The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-how for Keeping (Not Killing!) More Than 160 Indoor Plants
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It’s a whole new world of houseplants, so make yourself at home in it! If you love the idea of keeping houseplants, but struggle to care for them, you’ll find solace and invaluable advice in this comprehensive guide from expert gardener Barbara Pleasant. Even experienced houseplant enthusiasts will benefit from Pleasant’s expansive knowledge of indoor gardening, which includes personality profiles, growing needs, and troubleshooting tips for 160 blooming and foliage varieties. Create a greener world, one houseplant at a time. Read more
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC (November 8, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 163586660X
ISBN-13 : 05
Item Weight : 2.6 pounds
Dimensions : 7.63 x 0.78 x 10.63 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #178,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #42 in Ornamental Plant Gardening (Books) #42 in Container Gardening (Books) #75 in House Plant Gardening
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The title of this book is definitely telling the truth. I couldn't come up with any question for which I failed to find an answer. None of the information is too technical for the average house plant lover, and it is all easily accessible. The author begins her book with a brief introduction telling us how house plants benefit us, both physically and emotionally, followed by a useful plant identification guide. The greater part of the book is made up of three chapters covering blooming houseplants, foliage houseplants, and houseplant care. In the first two chapters the selected plants are illustrated with beautiful, large color photographs, and each one gets a description and a summary of it's needs in your home. Many also have troubleshooting guides. The final chapter gives readers a wealth of information and advice for keeping their house plants happy and healthy, with more photographs and helpful drawings. There are lots of cross-references in this section, so you are won't miss anything you might need to know about, such as all aspects of watering and drainage. The author ends with a glossary of houseplant terms, lists of plant suppliers and plant societies, a very useful cross reference between common and botanical names of plants, and an index to the book. This very complete guide to house plant care will be helpful to anyone who loves a house plant or a house full of plants, and I definitely recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2013 by Sheila Ary
This has been such a useful book on my houseplant journey. I have never been someone who could keep plants alive but suddenly at age 32 a switch went off and I am now a plant person. I am sure all of this information is available in some form online but it is so nice to have everything easily accessible in the same format for each plant and in bullet points. This book is pretty much a basic care encyclopedia. It has a lot of general plant care information including how to propagate all different kinds of plants to help you start your plant army. It also breaks down information by plant species to give more specifics on care. The information makes it super simple to make sure you are giving your new plat friend enough water, light, fertilizer, and humidity. It has what soil is best for each plant and tips for how to troubleshoot what is wrong with your plant. I reach for this book whenever I bring a new plant home and it has made me much more confident in my crazy plant lady adventure.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2020 by Paige C
Overall, this is a worthwhile book with plenty of good information on plant care, propagation, repotting, soil types and most everything else a houseplant enthusiast would want to know. The photos give a good representation of each plant featured. One criticism is that typically only one representative plant of each genus covered is shown and specifically detailed in the text, so if the reader does not appreciate that particular representative, he or she would not know to look at other plants in that genus, which could be more pleasing to the reader's taste. A second point is that after I bought this book I purchased The House Plant Expert by D.G. Hessayon. This is an older book that nevertheless covers more plants and also fixes my previous criticism; there are lots more plants pictured. I would note that generally speaking I do not believe in hard and fast rules for taking care of specific plants. For anyone new to houseplants, there are bound to be failures and Pleasant's book will tell the reader what things to look for to solve plant problems, but trial and error is the best teacher. I also suggest The New Plant Parent by Darryl Cheng for explanation of the relationship between light, temperature and watering.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019 by "Ginger Peach"
Love this book. I borrowed it from the library and realized I needed to own it.
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024 by M. C.
I liked this "survival manual" because it is practical and useful. It is NOT a picture book about how to create attractive interiors with plants. It is a growing guide to 160 specific house plants or plant types with specific information about each plant's needs, soil, longevity, and propagation as well as troubleshooting for common problems. Each plant gets a 2-page spread with a great photo and consistent format. At the end are basic growing tips relevant to all house plants. The book helped me pick out plants that would thrive at my house and also helped me address some problems I was having with existing plants.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2021 by Kris Abrahamson
Tells you all you need to know to have successful houseplants: how houseplants earn their keep, individual information on 160 different plants, sensibly grouped by whether they bloom or not, and good advice on how to care for your plants. Provides knowledgeable advice missing in other books like the pretty but expensive, vacuous, and heavily-reliant-on-whitespace : for example, I think most people after transplanting or repotting a houseplant would give it water. Pleasant tells us don’t water newly transplanted or repotted plants for a few days to let the wounded roots wall off their injuries and to signal the healthy roots to spread out to seek water (p. 313), while Steinkopf and others leave it up us to find out the hard way that watering your newly potted plant too early promotes only root rot, not new growth.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018 by ohthatpaul
I love houseplants. I have not always been good at keeping them. If you have no intuition for plants in general, then this book is a great guide to walk you through every aspect of caring for a plant. Not just a generic one-size-fits-most example of a plant- but the exact plant species you are working with. Not sure what a certain discoloration means? Look it up for your specific plant so there is no confusion. Curious if a pest-control method is safe? Depends on the plant, and this book will tell you. If you have no plant experience this book will explain everything from how and when to water, to the best ways to repot and what a cachepot is. If you are pretty comfortable with plants, I still think the plant-specific troubleshooting is a godsend.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017 by Ayl