A Beginner's Guide to House Plants: Creating Beautiful and Healthy Green Spaces in Your Home

by Ryusuke Sakaino

Overview

The healthier your plants, the happier you'll feel!

A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy—to—maintain plants — and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well—being by greening your environment.

In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips, including:

• How to select the right plants for your spaces and lifestyle
• Practical advice on purchasing, potting and styling your plants
• How to care for many different types of plants—from succulents and ferns to exotics
• A mini field guide to over 60 popular plants you should know about
• And so much more!

Cultivating house plants can be both creative and fun! Plant expert Ryusuke Sakaino provides tips on how to use colors, textures, patterns and shapes to create a lush living space, with one plant or many. His gorgeous photos will inspire you to add greenery to every room in your home and office. No longer just a pandemic hobby, plants deserve to be a permanent part of your lifestyle!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804855099
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	08/23/2022
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ryusuke Sakaino runs Ayanas, an ornamental plant shop in Takasaki City, Japan, dedicated to introducing people to plants which make their lives more vibrant. He provides design services and advice on indoor and outdoor landscaping, with the goal of creating a healthy green environment that is in harmony with the surrounding architecture and the people who use it.

Table of Contents

Why I Wrote This Book 7

Part 1 Creating a Life with More Greenery

Selecting Your Plants 14

For Your First Plant, Choose Something Easy 16

Choosing a Plant for Your Tabletop 18

Looking for a "Symbol Tree" 20

Keep the Shape of the Plant in Mind 22

Pay Attention to Leaf Shape and Color 24

What are Unusual "Exotic Plants"? 26

Enjoying Aerial Roots and Fasciations 28

Living with Succulents and Cacti 32

Arranging Succulents 34

Displaying Your Plants 36

Have Fun looking for Pots and Containers 38

Gather Plants Together in a Sunny Spot 46

Decorative Shelves Can Create a Garden Look 48

Keep Height Differences in Mind 50

Creating Your "Dream Green" Interior 52

Displaying Plants Like Pictures 54

Balcony Gardening 56

Various Ways to Display Air Plants 58

Creating a Moss Terrarium 62

Use Art Objects in Areas That Don't Get Sun 64

Hanging Your Plants 68

Hanging an Elkhorn Fern 72

Using a Macramé Hanger 74

Projects with Plants

Making a Succulent Group Planting 76

Making a Moss Terrarium 78

Mounting an Elkhorn Fern onto a Board 80

Adding a Label to a Plant 82

Gardening Tools to Have on Hand 84

Case Studies

Living with Greenery (1) Teru Hamashima 88

Living with Greenery (2) Ms. Rika 94

Living with Greenery (3) Ms. Hana 100

Part 2 64 House Plants You'll Want in Your Life 106

Part 3 Some Things You Need to Know

Watering Basics 176

Watering According to Plant Type 177

Daily Care to Prevent Plants from Dying 179

What Kind of Environments Do Plants Like? 180

Fertilizing Your Plants 182

Repotting Basics 182

Repotting Step by Step 184

Maintaining a Plant's Shape 185

Q&A About Common Plant Problems 186

Credits 189