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Jim Hole looks at locations and areas inside of your home and helps
you with the selection of great plants for a variety of indoor
locations and situations
An illustrated guide to the houseplants you need for clean and
fresh air when you're stuck at home How clean is the air you
breathe? Plants are the lungs of the earth: they produce the oxygen
that makes life possible, add precious moisture and filter toxins.
Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or
office with the same efficiency as a rainforest in our biosphere.
In this beautifully illustrated guide, noted scientist Dr Bill
Wolverton shows you how to grow 50 plants that filter the most
common pollutants, making it easy for you to purify the
environments that impact you the most.
A fun, gifty guide to growing and caring for the top 50
houseplants! Houseplants are more popular than ever: as expert
writer and gardening enthusiast Heather Rodino notes, "plants have
demonstrated therapeutic value, clean the air, and are an
affordable way of decorating, adding beauty to your home, and
making even the smallest rented space feel like your own." She
offers a lighthearted, colorfully illustrated overview of caring
for your indoor garden, profiling 50 of the most popular
houseplants, from the Boston fern and the fiddle-leaf fig to the
moth orchid. Her accessible advice on handling pests and diseases,
troubleshooting problems, and assessing your growing conditions,
will give novices the confidence they need to begin nurturing their
own collection. Tips and list detail everything from which plants
are pet-friendly to the top five plants for frequent travelers.
Hands up if you've killed a plant? Yep, me too. It's no secret that
we've all become plant obsessed, but do we really understand how to
look after them? I am not a Professor of Botany, but having run my
florist and plant shop, Grace & Thorn, since 2011 I've learnt a
few things along the way. HOW NOT TO KILL YOUR PLANTS is about
taking the hocus-pocus out of plants and flowers and enabling you
to understand a plant's needs in order to know where to place and
how to style them, but most importantly how to keep them alive. I
get asked every type of question you can imagine and I have written
this book to answer them. Watering can down, it's time to go back
to the roots. Keep it green. Nik x (AKA The Agony Plant)
Delving into all aspects of designing and maintaining unique
interior landscapes, this colorfully illustrated book demonstrates
how to realize landscapes for a variety of different interiors,
from private homes to corporate office buildings, and in styles
ranging from naturalistic to abstract. Photographic examples of the
authors own designs and the natural materials that inspired them
show how to construct an infrastructure and select the right plants
for different design themes, including jungles, deserts, gardens,
seasonal pieces, and sanctuaries and memorials. A plant index is
also included."
In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet
forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like
the racial uplift project, this cinema emphasized economic
self-sufficiency, education, and respectability as the keys to
African American progress. Field discusses films made at the
Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes to promote education, as well as
the controversial The New Era, which was an antiracist response to
D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. She also shows how Black
filmmakers in New York and Chicago engaged with uplift through the
promotion of Black modernity. Uplift cinema developed not just as a
response to onscreen racism, but constituted an original engagement
with the new medium that has had a deep and lasting significance
for African American cinema. Although none of these films survived,
Field's examination of archival film ephemera presents a method for
studying lost films that opens up new frontiers for exploring early
film culture.
The Green Indoors is a useful guide on how to find perfect plant
matches for your home environments with a sustainable and
innovative approach. Focussing on working with the plants you
already own, the book is divided in chapters detailing all the
possible conditions: Extreme Sun/Heat, Dry Air/Central Heating,
Deep Shade, High Humidity, Draughty, Cold. By matching awkward
spaces in your home with environments in the natural world, this
book shows you how to relocate plants to improve their growth and
help them thrive. Features an extensive section with informative
plant profiles that include their origin, easy-to-follow tips on
feeding and watering, optimum conditions, prospective growth, and
is concluded by a helpful troubleshooting chapter dealing with
common problems, and what to try when all hope is lost.
50 DIY crafts, cooking, decorating, and gardening projects from the
experts at the Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution
presents a uniquely curated collection of lively how-to projects
and historical narratives of four realms of American domestic arts:
cooking, crafts, decorating, and gardening. Perfect for hobbyists
interested in the historical context of what they create for their
homes, this beautifully illustrated book contains fifty DIY
projects-from a uniquely American quilt pattern to on-trend crafts
like terrarium making and pickling-that all offer satisfying ways
to bring history and culture to life. For those craving more,
features provide rare insights from Smithsonian experts on
prominent figures, events, and trends. Readers can learn about
influential Americans who've had an impact on each realm; look at
visual timelines of significant events that pushed development
forward; or stay in the present and see how American arts in
contemporary life is being redefined, all while enjoying satisfying
and unique projects.
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