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Repotting

With some simple gardening tips, you can learn to pot your houseplants in no time. Repotting is good when a plant becomes overgrown or maybe you purchased new decorative pots for your indoor plants.

Either way, repotting takes a few simple steps to make sure your plants grow successfully. Here are some basics that beginners need to know on repotting plants. Many of your repotting questions are answered there as long as the materials you'll need to get started.

You can find information on repotting the following houseplants:

  • Arrowhead Plant
  • Christmas Cactus
  • Jade Plants
  • Dracaena
  • Dracaena Lemon Lime
  • The Money Tree
  • Monstera Adansonii
  • Hoyas
  • Ponytail Palm
  • Pothos
a small money tree tied with a red ribbon at the top sits inside a talavera pot

Blog, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting · 02/13/2019

How To Repot A Money Tree (Pachira Aquatica) Plus The Mix To Use

The Money Tree, or Pacquira aquatica, is proclaimed to bring good luck into our homes. There are actually a few plants …

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4 different pictures of aloe vera make up a collage the text reads aloe vera 101: a round up of our best guides on plant growth maintenance & propagation

Aloe Vera, Container Gardening, Desert Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Propagation, Repotting, Succulents · 12/11/2018

Aloe Vera 101: A Round Up of Aloe Vera Plant Care Guides

Aloe Vera is one of our favorite plants here at Joy Us garden, and for good reason. These plants are fun to look at and …

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close up of a colorful tray of mixed succulents in manyl colors & textures

Blog, Container Gardening, Desert Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Repotting, Succulents · 12/04/2018

How to Transplant Succulents in Pots

If you've read any of my posts then you know I love succulents. Yes it's true, both fleshy succulents and succulents …

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aloe vera plants growing outdoors in a purple/blue pot

Aloe Vera, Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting, Succulents · 11/06/2018

Planting Aloe Vera In Containers; Plus The Mix to Use

Aloe vera is a plant I love which I've always grown it in pots, both in the house and in the garden. It's a plant that …

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close up of various succulent cuttings in a bright blue pot

Blog, Container Gardening, Desert Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Propagation, Pruning, Repotting, Succulents · 10/02/2018

Succulent Plants Growing Long Stems: Why it Happens and What to Do

Oh, succulents we do love you but why do your stems grow long? My garden in Santa Barbara was chock-full of them but it …

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close up of the trails & leaves of a string of hearts vine

Blog, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting · 08/07/2018

Planting A String Of Hearts (Rosary Vine, Ceropegia Woodii), A Trailing Houseplant

Oh, String Of Hearts, we've been through a lot together. Do you ever feel that way about any of your plants? This …

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2 peperomias, 1 in a pearlescent pot & the other in an orange pot, sit on a table outdoors the text read repotting peperomia plants plus the proven mix to use

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting, Succulents · 08/01/2018

Repotting Peperomia Plants (Plus The Proven Soil Mix To Use!)

Peperomias are among the easiest houseplants to grow and plainly put, I think they're the cat's meow. Have you ever …

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close up of a large green aeoniums and smalller burgundy aeoniums growing in a purple pot the text reads how to plant aeoniums and the best mix to use

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Repotting, Succulents · 07/03/2018

Planting Aeoniums: How To Do It & The Best Soil Mix To Use

Aeoniums are those wonderful succulents which grow in a variety of colors and sizes but all are rosette-shaped. I love …

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2 small snake plants & a small grouping of succulents sit on a table in small colorful pots the text reads how to plant small succulents & snake plants in small pots

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting, Snake Plants, Succulents · 05/01/2018

How To Plant Small Snake Plants and Succulents In Small Pots

Small snake plants and succulents will do just fine in small pots for a couple of years. Here's how to plant snake …

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an adenium grows in a low purple pot the text reads repoting my beautiful adenium aka desert rose

Blog, Container Gardening, Desert Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting, Succulents · 01/06/2018

Repotting My Beautiful Adenium (Desert Rose)

It was true love when the Adenium my dad grew in the greenhouse attached to our home in Connecticut bloomed for the 1st …

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A red small pot planted with succulents, next to it there's a cement log planter filled with succulents, below that it reads: Planting & Watering Succulents In Pots Without Drain Holes

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting, Succulents · 11/11/2017

How to Plant & Water Succulents In Pots Without Drain Holes

I've done many posts on succulents and there's one thing I always say: don't keep them wet. A couple of ways to keep …

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Nell Foster holding a dracanea cutting below the text reads Transplanting My Dracaena Marginata With Its Cuttings

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting · 10/07/2017

Transplanting My Dracaena Marginata With Its Cuttings

When you move into a new house it's nice to inherit something you really want instead of 35 cans of old paint, scraps of …

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aloe vera babies planted in a small orange pot, a text below reads How To Plant & Care For Aloe Vera Pups (Babies)

Aloe Vera, Blog, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Propagation, Repotting, Succulents · 09/27/2017

Aloe Vera Pups: Care and Planting Tips

Your happy Aloe vera has produced babies, which you have removed. Now, what's next? My aloes have produced many baby …

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A succulent in a decorated pot on top of a teal coffee table the text below it reads Freshening Up and Amending A Succulent Pot_new

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Repotting, Succulents · 08/18/2017

Freshening Up & Amending A Succulent Pot

I had a garden full of them in Santa Barbara but since I've moved to Tucson, I grow my fleshy succulents in containers. …

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Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Repotting, Succulents · 06/03/2017

Transplanting Cactus: A Mixed Planting Starring Golden Barrel Cacti

I've always been fascinated with cactus and was tickled pink to discover that they're all the rage in the fashion world, …

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How I Potted My Staghorn Fern To Grow In The Desert

Blog, Desert Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting · 05/20/2017

How I Potted My Staghorn Fern To Grow In The Desert

My Staghorn Ferns were happily living on the coast of Southern California just 7 blocks away from the beach. Not a …

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large pencil cactus cuttings in a pot against a white wall the text reads planting my pencil cactus cuttings

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Houseplant Care, Repotting, Succulents · 05/13/2017

Planting My Pencil Cactus Cuttings

If you're new to the glorious world of gardening, I just want to let you know that every now and then even we …

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How To Transplant A Large Ponytail Palm

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tutorials, Houseplant Care, Repotting · 04/29/2017

How to Transplant A Large Ponytail Palm

I love my 3-headed Ponytail Palm which I bought in a 6" pot at the Santa Barbara Farmers Market years ago. But boy oh …

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Repotting My Large Hoya Topiary

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Houseplant Care, Repotting · 03/11/2017

Repotting My Large Hoya Topiary

Oh my goodness, how I do love Hoyas! They're such an easy and attractive houseplant to grow and when they flower, even …

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planting hanging succulents

Blog, Container Gardening, Gardening 101, Repotting, Succulents · 01/07/2017

Planting My Trio Of Hanging Succulents

I straight up confess: I'm a succulent addict. That being said, I've slightly curbed my enthusiasm for "the fleshies" …

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