Plant sitting starts at $99 a month for biweekly watering, however long you’re gone — a week, a month, a snowbird winter (and if you’re only away a week, your plants are usually fine on their own). I schedule visits to what your plants actually need rather than a fixed count, and I text you a photo after every visit. Bigger collections or lots of outdoor pots in summer, just ask and I will quote it.

I back my work with a 30-day plant guarantee — if a plant dies under my care, I replace it. It almost never comes to that, because knowing how to water plants in Austin specifically is the whole job.

It is always me. No call center, no rotating subcontractors, no stranger off an app with your house key. You are working with Will Burke directly, and I am insured.

Because Austin is hard on houseplants in ways most generic advice ignores. Our tap water is hard and chloraminated, the AC runs dry air that breeds spider mites, summers are brutal, and the occasional hard freeze catches everyone off guard. I plan around all of it. A neighbor or a national service does not.

For a lot of plants in Austin, straight tap water slowly causes problems — mineral and chloramine buildup that burns leaf tips over time, especially on sensitive plants like calatheas and prayer plants. Part of what I do is manage that. There is a full breakdown on my Austin hard water guide.