About Robert, Founder of Divine Roots

Robert is the founder of Divine Roots and the author of every care guide on this site. He runs a working nursery in Texas, where the plants we sell are grown, propagated, potted and packed by hand before they ship. The advice in our guides is not aggregated from other websites — it is what we have learned keeping thousands of plants alive across seasons, shipping conditions and customer homes.

Why our care advice is different

Most houseplant content online is written by writers who have never grown the plant. Ours is written from the growing bench. When a guide says a hoya needs three years before it blooms, or that a cylinder snake plant rots at the base after a fortnight of wet soil, that is an observation from our own benches and from the questions customers send us after their plants arrive.

Every article is reviewed against three things: what the plant actually does in our nursery, what customers most commonly get wrong with it, and what the horticultural literature says. Where those disagree, we say so in the guide rather than repeating the received wisdom.

What we grow

Divine Roots specialises in houseplants, aquatic plants, carnivorous plants and terrarium plants. Our most-requested categories are philodendrons, tradescantia, fittonia and nerve plants, and plants that are safe around pets. You can see what is currently in stock across the full catalogue, or start with our best sellers and new arrivals.

Shipping live plants

Shipping a living thing across the country is the hardest part of this business, and it shaped a lot of what we know. Plants are packed to survive several days in a dark box, seasonal heat packs are added when the forecast calls for them, and every order is covered by our live arrival guarantee. If something arrives unhappy, we want the photo and the order number — that feedback is how our packing has improved year over year.

Where to start

New to houseplants? Begin with watering indoor plants, which is the single skill that determines whether a plant lives. From there, propagation and repotting cover most of what a first year of plant keeping asks of you. If something is already going wrong, our guides on root rot and pest identification are the two most-used troubleshooting pages on the site.

Questions

Robert and the Divine Roots team answer plant questions directly. If a care guide does not cover your situation, get in touch with a photo of the plant — the answer often becomes the next article.