TikToker Dana (@leafydiva), who specializes in plants and gardening, garnered over 238,000 views when she named three plants she recommends avoiding at Home Depot, no matter their beauty.
Dana says she is “attached to this plant and can’t let it go,” but “the spider mites are relentless.”
Alocasia Polly
Anthurium regale
“This is an absolute stunner,” Dana says of the Anthurium regale. “However, it grows incredibly slow … you’ll still go gray waiting for a new leaf to pop out.”
Queen anthurium
Dana says, “near impossible to keep pretty. It’s sensitive to even the slightest changes in humidity, temperature, or watering. Even the nicest specimens have scarring, browning around the leaf margins, and cuts made to hide the browning.”
Many at-home gardeners in Dana’s comments section wondered if they’d bitten off more than they could chew.“I literally just bought an alocasia, should i take it back,” one asked.“Love/hate relationship with some plants, for real,” a second remarked.