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  <title><![CDATA[Plant Care Nest]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Plant Care Nest is a small plant shop in Fushimi, Kyoto. Uncommon houseplants, handmade ceramic pots, and on-site soil blends. Open Wed-Sun.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Summer in the Greenhouse: What's Surviving and What Isn't]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[July in Fushimi means heat that sits on the greenhouse roof from about nine in the morning. We've been adjusting shade cloth levels and watching which plants are handling it well. A few notes from the past two weeks.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-07-09</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[New Arrivals from Nakamura Pottery, Tamba-Sasayama]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[We drove up to Tamba-Sasayama last Saturday and came back with twenty-three pieces from Nakamura Pottery. The new wide-mouth planters are in the shop now. A few notes on what makes this batch different from the last.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-28</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Soil Workshop: What We Covered in June]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Eight people came to the June soil and roots workshop. We covered drainage, root anatomy, and how to read a plant that's in trouble. A short summary of what came up, for those who couldn't make it.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why Your Potting Soil Is Probably Too Dense: A Guide to Mixing Your Own]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a particular kind of late-autumn afternoon — the light going amber, the windows fogged at the edges — when the temptation is to repot everything at once. The monstera has been sulking since September. The succulent collection near the south-facing sill looks pale and waterlogged. And yet reaching for the nearest bag of multipurpose compost and calling it done is precisely the habit that keeps houseplants from ever truly thriving. The problem, more often than not, is not the plant and not the light and not the watering schedule. It is the soil itself — too dense, too moisture-retentive, too forgiving of a mixture that suits a hanging basket in a garden centre rather than a lithophyte clinging to a cliff face in Yunnan. Understanding what soil actually does, and what each of its components contributes, is the quiet shift that separates the keeper of plants from the grower of them.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-08</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Keep Houseplants Alive Through a Kyoto Summer]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[By mid-July, Kyoto stops pretending. The heat that arrives in the basin is not the breezy warmth of early June but something settled and total — a thick, wet pressure that fills every room by nine in the morning and does not leave until well after dark. For anyone who has arranged a shelf of monstera, pothos, or peace lily near a south-facing window in Gion or Fushimi, the season brings a particular kind of dread. The same warmth that feels generous in spring becomes punishing by Obon. This guide is not about surviving summer in the abstract. It is about the specific conditions of Kyoto's July and August — the basin effect, the afternoon spikes above 38°C, the humidity that rarely drops below 70 percent — and what those conditions ask of the plants sharing a space with us.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-12-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Healthy Roots Actually Look Like: A Visual Guide]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a particular quality of light on a late-October afternoon — low, amber, slanting through the kitchen window — that makes repotting feel less like a chore and more like a ritual. The pot comes off, the soil falls away, and suddenly the hidden half of a plant is exposed: a dense or sparse, pale or dark, fragrant or faintly sour tangle of roots that has been quietly sustaining everything visible above the soil line. Most gardeners look at this tangle and feel uncertain. The roots seem fine, or perhaps not fine, but how to be sure? Reading a root ball is a learnable skill, one that sits at the intersection of botany and close attention, and it changes the way a person understands a plant entirely. This guide moves through that skill slowly, the way the season itself moves — without rushing toward a conclusion.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-10-23</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Shigaraki and Tamba: The Difference Between Two Kiln Traditions]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a moment in late autumn, when the hills around Shigaraki are the colour of spent cedar, that the kilns come alive again. Smoke rises from the anagama chimneys before dawn, and the potters — most of them working in the same valleys their predecessors occupied four centuries ago — begin the long vigil of stoking. We came to understand the pots we source for Plant Care Nest by spending time in two of Japan's oldest ceramic regions: Shigaraki, in Shiga Prefecture, and Tamba, in the mountains of Hyogo. What we found was not simply a difference in technique, but a difference in philosophy — in the relationship between the maker, the fire, and the earth itself. Both traditions have shaped our eye for what a plant pot can be.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-05-24</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beginner's Guide to Reading a Plant That's in Trouble]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Late on a Tuesday afternoon, a monstera sits on a windowsill in a flat in Edinburgh, its lower leaves the colour of old newspaper. The owner has been watering it faithfully every five days, following instructions found on a care card tucked into the nursery pot. By every reasonable measure, the plant should be thriving. It is not. The leaves are telling a story, and the care card is not the translation. Learning to read that story — to move from panic and guesswork toward something closer to quiet observation — is less a technical skill than a shift in attention, a willingness to treat a struggling plant as a source of information rather than a source of guilt.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-07</pubDate>
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