Paule's Notebooks
Plants
Perennials, houseplants, propagation, care and troubleshooting. Everything you need to grow, multiply and look after your plants — indoors and out.
A perennial that returns each spring, a lemon tree on the balcony, a philodendron in the living room — every plant has its own needs, its own rhythms, its own way of telling you whether it's thriving or struggling.
In this notebook, we cover all plants: garden plants, houseplants, plants to propagate, plants to nurse back to health. Practical methods, honest diagnoses, no unnecessary jargon.
Cuttings, division, layering — propagating your plants is both economical and deeply satisfying. We explain how to do it, when to do it, and why it sometimes goes wrong.
And when a plant causes concern — yellow leaves, dropping flowers, rotting roots — we look for the real cause before reaching for a remedy.
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Pellitory: The Weed That Used to Wash Bottles
At the foot of old walls grows a weed once used to scrub out bottles. How it was done, why it works, and how to try it.
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The Capitulare de Villis: When Charlemagne Decided What Would Grow in the Gardens
94 plants, 16 fruit trees, 5 fibre and dye plants, and above all why Carolingian power cared about writing down what should grow.
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Purslane: Why This "Weed" Deserves a Place on the Plate
A potato salad with raw purslane, and what this plant really brings: omega-3, vitamins, and the precautions worth knowing.
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