Houseplants For All: How to Fill Any Home with Happy Plants

by Danae Horst

Overview

Danae Horst's Houseplants for All is a beautiful guide to selecting and growing the right plants for your home, complete with a plant profile quiz!

Turn over a new leaf with Houseplants for All, and actually keep all your plant babies happy and healthy. Use the plant profile quiz to easily find your perfect match instead of picking up whatever catches your eye at the store and hoping that it'll survive your home and lifestyle. Whether you're always busy and can't remember to water, get unobstructed natural light all day, or live in the shadow of a skyscraper, a tropical oasis or arid winter-land, there is a plant that'll thrive with you.

After finding the right plants for your home, this book will help you to master plant care, complete with projects and tips for which containers work best, the best plants for small places, how to live together with pets and plants, and solutions to problems like pests, root rot, and lack of nutrients. Whether you're an experienced plant parent or have never owned anything other than a fake ficus, this book is the perfect guide for happy plants in your home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780358379942
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	08/11/2020
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	228,640
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

DANAE HORST has a background as an interior photo stylist, photographer, and editorial director and plant care columnist at Jungalow studio. She founded the Los Angeles–based plant boutique and plant styling studio, Folia Collective, which has been named one of the 30 Cutest Plant Shops Around the World by The Venue Report.

Editorial Reviews

06/01/2020

Horst, owner of the Los Angeles “plant styling studio” Folia Collective, offers an encouraging if basic guide to using plants as home decor. Her central suggestion is “styling with the plants in mind,” based on her own experience; after years of being an enthusiastic but “black-thumbed” plant owner, Horst had a “breakthrough” after choosing “plants based on what they needed rather than just how I wanted my home to look.” Stressing the need to realistically assess light (“the most essential need”) and humidity levels in one’s house, Horst helps readers select which of five possible “environment profiles” their home falls into, with specific plant recommendations for each—for bright and sunny spaces, for instance, she recommends a Monstera deliciosa, or split leaf philodendron, and for “lower light spaces,” an Asplenium, or bird’s nest fern. She gives guidance on topics including propagation, “a great way to share plants you love with friends and family,” and on styling points such as choosing planters (she advises sticking to a restricted color palette, and varying container shape and size “to avoid the matchy-matchy vibe”). Horst’s accessible primer will resonate with Instagrammers interested in creating lush backdrops, if not more dedicated horticulturalists. (Aug.)

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