Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants

Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants

by David Squire
Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants

Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants

by David Squire

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Overview

Your complete guide to caring for houseplants!

  • User-friendly reference for every stage of indoor gardening, written by an expert horticulturist
  • 400 color photos of a wide variety of plants, step-by-step sequences, troubleshooting advice, and more
  • Achieve lasting success with flowering and fruiting plants, cacti, succulents, palms, cycads, bulbs, bromeliads, and ferns
  • Step-by-step instructions for selection, watering, feeding, presentation, repotting, grooming, propagation, and pest control
  • Comprehensive plant directory to more than 300 species with color identification photos, botanical and common names, and essential advice

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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620082331
Publisher: CompanionHouse Books
Publication date: 10/24/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 819,276
File size: 64 MB
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Age Range: 15 - 18 Years

About the Author

David Squire studied botany and horticulture at the Hertforshire College of Horticulture and the Royal Horticulture Society's Garden at Wisley, England, where he gained the Wisley Diploma in Hotriculture and was awarded an NK Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens. He has written more than 70 gardening books, which have been sold throughout the world and translated into several languages.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Looking After Houseplants

Know The Basics 6

Buying Houseplants 9

Pots, Saucers, and Cachepots 12

Potting Composts 14

Light and Warmth 17

The Need for Water 18

Humidity and Misting 22

Repotting Houseplants 24

Feeding 26

Grooming and Supporting 29

Houseplant Problems 34

Increasing Houseplants 40

Sowing Seeds 42

Taking Cuttings 45

Dividing 54

Layering 56

Houseplants From Plantlets 59

Houseplants From Runners 60

Part 2 Plant Directory

Foliage Plants 64

Flowering Houseplants 98

Flowering Potted Plants 114

Cacti and Other Succulents 132

Palms and Cycads 164

Bulbs 174

Bromeliads and Air Plants 184

Indoor Ferns 200

Glossary 212

Index 215

Photo Credits 223

About the Author 224

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