Houseplant Handbook
ebook ∣ Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants
By David Squire
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Your complete guide to caring for houseplants!
Houseplants bring life and color to any room. With the right care you can successfully cultivate anything from succulents and bonsai to foliage, flowers, and fruit!
Houseplant Handbook contains everything you always wanted to know about houseplants, packed into one easy-to-use volume. Inside this book, 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. Handy quick reference icon panels provide each species' required summer and winter temperature, watering and fertilizing needs, and grooming tips.
This user-friendly reference is rich in practical advice on every stage of indoor gardening. Grow a garden inside, with Houseplant Handbook!
"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-catching indoor garden."
—Parade