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A garden read: what your plant is telling you
I would rather you know your plant is fine before you pay me than after. Sometimes the honest read is: nothing is wrong, change nothing, don't buy anything. That is still an answer, and it is the one I give. One I actually delivered: a gerbera, from a photo and one line. The owner wanted to know why it was not flowering. It was not sick. All leaves, no flowers, sitting in a dim corner. Read: not a disease, underlit and out of season. Move it toward the sun, a couple more hours each week. Stop the nitrogen feed, it grows leaves instead of flowers. Keep the crown dry. And wait, the season matters more than anything you do to it. That is what a read is. A verdict, the one change to make first, and what to leave alone. Not twelve guesses in a list. What you get: one photo of a plant that is not doing what you want, plus one line about how you have been caring for it. Inside 2 days, a written read: what the plant is telling you, the one change to make first, what to leave alone. Water, light, soil, drainage, or nothing at all. Houseplants and garden plants. One revision included. The limit, plainly: I will not name a species off one blurry photo, and I will not pad a thin read. I have been wrong about a plant off a single picture before. That is why a read of mine says where it is guessing, and tells you what else to photograph instead of filling the space.
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