Indoor Plants: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Caring for Houseplants

by Graham Clarke, Graham Clarke

Houseplants are back in vogue and this book is the perfect re-introduction. Expert advice on how to decorate with plants is followed by an exhaustive directory of 170 common species as well as a further 130 more unusual varieties. Fully illustrated throughout with color drawings and photography, Indoor Plants helps you select the most striking plants for any interior and has everything you need to know to keep them healthy and display your plants impressively.

This book will help readers learn how to cope with plant pests and diseass, and expert tips on what to look for when buying indoor plants and ways to group plants to create striking effects. This book has everything you need to know about choosing and caring for houseplants in different parts of the home. An alphabetical charts featuring at-a-glance information on each plant's needs and preferred conditions, and the directories in this book feature more than 300 indoor plants.

Plants are living ornaments that grow and develop, undergoing subtle changes through the seasons and presenting an ever-varying display. A thriving plant is a source of pride to its owner, and it imparts a feeling of well-being to any room.  

Genres: Nonfiction, Plants

240 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2012

About the author

Graham Clarke was born in 1941 and is an artist, author, illustrator and humorist.

Reviews

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful guide with pictorial and verbal descriptions of care needs of many common house plants. I was able to take notes about the needs of some plants I currently care for and also write a "wish list" of other plants I'd like to add to my collection. The book also offers suggestions on how to determine lighting supplied naturally and artificially based on window placement and cardinal direction of walls in the home. Lastly it offers some instructions on propagation, repotting, watering, pests and more.

[Malinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed the information this book provided. Nice illustrations and easy to follow diagrams.

[Bron · Rating 5 out of 5]

The photography and design is a little dated now but this is an excellent all-rounder book of indoor/house plant advice with lots of detailed plant profiles and very useful general information such as how to figure out what kind of light different parts of a room are getting, which plants are likely to be happy in what rooms and how to repot and propagate.