Product Description

• Extensive encyclopedia features 275 houseplants, including new plant introductions

• Step-by-step information on houseplant culture, care, and propagation

• Inspiration and design ideas for decorating tastefully with plants

• A special section addresses seasonal plants for patio and deck containers

• Gives readers thorough, top quality advice they can use immediately

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #554252 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-06
• Released on: 2004-01-06
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
Plants add life and beauty to your home's decor. Ortho's Complete Guide to Houseplants explains how to evaluate the light, temperature, and humidity to choose the best plants for your home. Colorful photographs complement easy step-by-step instructions on how to water, fertilize, and care for your indoor plants and container gardens. The gallery provides detailed growing instructions for flowering and foliage houseplants. Page 20 How to Grow Step-by-step guide to watering, fertilizing, and care Page 55 Propagation Easy techniques to start new plants Page 73 Container Gardens Tips for decorating with plants in containers Page 123 Page 157 Page 148 Plant Selection Comprehensive growing guide for more than 150 houseplants.

Customer Reviews

Great overview book!
As a novice gardener I've perused a lot of books and usually they're either really wordy, use terms that a college professor might, or just don't quite have what I need. This book is a really nice overview of everything related to indoor gardening, with lots of photos to explain what they're talking about or doing. I especially love a photographic section on plant problems, diseases and bugs - a lot of the books out there 'explain' what to look for while this one actually shows an afflicted plant. I recommend this book for anyone who's looking to get further into the indoor plants (without actually looking for a degree...).

Great beginner's book
As a very novice gardener, I needed a book that covered the basic of houseplant care. Well, this is it. I especially like the fact that it is full of color photos.

The first third of this book is dedicated to plant care: light, water, temperature, air, humidiry, potting, propagation, etc.

The last two third is the Galery of Houseplants, which lists lots of plants, how to care for them. I was able to find all the plants I already had in my house, and even found ones that I had no idea what they were.

great for novice plant lovers
I bought the book in hopes of learning how to properly maintain my houseplants. There was a wealth of information and simple easy to understand language!