ABOUT ME

My name is Jessica. I am a mid-thirties plant enthusiast, I have been growing orchids, anthuriums and carnivorous plants long enough to have made most of the mistakes worth making and learned something from all of them.

By day I work within Research & Development where my focus is Microbiology. It turns out that spending your professional life thinking about microbial communities, what they do, how they are disrupted and why that disruption matters has a way of changing how you look at plant care. The biology does not stop being interesting when you get home.

My collection leans toward the obsessive end of the spectrum. Miniature Lepanthes orchids, velvet anthuriums, Carnivorous plants, epiphytes, anything with an interesting evolutionary story behind it.

I have always questioned why things are done the way they are done in the plant hobby. Why certain products are recommended so confidently, what the evidence actually says, whether the advice travelling through communities at speed has ever been seriously examined or just repeated until it felt true. That questioning became a habit, the habit became a passion, and the passion eventually needed somewhere to live.