Some Videos We Like & A Few Tips
How to Slip Knot and Chain, video by Happy Berry Crochet
Single Crochet, video by Hopeful Honey
American Double Crochet, video by The Crochet Crowd
Magic Circle, video by Hopeful Honey
https://youtu.be/CMPPAfXez8Q
Hyperbolic Crochet, video by Benjamin Krudwig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz3t7YrCjxM
Crochet Abbreviations Master List (compiled by Craft Yarn Council)
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/standards/crochet-abbreviations
As you begin:
Be as neurotic as you enjoy, but please remember that living plants are messy, irregular, imperfect and odd. Also, anything you send us will likely be seen at a distance. It is truly impossible to screw this up. In fact, we personally find crochet perfection a little too cutesy.
It may be reassuring to know that anything that looks weird is probably just a different kind of stitch - if it works, it works.
More ominously - your next row depends on the present row (History!). Future You will be grateful if you keep your tension even-ish and maybe not so tight.
Pattern-shmattern. What if you improvise?
Everything looks good in dappled light. If you're frustrated, find some dapples.