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"This book will help you keep your plants healthy."--Minneapolis
Star Tribune, 7 Books to Shake Up Your Home Decor Houseplants are
more popular than ever before--especially with millennials, who are
setting up their homes for the first time and discovering that
nothing can add energy, style, and that essential "lived-in-ness"
to their spaces better than a little bit of green. Whether it's a
statement-making fiddle-leaf fig or a tiny tabletop succulent, a
houseplant instantly elevates the look of your home. But where to
begin? In Decorating with Plants, Baylor Chapman walks readers
through everything they need to know to bring houseplants into
their home. First, there's Plant Care 101: from how to assess light
conditions to tricks for keeping your plants alive while on
vacation, Chapman gives readers the simple, foundational info they
need to ensure their plants will thrive. Then she introduces us to
28 of her favorites--specimens that are tough as nails but
oh-so-stylish, from the eye-catching Rubber Tree to the delicate
Cape Primrose. Finally, she guides readers through the home room by
room: Place an aromatic plant like jasmine or gardenia to your
entry to establish your home's "signature scent." Add a proper
sense of scale to your living room with a ceiling-grazing palm.
Create a living centerpiece of jewel-toned succulents for a dining
table arrangement that will last long after your dinner party. From
air purification to pest control, there's no limit to what
houseplants can do for your home--and Decorating with Plants is
here to show you how to add them to spaces big and small with
style.
Turn your indoors into a green oasis! Learn about 175 house plants
and follow step-by-step projects to create an indoor garden. A
plant book perfect for people who live in apartments and
enthusiastic gardeners who want to move their gardening expertise
inside! Learn how to create an indoor garden that will improve your
wellbeing, is good for the environment, and will bring tranquillity
to your home. The RHS Practical House Plant Book shows you how to
create a green home - literally. Inside this plant guide you'll
find: - A "Designing with Houseplants" section that reveals key
principles for choosing, arranging, and curating your houseplant
collection - More than 175 plant profiles that provide detailed
information and care instructions on a wide variety of plants,
including ferns, orchids, and succulents - Unrivalled practical,
illustrated information on plant care, propagation, pests and
diseases, pruning, and problem-solving - 12 photographic
step-by-step projects offer exciting ideas for using plants to
stunning effect in your home and conservatory Now you can display,
nurture, and care for plants even if you do not have garden space!
This RHS plant guide profiles the best indoor plants like ferns,
bamboo, orchards, cacti, and succulents. It includes information on
air-purifying plants to ensure easy breathing in your home. Author
and horticulturist Zia Allaway has combined her practical know-how
with Fran Brailey - London houseplant shop owner's - design
inspiration so that your indoor garden will enhance your home's
aesthetic. You will learn how to care for plants and cultivate
various species. Understand repotting, water, compost, draining,
pests, diseases, diagnosing sickly plants, and how to create good
light and temperature conditions. With over a dozen step-by-step
guides and profiles on 175 plants, you will assemble an
eye-catching bottle terrarium, craft your macrame hanging planter,
or propagate succulents for your friends in no time.
Growing plants in the home has always been popular, and in this volume interior and garden designer, Diana Yakeley, shows how to choose and position plants to create maximum impact, taking into account scale and proportion, form and shape, colour and scent, and texture and pattern.;There is also guidance on finding just the right containers and accessories to suit different plants and room schemes. A section on interiors looks at each room of the house in turn, revealing the best plants to create a striking focal point. The remaining chapters are a visual extravaganza of plant displays. Choose from the understated elegance of architectural plants, cacti and succulents or foliage plants in "Plant Sculpture", or indulge those creative urges with the section on "Colour". "Seasonal Displays" shows how to ring in the changes throughout the year, while "Edible Plants" explains how to grow herbs, salad leaves and tender fruits indoors. A useful section at the end of the book gives practical advice on how to care for indoor plants, while "Plant Focus" provides detailed horticultural information on a range of different plants.
The colorful, peculiar history of the houseplant-from ancient Rome
to Victorian England to Instagram-a botanical adventure full of
histrionic highs, devastating lows, and sensational turning points
along the way. From the hanging gardens of Babylon to that
fiddle-leaf fig in your living room, houseplants have been
humanity's companions for a millennia. Taming the Potted Beast
explores the history of our air-purifying friends with an
entertaining narrative of the peculiar, often dramatic story of the
cultivation and domestication of the not-so-humble houseplant.
