Complete Houseplant Book

Expert advice on choosing the best plant for the different rooms in your home, with a guide to 350 species, and practical care and maintenance.

This title helps you in identifying, choosing and maintaining plants for your home, with an A-Z directory and over 600 photographs. It helps you in choosing plants for all the different settings in your home: house-plants for the hall, porch, bathroom, bedroom, living room, kitchen and more. It offers step-by-step advice on watering, feeding and choosing the right container, as well as instructions on division, layering, cuttings and other propagation techniques. It includes an A-Z directory of house-plants, featuring over 350 of the most popular and reliable species. There is an enormous variety of house-plants available, and this guide offers expert advice on choosing the best ones and creating an environment in which they will thrive. The book includes glossy evergreens, feathery ferns, elegant palms and beautiful flowering plants. There is information about choosing the right containers, feeding and watering, potting and pruning, dealing with problems, and easy ways to propagate house-plants. An A-Z directory features over 350 species, and offers hints and tips on routine care and maintenance.The book is both a reference guide and a practical handbook for all those who want to make the house-plants of their house-plants.