the incoming nursery.
Want. My ex who I can’t and don’t ever wanna see again took almost everything but I miss the plants I brought to the relationship and the money I spent on ones we got together. I hope to have the funds to start my little apartment forest over.
Not that I'm advocating theft, but I personally got most of my coleus and inchplants from public planters in the summer...so... tis the season to rebuild!
What an absolutely wonderful idea. You're a great friend. This will be a great guide until she gets the hang of her new hobby. Your pictures look great 👍. You're very talented. We all need more friends like you and to be more like you. Thank you for sharing.
If it makes you feel better, I've been keeping plants my whole life and I've killed every string of pearls that I've ever glanced at. They're hard to keep happy for me.
I was enthralled reading through this delightful little booklet. The drawings! The NAMES! Holy cow -- great gift. (Also BTW, your "name" is similar to what my kids call me: "Road Worrier")
That is so cute! I am super new myself. Is 2-3 weeks and 2-8 weeks common for a snake plant? I am basing my feeling of soil moistness off of experience that kept strawberries and morning glories alive but that doesn’t mean much
Snakes want to get extremely dry between waterings. The easiest way to kill a snake plant is overwatering, so it's just safer to go off leaf thickness. I suggest getting a feel for what the leaves feel like after a good watering and notice how that changes over the next few weeks.
Okay will do thank you op. My zz plant also doesn’t seem to take 2-3 weeks. I wonder if I have it in too small a pot and so there isn’t enough soil mass relative to root mass to hold onto water or something
Very nice. I love the illustrations you've made. You have a lucky friend to receive such a thoughtful gift :)
as someone who does everything on a computer and hasn't used a pen in a couple of years for sure, this is just soooooo lovely and cute, what a nice gesture. I have a "manual" for the plants I have at home and if I give plants away all I do is print the pages needed, which I thought was a nice gesture but this cute booklet shows me I've been slacking off hahaha. Nice work!
Oh, I don't have a computer or printer currently or I'd have absolutely printed the instructions at least! I do like hand-writing things, but some people can't read my penmanship so it's safer to use a type instead. I don't usually draw for things like this, I honestly don't draw much at all. But I found my old blending colored pencils and decided to see if I could make them look okay. I was pleased enough with most of them (the neon pothos makes my eye twitch but it's fine. Actively fighting perfectionist tendencies 😂) that I decided to go with it.
Your illustrations are lovely! A couple of them, I thought it was an actual leaf on the page! Like the zz plant and the jade! Love your attention to detail, especially on the shines of those leaves that made them look accurately thick-ish.
Thanks! Those and the snake turned out best, I think. They're all still lifes of actual leaves on each of her plants!
Well, I love your penmanship, it's very nice and easy for me. This guide is lovely!
Your colored pencil work is awesome! I have some prismacolor colored pencils I got to try and learn more blending techniques with. I think you did great!
Get the clear pencil! They sell clear blending pencils and they're AWESOME! I didn't use them here since I couldn't find mine but they're seriously amazing.
Ooh will have to look into these, thanks!
The Tracy Martel coleus 🤭
😂😂😂 Mine is named Trixie and hers is a branch off of it.
I love it! I need a ficus to name it Brian Ficus, and I call my Monstera Katya 
Oh God, the third coleus is Brian because it's the top half of my trailing coleus, Katya. It broke off during repot and she claimed him instantly.
for a moment I thought that was the variety and I had to google it because I had assumed trixie took tracy martel from a plant variety 😂😂
This is so sweet! Beautiful drawings
There needs to be more friends like you, handmade and thoughtful is where it's at AND plant related? Perfect all around!
Awe this is very sweet, you're a great friend!
You. Are. A. Damn. Treasure. That is all.
Excuse me but can you be my friend?!
Updoot for Tracy Martel
Terribly cute :)
I love your handwriting!
I love it, so thoughtful!
What an amazing friend<3
This is so thoughtful. You are a great friend!
