Experts told me how to fix my leggy houseplants – it's a simple method that encourages healthy growth, and I've got free plants in the process

Houseplant care pruning leaves.

I have a bit of a houseplant problem. I love filling my home with greenery, but I'm also guilty of choosing where plants live based on where they look best rather than where they'll necessarily be happiest.

And a couple of my houseplants are now making that very obvious. Instead of the full, leafy plants they once were, they've developed long stems, increasingly large gaps between leaves and in some cases a definite lean towards the nearest window. In other words, they become leggy.