The Complete Guide to Keeping Your Houseplants Alive and Thriving Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply (Back-To-Basics)

by Sandy Baker

This book was written to provide all plant owners and potential owners the needed steps to keeping their beloved green friends alive, no matter how finicky they can be. In this guide, you will learn all of the basics of houseplant care, starting with a thorough explanation and glossary of terms that are used to describe different plants and how they grow. You will learn a variety of topics realting to houseplant care, Top houseplant experts and gardeners have contributed their insight through various interviews to further the knowledge you can gain from this book and to help you overcome particularly finicky houseplants, finding the right location in the home, avoiding meddling pests and pets, and making sure some unknown contagion is not interfering with the growth of your plants. This book, for anyone who has ever wanted to add a little green to their home, is the perfect path to understanding and keeping alive your favorite houseplants.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2010

Reviews

[Gwen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Simultaneously incredibly detailed for beginners (at least in the first few chapters...) and surprisingly short on quality information, especially regarding growing fruits and veggies inside. The book needed many, many more photos, ideally of each plant. Yes, you could Google each plant name for pictures, but at that point, you might as well just use the internet to do all of this research rather than reading a book...

If you're truly a beginner, you might have better luck contacting your local extension service or master gardeners association: they should be able to provide details tailored to your region. And are generally just good people to know for any houseplant/gardening questions.