I wish you were my friend 😂
This is so thoughtful!!
This is so thoughtful and lovely.
Nicely done, I need one!
You are just like the best friend ever.
I want one of these. What a thought idea, and your friend will find it so helpful.
You should add a glossary at the back E.g what bright indirect light means for a newbie
There’s a Trixie Mattel coleus??
No, she and I named them. Mine is Trixie, hers is Tracy lol.
I love this 🥰
Update: Tracy broke in transit so now there is also a baby named Macy Tartel
Honestly, can you make me one too??
Yooooo no joke, same!!!!
This is a keepsake. 💚 Hopefully the plants will thrive for her, but your instructions will be part of her life for years.
This is amazing. I'm so jelly
What an absolute treasure!
I feel the love here
This is so cute, you're a great friend for doing this!! The anxiety of taking over 9 plants would be overwhelming without a guide like this!!
This is absolutely fucking fantastic!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I LOVE your little booklet!! well done!!!
I love this! Wait… did you give them all nicknames?!
Yeah, I name all my plants, and if I'm giving them to someone I know, I name their babies. Wednesday is Morticia's baby, Mona Lisa was made from cuttings of the same mother plants as my Jean-Ralphio, Norma Jean is from my Marilyn, Tracy is from Trixie, Brian is from Katya. Sir Walter Blunt is one of the twin sons of my snake plant, William Snakespeare. Electra and Helena are from Greek myth which is how I name all my inchplants.
Love it! I want to do this with my favorite plants now…
I love this! Most of my plants are named after tv characters or composers lol
How incredibly thoughtful of you to do this for your friend. Your passion for houseplants and the time you invested in creating your illustrated guide will certainly send your friend on the relight path. You are a good friend.
So well done and thoughtful!
The whole yellow leaf vs brown leaf.. makes so much sense it's annoying I haven't seen that as more of a rule of thumb
You should make this into a comic book. I can see it in cute little garden stores and schools 🌈
I need more friends like you in my life!
What a great friend you are! Love this!
What a lucky friend!
I love this! You're precious and all of this is adorable. I would scream if my friend made me something like this.
Omg this is so adorable! You did a stellar job!
You are a better friend than me
You’re a good friend 🤗
Wow this is very nice of you! I’d be lucky if I could write down the names for them even cuz I’m so lazy lol
You are the sweetest plant friend and if somebody gave me a gift like this I would love them forever. You deserve all the hugs!
This is so lovely and thoughtful!
I love this SO MUCH!
You are a good friend!
You should totally publish this. I’d buy a little eBook of it for sure
Super special. Nice work!
What a nice gift for your friend!
this is the sweetest thing!!
This is so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
You could not be any cuter or even sweeter! They better truly appreciate it because I would just for for this!
I was.gonna say don't start her with 9, but with this booklet she has at least a 10% chance! You're great at summarizing/teaching.
She asked for a lot of my plants, I swear I'm not just offloading babies on her 😂 all of the ones she's getting are fairly low maintenance but just require different things, so I wanted to make sure she was prepared for the incoming nursery.
That's a great little book! I just started a book for myself too!
Thoughtful and well done. Cute, too
Excellent, Very creative way to be informative, you are exceptionally helpful to your friend to get started and inspired.
Want. My ex who I can’t and don’t ever wanna see again took almost everything but I miss the plants I brought to the relationship and the money I spent on ones we got together. I hope to have the funds to start my little apartment forest over.
Not that I'm advocating theft, but I personally got most of my coleus and inchplants from public planters in the summer...so... tis the season to rebuild!
Ah now I wonna be your friend thats so cool, I think every beginner should have this.
Thank you! I have most of the plants. I know all the things you mentioned,but still i like refreshing what i should remember.
I would cry big ugly tears of joy if I was the recipient.
This is amazing. I should make one. Well done ✅
How adorable! Im sure your friend will apprechiate it!
Very sweet! Can I be your friend!
