Houseplants for Beginners

Houseplants for Beginners

Author: Rebecca De La Paz

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1647398517

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Become the best houseplant parent you can be with beginner-friendly tips and tools. Houseplants are a great way to decorate, ease stress, and stay connected with nature when you're indoors—and it's the perfect summer activity. If you're looking to grow your collection and need some advice, Houseplants for Beginners has all the information you'll need to successfully care for your plants and help them thrive. Learn how to shop for and repot houseplants, choose the best place in your home for them, and address a variety of challenges like pests and diseases. With 120 common houseplant profiles grouped from low maintenance to high maintenance, you can familiarize yourself with individual plant needs and choose the best ones for your lifestyle. The perks of houseplants—Explore a brief history of houseplants and the benefits of bringing nature inside, including relieving stress and inviting more creativity and happiness into your life. Plant wisdom—Find key insights to set you up for success as you begin your houseplant adventure, from propagation techniques to safety suggestions. Troubleshooting tips—Get straightforward advice for solving seemingly difficult houseplant problems. Start a new summer hobby and fill your home with flourishing houseplants with help from this essential guide for beginners.


Guide to Houseplants

Guide to Houseplants

Author:

Publisher: Gramercy

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780517162811

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Rev. ed. of: The houseplant encyclopedia / Maggie Stuckey. 1993.


The Houseplants Guide for Beginners and Plant Lovers

The Houseplants Guide for Beginners and Plant Lovers

Author: Christo Sullivan

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-18

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13:

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This book is a guide, a manual, a handbook. But most of all this is my love letter to all the plants in the world. Inside this book you will find my notes from 17 years of passion and experience of living in the Nature. This guide is specifically for those who do not have plenty of space in their backyards, and want to start approaching the art of growing plants at home. They will give you as much love as you give them. Often more. My name is Christo Sullivan, and 17 years ago I was fortunate enough to had become who I wanted to be. No, let me restate that... I was fortunate enough to become, fairly early in my life, what society wanted me to be. Then I quit, and I started to become who I wanted to be. I had enough to part from the world and retire, and so I did. From that moment on I learned to live surrounded by nature. In this book I want to share with you my knowledge about harboring plants inside our houses, my best raccomandations, how to grow them, and how to attend to them. Houseplants are a great way to ease stress, purify our air and stay connected with nature even when when you're indoors, even if you're not an expert. Inexpensive to purchase, easy to care for and a statement in any space they inhabit, growing these plants is very easy, if you know how to do it. The Houseplant for Beginners and Plant Lovers is your no-fuss guide that takes you from being an absolute beginners to know a great deal about houseplants. In this book you will find out: The benefits of having plants inside your house The 15 lowest-maintenance plants to keep inside The 14 best plants to keep you healthy How to manage the 4 Elements of house planting Water, Light, Hearth and Heat The best kept secret on how to make your plants propagate efficiently The only efficient techniques to groom and prune How to solve common houseplants problems, the Do's and Dont's The Houseplants Guide for Beginners and Plant Lovers is really packed with all the informations you'll need to successfully make your houseplants thrive. This is the book I wished I had when I first started. Click on "Buy Now" and get started in the very rewarding path to grow and love your houseplants!


The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery

The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery

Author: Emma Sibley

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1787132838

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House plants are having a moment. Inexpensive to purchase, easy to care for and a statement in any space they inhabit, growing these plants is virtually foolproof. The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery is a source of green inspiration for small-space gardening, featuring a directory of 60 of the most popular varieties of foliage to own. From dramatic palms and tropical leafy wonders to beautiful ferns and flowering potted plants – this book covers everything you need to know about nurturing and growing your own. Each of the 60 plants is accompanied by luscious photography and an easy-to-follow breakdown of all the essential requirements for that variety. This includes details on size, growth and flowering, along with any extra tips on caring for that specific plant.


The New Plant Parent

The New Plant Parent

Author: Darryl Cheng

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1683353242

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The creator of Instagram’s House Plant Journal mixes love with scientific logic in this beautifully photographed guide for indoor gardeners. For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. With this book, indoor gardeners can be less a passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner becomes a plant lover, bonded to these beautiful living things by a simple love and appreciation of nature. The New Plant Parent covers all of the basics of growing house plants, from finding the right light, to everyday care like watering and fertilizing, to containers, to recommended species. Cheng’s friendly tone, personal stories, and accessible photographs fill his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for over half a million indoor gardeners.


