Pest Management
Stop houseplant pests before they take the whole collection
White fuzz on stems, sticky leaves, fine webbing, little flies in the soil: pests spread fast between houseplants. I identify exactly what you have and treat it with the gentlest thing that works.
Flat $185 house call from Sarasota to Port Charlotte. Two hours, written plan included. Virtual consults from $65.
How pest visits work
- Identify the pest correctly. Mealybugs, scale, and mildew get mistaken for each other constantly, and the wrong treatment wastes weeks.
- Check every plant, not just the obvious victim. By the time one plant shows damage, its neighbors are usually carrying passengers.
- Treat with the gentlest effective option and escalate only if needed.
- Prevent reinfestation: quarantine habits, early-warning signs, and a follow-up check to confirm the pests are gone for good.
Why acting early matters
A few mealybugs are a ten-minute fix. A collection-wide infestation is a month of work and usually costs a plant or two. Florida's warmth means pests breed year-round indoors, so the window between "a few spots" and "everywhere" is shorter here than the internet thinks.
How this works, start to finish
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Start
Find out what is actually going on
Two ways in, same visit and same price. A consultation is the whole collection: every plant identified, assessed, and put on a routine. A health diagnosis is one plant in trouble: what went wrong, and whether it can come back.
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Treat you are here
The fix gets done
Every visit ends with a written plan, and most of it you can do yourself. When you would rather not, the treatment is the next booking and I do the work: repotting into the right mix and pot size, or a full pest treatment cycle across the collection.
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Keep
It stays fixed
Routine care is what makes the first two steps hold. Recurring visits handle the watering, feeding, grooming, and a health check every time, whether you are home or away. Canopy adds support between visits; Grove wraps the whole year.
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Grow
You add to it on purpose
Once the collection is healthy, the fun part: new plants chosen for the light a room really gets, and arranged so they look like they were meant to be there.
You can stop after step one. Plenty of people take the written plan and run with it, and that is a good outcome. Nothing here rolls over into anything else on its own.
Common questions
What pests do you treat?
The usual houseplant offenders: mealybugs, scale, spider mites, fungus gnats, thrips, and aphids. Each one needs a different approach, which is why identifying the pest correctly comes before any treatment.
Are the treatments safe around kids and pets?
I start with the gentlest effective option: physical removal, horticultural soap, oils, and cultural changes like adjusting watering. Anything I recommend comes with plain instructions on where and how to use it safely in a home.
Will the pests come back?
They will try. Most infestations arrive on new plants or drift in from the lanai, so treatment includes prevention: quarantine habits for new plants, early-warning signs to watch for, and follow-up checks to make sure the problem is actually gone.
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Worried about a plant? Get an answer this week.
A full 2-hour house call is a flat $185, with diagnosis, treatment plan, and written care guide included. Or start with a $65 virtual consult.
Prefer to talk? (941) 451-7413