Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants

Simon & Schuster's Nature Guide Series

by Allessandro B. Chiulosi, Alessandro Chiusoli, Maria Luisa Boriani

Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants is the definitive guide to selecting the right plants for your indoor environment and making them flourish. The introductory chapter explains how plants grow; how and when to feed, repot, and prune them; how to protect them from pests and diseases; the best ways to arrange and support house plants; and how to engage in hydroculture. Each of the 243 entries, illustrated in lush full color, gives the plant's family, place of origin, description, propagation requirements, and complete instructions on temperature, lighting, and watering. Whether you are a novice or an expert indoor gardener, this indispensable guide is the most authoritative and useful handbook on house plants you can own.

Genres: Gardening, Reference, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 1987

Reviews

[Christina]

Continuing to weed my gardening books. This is one of two books I have on house plants, and I have two more in this series (on orchids and cacti & succulents). The photos in my edition of this book look a bit dated. The writing is also not very accessible for the average reader, and the common named of the plants aren’t included. It reads like a reference book for people who have studied horticulture, with a lot of technical terms scattered throughout the descriptions of the plants.

I think my other book on house plants, i>The House Plant Expert By Dr. D.G. Hessayon, is more accessible, and covers the information in this book. I don’t think I need to keep this one.

Verdict: rehome

[T]

Informative, but broadly about everything.
Need to look up more information is researching any real specifics.

[Margarita]

Mini encyclopedia of indoor plants... with pictures and easy care and propagation (very important, I like to share plants with people) directions... a new area in life we're venturing into. We found out we were slowly killing a Schlumberger Truncata (Thanksgiving Cactus or crab cactus) right in our own back yard! What a horrible thing to do! Luckily, it is now inside with proper light and water and we're hoping it will be in full bloom soon... excited to see what other indoor plants we're killing outside in our backyard for us to save! :)

[Susan]

very compact.