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Houseplant Handbook
Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants- Regular price
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"Grow a garden inside! Houseplants bring life and color to any room, and with the right care you can successfully cultivate everything from succulents and bonsai to foliage, flowers, and fruit. Here is everything you always wanted to know about houseplants packed into one easy-to-use volume. Horticulturist David Squire provides simple, step-by-step instructions on choosing the right plants and helping them thrive, with tips on propagation, repotting, grooming, and pest control. The heart of the book is a well-illustrated plant directory that offers a fresh perspective on more than 300 popular varieties, arranged by houseplant families. Each entry features a color photograph for identification; the plant’s botanical and common names; its height, spread, optimum climate and light; and propagation tips. Other essential information on feeding, watering, and grooming is covered in a handy quick reference icon panel. Inside The Houseplant Handbook: Complete guide to caring for houseplants, written by an expert horticulturist. User-friendly reference, rich in practical advice on every stage of indoor gardening. Explains how to achieve lasting success with flowering and fruiting plants, cacti, succulents, palms, cycads, bulbs, bromeliads, and ferns. Step-by-step instructions on selection, watering, feeding, presentation, repotting, grooming, propagation, and pest control. Comprehensive Plant Directory covers
Details
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Pages | 224 |
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Publish Date | 2017-10-24 |
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Size | 7.0" x 9.0" x 0.51" |
Author | David Squire |
Reviews
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Texas Gardener Magazine
Plenty of key practical advice informs David Squire's Houseplant Handbook. —Texas Gardener Magazine
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Parade
The Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants is everything that its name suggests. Chock full of basic and more advanced indoor gardening techniques; The Houseplant Handbook gives you everything you need to grow a healthy, prolific, eye
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Permaculture en climate froid
This book is a gem! It is beautiful, filled with quality pictures and tricks to have a green oasis in your home.
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Grow a Garden Inside Your Home!
Watering and Feeding
Humidity and Misting (pictured), Repotting Houseplants, Feeding, Grooming and Supporting, Houseplant Problems
Increasing Houseplants
Sowing Seeds, Taking Cuttings, Dividing, Layering, Houseplants from Plantlets, Houseplants from Runners
Plant Directory
Foliage Plants (pictured), Flowering Houseplants, Flowering Potted Plants, Cacti and Other Succulents, Palms and Cycads, and more!
About the Author
David Squire has a lifetime's experience with plants, both cultivated and native types. He studied botany and gardening at the Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley, Surrey where he gained the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. Throughout his gardening and journalistic careers, David has written more than 80 books on plants and gardening. He has a wide interest in the uses of native plants for eating, survival, medicine, folklore and culture customs
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