Including entertaining historical vignettes, DIY plant projects,
and accessible tips and tricks for caring for your own historical
houseplant collection, this book has any plant-curious reader
covered. Readers will come away with practical projects, expert
advice, and an understanding of the historical significance of
houseplants as well as an appreciation of the cultures from which
they emerged. Both fascinating and fun, Taming the Potted Beast
will take readers on exhilarating botanical adventure through the
ages.
From the visual variety of foliage to the wide range of artfully
designed pots and planters, keeping houseplants is an addictive
hobby that's enjoying a renaissance in popularity. In Plant
Inspiration Frame-Ups, 50 beautifully illustrated affirmation cards
derive wisdom from the world of indoor plants, with each card
featuring clever plant-art interpretations of classic phrases.
"Don't be afraid to take up space" is juxtaposed with a monstrous
monstera plant engulfing a living room; "Take a moment to breathe"
features a collection of air plants suspended in hanging planters;
and "Create something" comes alive with an illustration of a spider
plant sprouting many pups. Bright, whimsical, and uplifting, these
cards call out to be displayed, and the Frame-Ups format makes it
easy to do just that. With a pull-out tabletop frame included, you
don't need to have a green thumb to display your favorite saying or
swap it out for another whenever you need fresh perspective.
Grow food for freshness. Grow food organically. Grow food to
connect with nature. Whatever the goal, you don't need a lot of
space to enjoy the benefits of homegrown veggies, herbs, and
fruits. In Grow Food at Home, gardening expert John Tullock shows
readers just how easy it is to enjoy "farm"-fresh produce grown
right on the windowsill, the porch, or in a tiny backyard. Covering
artificial lighting, hydroponics, vertical gardening, straw-bale
planters, and more, the book offers even the most confined
apartment dwellers plenty of options to get growing. Tullock shares
all the tips and tricks readers need to make small-space gardening
a success, with information on starting seeds, transplanting,
succession planting, "crop" rotation, and other procedures-all
tailored to the small-space garden-plus recipes to make the most of
the harvest. Readers will be energized to grow a mouth-watering
selection of micro-crops, from lettuces and herbs to tomatoes,
cucumbers, beets, and even small fruits-no matter how little room
they have available.
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A hands-on guide to transforming small urban spaces into lush,
plant-filled retreats. In Green, Jason Chongue explains and
simplifies how to curate and look after plants in small urban
spaces. He provides a practical and personal guide to creating
urban gardens and styling with plants, perfect for a range of
environments and climates, inside or out. From balconies, porches,
courtyards and small backyards to entryways, offices and living
spaces, this 'how to' guide is an approachable resource for
gardeners of all types. Chapters cover understanding your climate,
a plant maintenance calendar, curating a range of spaces and
appreciating plants in public spaces, as well as quick tips for
styling and plant care. Jason also invites 'Plant People' across
the globe to provide an insight into how people are inspired by
nature. Green is the perfect guide to small-space gardening,
beautifully photographed and illustrated, and will help you
transform your indoor and outdoor spaces into a lush, healthy oasis
in no time.
Whether it's driven by a passion for houseplants, a desire to grow
more tomatoes, or an interest in having a garden bursting with
colourful flowers, many people find themselves wanting more plants.
Luckily, it's easy to make more of your favourite plants - and it
can be done for free! Plant Parenting, by horticulture expert
Leslie F. Halleck, is a beginner-friendly introduction to plant
propagation through cuttings, layering, dividing, and more. Halleck
details the basic tools necessary, demystifies seed starting and
saving, and shares easy-to-follow instructions for the most
practical techniques. She also provides additional information on
controlling pests and diseases and transplanting seedlings and
cuttings. Charming, richly illustrated, and accessible, Plant
Parenting is for beginning gardeners, houseplant fans, and anyone
looking to make more of their favourite plants.
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."
Plants change working environments, adding a touch of nature and
style and improving the indoor climate. Through their form, colour
and type of growth, they represent a living design material.
Whether it is in an open-plan office, co-working space or employee
lounge, their positive effect on people is visible and tangible.
This book is targeted towards those who want to integrate plants
into their spatial concepts. With current examples of greenterior
design, artistic plant constellations and insights into the design
of plant pots, along with background knowledge from exemplary
projects and interior architecture with botany.