Root, Nurture, Grow

Root, Nurture, Grow

Author: Caro Langton

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1787133052

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Life with a potted plant is undeniably better. And better yet is the ability to grow and replicate new, healthy houseplants without ever having to visit a garden centre again. Learn to share, swap and celebrate the miraculous methods of multiplying all of your favourites at almost no cost at all. And here’s the secret: it’s really, really easy. Plants are designed to multiply. They spread their roots, send off inquisitive shoots, and regenerate themselves in all sorts of exciting and unexpected ways without any help. Even for the beginner indoor gardener, a single leaf can hold enough life to be successfully grown into a brand new plant. With Root, Nurture, Grow, you’ll quickly discover how to propagate any houseplant, take cuttings, cultivate runners and offsets, divide plants at the roots and even grow brand new root systems in the air. You’ll learn pruning methods that produce no waste, organic rooting medium recipes, and eventually enjoy gifting and swapping newly grown greenery with friends, family and other houseplant hoarders you’ll meet along the way. As well as myriad propagation methods, the book includes practical DIY projects to better nurture and display your plant family, including a homemade propagation chamber and simple self-watering planters.


The Inspired Houseplant

The Inspired Houseplant

Author: Jen Stearns

Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1632171783

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The ultimate indoor gardening book, this guide offers inspiration and instruction for creating vibrant in-home gardens and caring for your houseplants With plentiful images and a distinctly modern and sophisticated feel, this book imparts both easy-to-follow advice and creative garden-design inspiration. Whether you are looking to pick a statement plant for your living room, create a terrarium centerpiece, or arrange an artful display of air plants, this book will provide the tools you need. You'll be tempted to thumb through it again and again—for both resource and relaxation. The Inspired Houseplant includes: • Plant Basics: beginner-friendly plant care info • Plant Guide: profiles of popular indoor plants • Plant Projects: fun, easy projects with major wow factor (including trending designs like terrariums, air plants, marimo and other underwater gardens, kokedama, mounted staghorn ferns, and edible herbs) • Plant Style: ways to use plants in interior design for every style from Desert Boho to Midcentury Modern


Practical Houseplant Book

Practical Houseplant Book

Author: Zia Allaway

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0744034612

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Twelve inspiring projects, plus 200 in-depth plant profiles with detailed useful information and care instructions to help you cultivate and care for your houseplants. Learn how to choose which plants to use where, care for your houseplants to keep them healthy, and use plants to best effect in your home, with trusted advice, creative inspiration, strong visual aesthetic, and practical step-by-step detail. Two hundred plant profiles provide information and care instructions for a wide variety of plants, including ferns, orchids, and succulents, while a dozen step-by-step photographic projects offer exciting ideas for using plants to decorate your home or greenhouse--from eye-catching terrariums to a living succulent wall to a floating kokedama "string garden." With information on plant care, propagation, pests and diseases, pruning, and problem-solving, The Practical Houseplant Book is the essential guide for indoor gardeners.


Creative Houseplant Projects

Creative Houseplant Projects

Author: Lisa Eldred Steinkopf

Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1631598848

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Creative Houseplant Projects introduces readers to the world of growing and decorating with houseplants through care tips and fun DIY houseplant crafts.


Houseplants for a Healthy Home

Houseplants for a Healthy Home

Author: Jon VanZile

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1507207301

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This A-to-Z guide illuminates the numerous health benefits of 50 common, easy-to-grow houseplants along with detailed care instructions and beautiful illustrations of each plant. With plant-scaped rooms popping up all over Pinterest, style blogs, and home décor magazines, houseplants are the hottest home accessory right now—and for good reason. Plants are a quick and easy way to add life, color, and texture to any indoor space. But houseplants offer so much more than just visual interest to a room. They can purify the air, reduce stress, improve sleep—and much more! Houseplants for a Healthy Home explains the specific health and wellness benefits of 50 common, easy-to-grow, and popular houseplants, while introducing you to new favorites bound to brighten your life. You will find an A-to-Z guide of a variety of the plants that includes a beautiful illustration of each plant, along with the plant’s health benefits and clear, detailed care instructions. Let Houseplants for a Healthy Home lead you to a life in full bloom.