About the work

A closer look.

Send me one plant that is struggling and I will tell you the truth about it, not a guess from a photo. You get: what condition the plant is actually in (crisp or mushy or thirsty or rotting), the most likely cause if the evidence supports it, and one concrete change to make today. The one thing a photo cannot carry is light. So before I read anything I ask you to run a 10-second test where the pot sits: stand there and look down at your own shadow. Sharp edge means direct sun. Soft or doubled means bright indirect. None means low light. That single reading settles most of what people bring me. What I will not do is pretend a photo told me what it did not. If the evidence only supports a guess, I name the guess and hand you the test that decides it. Send 2-3 photos (whole plant, top of the soil, newest leaf) plus short answers to a few questions. Written read back within 24-48 hours. One revision included if I got a fact wrong or you send better evidence.