Live life in full bloom. This beautiful book features your
favourite flowers grouped by their purpose - for love, for joy, for
luck, for calm, to console, and to celebrate. Discover their
traditional meanings, holistic benefits, and when flowers are in
season so that they can be sourced locally with a minimal carbon
footprint. By creating thoughtful personal bouquets or choosing a
flower for its meaning, its natural energy, or holistic property,
you can bring the benefits of the natural world back into your
home, your workplace, and into the lives of loved ones. Find out
why you should give Foxgloves to celebrate a new job, Lilacs for
joy, or Chrysanthemums for luck, and become fluent in the secret
language of flowers.
It may be darker outside, but we can still enjoy the benefits of
nature - let Joe Sugg show you how in this essential guide to
fixing your relationship with the online world by bringing nature
inside For so long, we've all been drowning in an endless stream of
online content. NOW is the time to fix that - repair our
relationship with tech, learn to check into nature, and improve our
mental wellbeing. As one of the UK's first and biggest YouTube
stars, Joe Sugg knows this struggle all too well. And now he has
the solution: we need to bring nature inside. In GROW, he will
guide you through creative and practical ways to digitally detox
wherever you live, without throwing away your tech, featuring . . .
* Simple ways to reduce your screen time * A beginner's guide to
gardening - inside and out * Wildflowers and insects to look out
for in nature * The benefits of houseplants - and how not to kill
them * Personal stories from Joe's own journey * Beautiful
hand-drawn illustrations Grow immerses us in a truly restorative
journey that shows ways to balance our time online with the
outdoors, and grow happier, healthier and calmer by doing so.
Make your home your happy place with house plants. Bring the
outside in. This gorgeous guide features over 80 indoor plants that
will turn your house into a happy, healthy, healing home. Discover
plants that will clean the air you breathe, help you get a good
night's sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, help you get well soon,
boost your brain power and bring greater joy and wellbeing into
your life. From cacti and succulents to ferns and palms; flowering
plants and foliage - find the perfect house plants for your living
room, bathroom, bedroom and even your workspace. Bring the joy of
the outdoors in and harness the natural healing power of plants.
Features: Over 80 plants and their wellbeing benefits, A guide to
choosing your plants and pots, Essential care instructions (indoor
plants are so easy to look after!), and Simple propagation
techniques to share your plants with friends
Have trouble keeping house plants alive? Struggling to find your
green fingers? Fear not! You can still have a beautiful
plant-filled home with this stunning guide to indoor plants.
Whether you are looking to cultivate an entire indoor garden, or
simply wish to know more about your single cactus, you can be sure
to find the right information for you amongst the seventy-five
plants in this stylish guide. And the best bit? All the plants are
easy to maintain so even the most timid of gardeners can enjoy
turning their hand to this green-fingered pastime. Learn how to
care for succulents, cacti, flowering and foliage plants even with
a full-time job, with this unique gardening guide that is made to
fit alongside our modern-day schedules. With endless inspiration to
brighten up your home,desk or office, this beautiful book of plants
from across the world is a must for lovers of art and design, as
well as plants.
In today's world of technological advancements, political
polarization, the responsibilities of life and career, and the
unending world of social media chatter, many of us are stressed
out, inside all the time, and yearning for peace. After certified
horticulturalist and master pruner Karen Hugg discovered the
miraculous effects of peaceful planting on her own life, she
wondered whether these powerful benefits were limited to people who
had a garden. Can apartment dwellers heal from their stress with
either a small or no outdoor area? Is it possible to create a
soothing green space indoors with houseplants? And, for those who
are either physically unable or uninclined to grow plants, could
they benefit as well by mimicking a green space through photos and
decor? According to the growing amount of scientific research about
the healing effects of nature, the answer is yes. Leaf Your
Troubles Behind shows readers how to discover nature's healing
effects to reduce stress and increase happiness. This practical and
inspiring book puts forth the concept of "Green Leisure", an
original and approachable system for dialing into nature's healing
via seven basic destressing strategies. Composed of relatable
stories, insightful scientific research, and fun, easy-to-do
exercises for beginners and experts alike, this guide to
houseplants and their profound impact will be a refreshing oasis in
our mostly indoor world of work, school, and home where screens,
not nature, dominate our lives. Through stories, science, and
easily replicable exercises, Leaf Your Troubles Behind offers
detailed how-to advice on creating your own plant-oriented space to
unlock and maintain the power of nature at home.
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