One undeniable truth is that houseplants grow. When you purchased your houseplant you saw it located somewhere in your home, decorating a particular shelf or corner.
Now, a couple of years and one repotting later, it has outgrown it’s old location. If you want to keep the houseplant ( as opposed to giving it away), you need to find it a new location where it has enough room to continue to grow. This new area must provide it with the conditions it needs to remain healthy.
In addition to the usual factors of light, temperature and humidity, you also need to consider access to the plant to give it care. Larger houseplants become more difficult to move to tend to watering, pruning and removing spent flowers.
For a small plant, we can just pick it up and move it to a table or countertop to water, remove dead leaves or spent flowers.
For a larger houseplant, moving it becomes more difficult to nearly impossible. Both weight and size become problems you need to deal with.
Unless access to the houseplant remains easy, it’s care and it’s health will tend to suffer.
It is always best to find a new location where the plant remains easily accessible. But there are some tricks you can use to help you care fgor your now larger houseplants.
