PlantAlmanac is a living reference for houseplant care, facts and origins. Every plant page brings together care that actually works with the botany and stories behind the plant, written to be clear, accurate and genuinely useful.
We are a small team of plant keepers, researchers and editors who care about getting the details right. We grow many of these plants ourselves, and we built PlantAlmanac to be the reference we always wished existed: thorough, honest and free of filler.
Care guidance is grounded in established horticulture rather than guesswork. We cross-check against authoritative references including the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and other respected horticultural and botanical sources, then write it in plain language you can actually follow. Where experienced growers reasonably disagree, we say so instead of pretending there is one rule.
Botanical names, plant families and native ranges follow Plants of the World Online (POWO) from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, so the origins we describe reflect current botanical consensus rather than folklore.
Whether a plant is safe around cats, dogs and children is checked against the toxicity data published by the ASPCA. When a plant is toxic we say which part is the problem and what that means in practice. This is general information, not veterinary or medical advice: if a pet or person has eaten part of a plant, contact a vet or doctor.
Plant photographs come from openly licensed sources, chiefly Wikimedia Commons, GBIF and iNaturalist, used under their stated licences with credit on each page. Before a photo is published it is checked, including an automated vision review, to confirm it shows the right species, looks healthy and is representative of the plant. Anything we cannot verify is held back rather than published.
Pages are reviewed for accuracy and updated as plants, sources and best practice change. We keep folklore clearly separate from care advice, and we never present tradition or a lucky-plant belief as fact. If you spot something wrong, please tell us: corrections are welcome and we act on them.