Why do my houseplants always die?'

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Without fail my houseplants always die despite me feeding and watering them. My latest casualty is a lovely peace lily that was doing fine but has now got some brown leaves and is dying. I follow someone on Instagram who has a house full of houseplants and they all thrive! Where do I go wrong ?

@Cakecrumbsinmybra

Peace lilies need misting on a regular basis too!

I've never misted mine, had them years in good health.

One of them got unhappy when I put it on a windowledge but recovered when it was put back to the far side of the room.

Thanks MaryWhite I go away for a month or so sometimes in the summer. DH thinks he's doing wonderfully by hosing the pelargoniums on the terrace when it's dry. He keeps them alive but not flowering, as soon as I get back and start watering with rainwater and or my tea/coffee dreg standing tap water they start flowering and perk up no end!

Mine thrive on neglect. They get watered fortnightly ish.... and are mostly on the north east side of the house and not above radiators.

I thought houseplant killing was in my my dna but recently I started growing plants in leca rather than soil and I've now got loads of thriving plants.

I bought a beautiful ficus from sainsburys the other day. It's so big and established so I decided not to transfer it to leca. Half the leaves have brown spots now and I feel clueless. Leca only going forward.

I've moved it away from the window and it's perked up no end, so pleased !!

Overwatering/underwatering.
Wrong position - too much direct light, too little overall light
Low temperature - if you keep your thermostats on the lower end of the 'normal' temperature range then you won't be able to grow a lot of house plants. We have our thermostat on 19C max in the daytime, 15C at night. Peperomias (radiator plants) that are commonly sold need 18 - 24C therefore they struggle in my house without a bit of extra assistance.

This website is good for info as it has nice easy filters to apply to your searches and well displayed info on each plant (but is very expensive so I don't tend to actually buy from them).

hortology.co.uk/collections/a-z-indoor-plants/