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Amiya Baratan

The Final Trick to Help Your Houseplants Stop Drooping During a Heatwave? An Aspirin — Here's Why Some Plant Doctors Say It'll Help

A wood sideboard with potted pothos and calathea beside a table lamp and a stack of books.

Houseplants can be fussy regularly, but the peak of summer might be when most gardeners (beginner and otherwise) feel overwhelmed by the troubles indoor gardens face in high temperatures — and how bad they look when they start to droop and dry out. In response to said issues, some experts are actually prescribing plants with aspirin.

Yes, an aspirin, just like the one you might take to relieve a headache. It's not the first thing you should do when caring for your plants to survive a heatwave. But it's also not as simple as dissolving an aspirin into your indoor garden's water supply.

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