Houseplant writer · Blogging teacher

I write about houseplants and teach beginners to blog.

Hi, I’m Caroline. I’ve been blogging since 2012 and writing about houseplants since 2019. My houseplant blog, Planet Houseplant, reaches around 18,000 readers a month.

Currently on my windowsill

Ponytail Palm

My sites

Everywhere else I grow things

Planet Houseplant ↗ The big money blog. Jokes, Google saw to that
Planet Houseplant on YouTube ↗ I try hard, ok. Video does not come naturally to me.
Nobody Mist Me ↗ An experiment in reeeeally niching down.
Substack ↗ Can’t a girl just have a Substack??

Content With Plain Text

Fancy starting a blog of your own?

There are 60-odd articles on this site, but you only really need these five. Read them in order and they’ll take you from blank page to a blog with readers.

01

Pick a niche

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02

Make a content plan

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03

Write your articles

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04

Get traffic

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05

Get monetised

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A few things about me

2012

The year I started blogging

77

Plants in my house, and counting

Holly (rabbit)

The one I’d save first

Say hello

caroline@carolinecocker.com

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