Moss Ball Bonsai
Moss Ball Bonsai

Author: Satoshi Sunamori

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1462921515

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Plant, soil, moss, twine--that's all you need to create the exciting form of bonsai known as koke (moss) dama (ball). Moss Ball Bonsai provides all the information you need to make these self-contained gardens, using different types of plants--from flowering trees and ferns to grasses and cacti. A sampling of 100 different kokedama shows how even the most common of house plants can shine in this appealing no-pot environment, while a section on mosses acquaints you with the many tones and textures of this versatile plant family. With this bonsai guide, you will learn how to: Create and maintain a healthy home for your miniature garden's root system Use inexpensive house plants and cuttings as the basis of your kokedama Make beautiful (and quirky) group plantings within a single project Find, collect and propagate moss And more! Whether resting on a pottery dish or suspended in the air, these little indoor gardens are a wonderful way to add a touch of artistry and greenery to your home or work space.

Kokedama
Kokedama

Author: Takayama Fuji

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781544793467

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Kokedama For Beginners!Learn How To Create Stunning Kokedama Japanese Moss Ball Bonsai PlantsAre You Ready To Learn ALL About Japanese Kokedama Plants? If So You've Come To The Right Place...No experience with kokedamas or any form of gardening for that matter? No worries!This book is suited to the absolute beginner that's looking to get started with kokedamas, whether this be for your own enjoyment and a sense of self-accomplishment or perhaps even to make some extra cash as a side business... the choice is yours!Here's A Preview Of What This Book Contains...An Introduction To The KokedamaThe Basics Of Kokedamas You NEED To KnowSuitable Plants For Your KokedamaHow To Make A Stylish Moss BallHow To Make A Beautiful Hanging KokedamaHow To Make A Kokedama String GardenThe Australian Style Kokedama ExplainedHow To Make Your Own Beaded Hanging KokedamaGarden Planter Style Kokedama Design ExplainedSetting Your Kokedama in Twine Vase HangersCaring For Your KokedamaOther Things to Remember About Your KokedamaAnd Much, Much More!Order Your Copy Now And Get Started Now!

Terrariums & Kokedama
Terrariums & Kokedama

Author: Alyson Mowat

Publisher: Kyle Books

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0857838172

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Terrariums, aeriums and kokedama (Japanese for 'moss ball') have exploded in popularity and making them at home is surprisingly easy and a wonderful way to keep plants in our homes. In this inspirational guide, Alyson Mowat shares her creative ideas for greening up your home and workspace, with 20 projects to make your own botanical beauties and containers to show them off. Alyson guides you through the information and tools you'll need to help cultivate your green thumb, before sharing her tips for making your own unique containers, such as a concrete planter or kokedama tray, choosing the best plants for your space and desired effort, and even includes tips to propagate them. With names such as Through the Looking Glass, Plant-O-Saurus and Hung Up on You, the projects are fun and quirky, bringing the outside in. With Alyson's keen, stylish eye, you can create chic, low-maintenance greenery to cover your home or work.

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

Rooted in Design
Rooted in Design

Author: Tara Heibel

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2015-04-21

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1607746980

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A stylish and full-color guide to creatively integrating indoor plants with home decor from the owners of the popular Sprout Home garden design boutiques. Indoor plants play a large role in the design and feel of a space. Focusing on indoor gardening--from small containers and vertical installations with air plants to unique tabletop creations--Rooted in Design provides readers with the means to create beautiful and long-lasting indoor landscapes. Tara Heibel and Tassy De Give, owners of the successful Sprout Home gardening stores, offer expert advice for choosing plant varieties and pairing them with unique design ideas. Sharing practical tips honed through hundreds of plant design classes, Heibel and DeGive tell readers everything they need to know to care for their one-of-a-kind green creations.

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.

The Beautiful Edible Garden
The Beautiful Edible Garden

Author: Leslie Bennett

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1607742330

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A stylish, beautifully photographed guide to artfully incorporating organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs into an attractive modern garden design. We’ve all seen the vegetable garden overflowing with corn, tomatoes, and zucchini that looks good for a short time, but then quickly turns straggly and unattractive (usually right before friends show up for a backyard barbecue). If you want to grow food but you don’t want your yard to look like a farm, what can you do? The Beautiful Edible Garden shares how to not only grow organic fruits and vegetables, but also make your garden a place of year-round beauty that is appealing, enjoyable, and fits your personal style. Written by a landscape design team that specializes in artfully blending edibles and ornamentals together, The Beautiful Edible Garden shows that it’s possible for gardeners of all levels to reap the best of both worlds. Featuring a fresh approach to garden design, glorious photographs, and ideas for a range of spaces—from large yards to tiny patios—this guide is perfect for anyone who wants a gorgeous and productive garden.

Make Your Own Indoor Garden
Make Your Own Indoor Garden

Author: Sarah Durber

Publisher: White Owl

Published: 2021-08-18

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1526774593

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A comprehensive beginner’s guide to low-maintenance houseplants for those who want more greenery in their lives! This book aims to answer the most commonly asked questions by new plant owners—and help non-experts who want to have more greenery in their lives but don’t know where to start. It advises on the best plant for a variety of home conditions so everyone can find plants that suit their space. Find step-by-step guides to creating and designing your own terrariums, cacti and succulent gardens, and even kokedamas (Japanese for Moss Ball). Make Your Own Indoor Garden includes descriptions of the equipment needed and how to find them inexpensively. Discover a newfound joy in plants and nature while you learn a brand-new skill with information on what may be causing damage to a plant, how to look after plants so that they last, and how plants can improve physical and mental health. The innate human need to be around nature is called biophilia—and this book helps you satisfy that need with a focus on low maintenance, good-looking greenery! “True plant connections could start here.” —Booklist

A Wilder Life
A Wilder Life

Author: Celestine Maddy

Publisher: Artisan Books

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1579657249

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In our technology-driven, workaday world, connecting with nature has never before been more essential. A Wilder Life, a beautiful oversized lifestyle book by the team behind the popular Wilder Quarterly, gives readers indispensable ideas for interacting with the great outdoors. Learn to plant a night-blooming garden, navigate by reading the stars, build an outdoor shelter, make dry shampoo, identify insects, cultivate butterflies in a backyard, or tint your clothes with natural dyes. Like a modern-day Whole Earth Catalog, A Wilder Life gives us DIY projects and old-world skills that are being reclaimed by a new generation. Divided into sections pertaining to each season and covering self-reliance, growing and gardening, cooking, health and beauty, and wilderness, and with photos and illustrations evocative of the great outdoors, A Wilder Life shows that getting in touch with nature is possible no matter who you are and—more important—where you are.