The Plant Room's Jungle Journal: A Journal into Plant Life

Winter Care for Plants in Colorado  Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash  One of the questions I receive from people most often lately is, "how do I care for my plants in the winter?" I decided that this was a good first topic to get the blog started! The information I am going to share with you here is based on my personal experience and research over the years.  Why is plant care more difficult in the fall/winter months?  I am not going to fully disagree with the fact that taking care of plants in the winter can be a bit challenging, but I am going to say that I think the problem is often times blown out of proportion. The main challenges in Colorado come from shorter days which leads to less light, colder temperatures, and even less humidity than we normally deal with.  First, it is important to address the topic of dormancy in house plants. In simple terms think of dormancy in house plants as being equivalent to an animal's hibernation season. This is a time of...

My plant story Hey there! My name is Victor and I am the owner of The Plant Room. We are a small Denver, CO based latinx plant shop. My love and appreciation for plants began when I was a child as I grew up in a house surrounded by them. My mom, to his day has the most amazing way with plants and I spent my childhood watching her resuscitate plants that she found in the trash, or half dead ones that people gave to her at work. I was always fascinated by my mother's ability to bring things that I was sure were dead back to life. To this day some of those second life plants still hang around her house.  My mom saw my childhood interest and began to share what she knew with me. She instilled in me that most plants could easily be taken care of if you started with and focused on the basics: water, soil, light, feeding. Of course, taking care of plants can be a very intense, time consuming, and sometimes expensive process but it doesn't have to necessarily be. The main thing my mom ...