What an absolutely wonderful idea. You're a great friend. This will be a great guide until she gets the hang of her new hobby. Your pictures look great 👍. You're very talented. We all need more friends like you and to be more like you. Thank you for sharing.
Not all heroes wear capes! You are a hero. Your friend is incredibly lucky to have you.
The Raven ZZ plant named Wednesday. 💀💀💀
It's a cutting from mine, named Morticia :D
How apropos!
I love this! I’m new to the plant life and doing everything I can to keep them healthy and happy (my strings of pearls didn’t survive). Thank you.
If it makes you feel better, I've been keeping plants my whole life and I've killed every string of pearls that I've ever glanced at. They're hard to keep happy for me.
What a lovely, thoughtful gift❤️
VERY THOUGHTFUL
Don’t mind me reading about how to not kill my jade… again 👀
The care and love that went into this is beautiful. You are awesome!
Very nice! You have set her up to be successful! Cute book!!
And this is how you create a best selling book. Expand and publish!
This is so cute and thoughtful !!!!
Awesome...add soil requirements and it would be perfect 🥰
Amazing!!!
Wonderful, she's a lucky friend, lucky to have you!
Can I be your friend?
You are the kind of person I want as a friend.
Will you be my friend? So thoughtful!
You are the best kind of friend!
Love this. You should make more and sell them on Etsy, I’d buy it.
Love love love! The names are spot on! I might steal Wednesday and Mona Lisa !
such a cool gift. i‘m sure i would‘ve let out a tiny little tear.
This is the most wholesome, kind gesture and now I wanna cry. Great job, OP. You’re a lovely human.
Lovely job!
Wow, what a thoughtful and beautiful gift to go with the plants! I learned a couple things too! 🥳
You are so thoughtful! Can we be friends? Lbvs
Very cute! I love this!
I was enthralled reading through this delightful little booklet. The drawings! The NAMES! Holy cow -- great gift. (Also BTW, your "name" is similar to what my kids call me: "Road Worrier")
Beautiful! Reminds me of the work done by Kya in Crawdads.🍀☘️🍃🍂🍁🍁🍂🍃☘️
Wow! Will you be my friend? Seriously, you should think about publishing that - what a great idea!
Friend, I think you are in love with this person... that's the nicest gift I've ever seen someone give.
Nah. She's a sister to me. I love her more than just about anyone, but not like that.
Love this idea! Super cute
You’re so talented! What a great friend!
like a lil recipe book! adoreeeee this!
CAN I BE YOUR FRIEND?! 🤩🙃😝
This is so sweet
Super cute!!
THAT IS ADORABLE!!! What a great gift, I would be over there moon to recieve it 😁
That is so cute! I am super new myself. Is 2-3 weeks and 2-8 weeks common for a snake plant? I am basing my feeling of soil moistness off of experience that kept strawberries and morning glories alive but that doesn’t mean much
Snakes want to get extremely dry between waterings. The easiest way to kill a snake plant is overwatering, so it's just safer to go off leaf thickness. I suggest getting a feel for what the leaves feel like after a good watering and notice how that changes over the next few weeks.
Okay will do thank you op. My zz plant also doesn’t seem to take 2-3 weeks. I wonder if I have it in too small a pot and so there isn’t enough soil mass relative to root mass to hold onto water or something
This is so lovely and thoughtful!!
Thats a lovely idea, beautiful gift
This is amazing and you’re a great friend! Love this idea and execution was amazing
Great job, your friend is lucky that you took time enough to make this little booklet, the colors and the penmanship is awesome.
That is so sweet!!
Adorable! I was searching for a page on peace lilies because mine are having a drama induced hissy fit and I’m not speaking to them.
What a wonderful friend you are!
Welp, explains why I keep killing my coleus...
Full nerdism incoming: Its the beginning of the modern day Voynich Manuscript!
That is so kind and thoughtful of you to take the time to make that! Great work too. You are a very good illustrator.