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Two hands settling a small, healthy umbrella plant seedling in a pale pot into dark garden soil outdoors

SAVE A PLANT

Everything deserves a comeback story.

Point your phone at a marked-down, neglected or dying plant. Find out what it is, whether it can come back, and exactly what to do in the next 48 hours.

Scan a plantSee how it works — two example rescues

One plant. Two weeks. Much love.

A real golden pothos photographed in the same pot and on the same pole two weeks apart. It was already healthy — its caretaker moved it into better light and kept showing up, and it filled out noticeably. Not every rescue starts from the brink; this is what steady care looks like on a plant that is simply doing well.

A healthy, well-variegated golden pothos climbing a pole in a white planter at the start of two weeks
Intake
The same golden pothos two weeks later, noticeably fuller and trailing over the edge of the planter
Today

Makes a 1080×1350 card — both photos, days of care and the health change.

How the scan works

  1. Take one photo

    Whole plant, in daylight if you can. No account, no setup.

  2. Get an honest read

    Species, a real/artificial check, and a straight answer on whether it can be saved — with the confidence level shown.

  3. Follow the 48-hour plan

    Water, light and triage steps sized to that plant. Save it to your journal and we'll remind you.

Try it on your plant

Rather not photograph anything yet? Run a sample scan on an example plant.

A person smiling as they settle a young plant into a fresh pot

The plant recovers. So do you.

Pooled analyses of controlled trials find that regular, hands-in-soil plant care significantly reduces depression and anxiety symptoms — in ordinary community-dwelling adults, not just clinical patients.

Read the evidence
An older woman smiling as she mists a windowsill full of thriving houseplants

Most big-box stores mark plants down on a weekly cycle. Ask a garden associate which day — and what happens to the ones that don't sell.

The ask script

Honest answers before you scan

Start your rescue journal