How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what's in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow. Keep pests away Pests like spider mites, mealybugs, and scale insects can wreak havoc on your plants. Detailed spreads on popular and well-adapted indoor plants follow, with occasional lists ("Top 5 Plants for Your Bathroom"; "Top 5 Plants for Your Desk") featured throughout.

By choosing the right plant, watering properly, providing the right amount of light, keeping your plants clean, providing proper ventilation, keeping pests away, and repotting when necessary, you can ensure that your houseplants thrive and add beauty to your home for years to come. You'll also discover how to keep a cactus alive, where to hang air plants, and how to repot succulents. You’ll know how much light to give them, how much heat and humidity they need, how often to water them, and even where to put them. If you're the first type of person (at this point in time) you simply won't care for your houseplants properly in the long term.Dotted throughout the plant profiles are suggestions for locations such as the desk, sunny spots, bathrooms, etc. Anyway, for the most part, this was a fantastic intro into plant care and will hopefully help me keep my new set of plants alive for a good long time. Check out the how-to for this Bok Choy that has miraculously sprung from the ashes at 17 Apart or browse through the assortment of plants you can regrow here.

This is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what’s in the pot to keeping it in check when it grows too well! I’ve been browsing through this book for over a year now and it’s finally safe to say I have read it from cover to cover multiple times and can definitely recommend it to beginner houseplant caretakers. How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is aimed towards newbies, but it also included tricks that were new to me, such as how to save an overwatered plant by wrapping its soil in newspaper.Turns out I was clueless about what plants need to survive, and the little care cards that come with your plant at Home Depot just aren't good enough. The pages are bright, colorful and packed with pictures, and the information is dense yet user-friendly and uncluttered. My wife loves having houseplants, and we've spent an ungodly amount of money over the years on the little potted beauties, only to see them all suffer the same fate as a result of their horticulturally challenged parents. Everything you need to know about lighting for house plants, from natural to artificial lighting sources.

Avoid this by standing plants on a saucer filled with pebbles and water, which will provide a nice, humid environment for them. Water your plant as usual and you’ll see how any excess water escapes through the drainage holes at the bottom of your pot.For example, sometimes it says something like "water moderately during the spring and summer and water more sparingly in the winter.

The photographs are gorgeous and if you're anything like me, once you adopt one plant you'll find yourself going back for more. This new edition of Propagating Plants contains hundreds of step-by-step tutorials making it your go-to guide for clear and instructive propagation advice. And the right margin has pictures of 1 or 2 plants with very similar care, which therefore don’t need their own full-page explanation (for example: kentia palm, parlor palm and butterfly palm are all in the same page).This will be a handy reference book to keep around, but it was also enjoyable to flip through and read about each plant!