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Can This Houseplant Be Saved?
It’s been a long winter, and your plants could use a little love or maybe a complete overhaul. Here’s what to do.
Cuttings of Darryl Cheng’s snake plants (Sansevieria) have been rooting in water for several months, to varied success. It could take a year or more to get a six-inch pot full of leaves from a few cuttings.Credit.Darryl Cheng
By Margaret Roach
May 26, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET
I just moved my houseplants back outside, after an interminable winter of low-humidity, low-light indoor torture, and some are the worse for wear particularly one long-cherished fancy-leaf begonia.