You're Overwatering It! A Plant Guru's Guide to Houseplants

By: Jonny Balchandani

Published by Timber Press, Incorporated, 2026-02-24

Water your plant every 7 days? Rubbish.

Misting increases humidity? Barely.

All plants go dormant in winter? Not if you control their environment.

And don't even get me started on the "just put an ice cube on your orchid" people. You monsters.



New from social media sensation The Bearded Plantaholic (known as Jonny Balchandani IRL), You're Overwatering It! helps readers choose houseplants to fit their lifestyle, personality, and taste--leading them to plants that will work for them, rather than what's in style. This fun, funny, and gamified guide helps readers perfect their plant parenting skills, working through levels from Plant Noob to Budding Botanist, Plant Whisperer to Plant Curator, and then finally to Plant Mystic. This is a wildly comprehensive yet eminently accessible guidebook from a peer expert, with a fresh voice that brings humor and irreverence to the indoor gardening space. Readers will learn how to grow plants better, what they're doing wrong, and why to ditch the tempting yet distracting myths that send many houseplant growers badly astray. Balchandani teaches plant stewards not just how to care for their beloved houseplants, but how to understand them--so caring for them stops being a chore and starts becoming second nature.