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Complete Houseplants: Featuring over 200 Easy-Care Favorites

Complete Houseplants: Featuring over 200 Easy-Care Favorites
By Jack Kramer

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Complete Houseplants provides homeowners with all the information they need to incorporate plants in the interior design of their homes. The book covers the basics of choosing the right plants for the home, selecting  containers, and plant arranging. Sections on proper care and lighting will help homeowners enjoy heathy, beautiful houseplants for years. But the heart of the book are the 250 plant profiles, with 50 of those profiles new to this edition. Each profile gives tips for successful care, including light, watering, and fertilizing requirements.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #250820 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-04-24
  • Released on: 2008-06-02
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 224 pages

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"Highlighted by more than 550 color photographs and illustrations, a comprehensive resource covers everything one needs to know to incorporate plants into one's home design..."
 
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May 2008

About the Author

Jack Kramer is the author of more than 100 gardening books, including The World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids and Women of Flowers, which won the Garden Writers Association of America's "Best Book" Award of Excellence. His many magazine credits include Horticulture, House Beautiful, Family Circle, and Architectural Digest. Widely known for cultivating and writing about houseplants, he was uniquely qualified to grow and supervise the photography of the plants profiled in this book.

Customer Reviews

Excellent!!5
Fantastic pictures, complete care information, and a wide variety of houseplants make this book wonderful. It will aid the novice or the pro at water, light, humidity, propagation, and much more. It was my first houseplant book and I wouldn't go without it!

Good resource.5
Great reference for selection, care and maintenance for those of us with hort degrees, and those without.

A good effort but way too much space given in "how-tos"...2
I've been trying to find a good comprehensive book on indoor plants that is at least the equal of my old standby, Foliage Plants for Decorating Indoors by Mr. and Mrs. Elberts (1989, Timber Press)[q.v.]. That book gives info on each plant from the direct knowledge of the authors and as a result has proved to be the best tropical houseplant book bar none, thus far. They give personal observations, recommendations, etc. Whereas 19 out of 20 such books have the usual set of short paragraphs with pedestrian info (i.e. dimensions, temperatures, light requirements, etc.). The Elberts also cover a goodly number of varieties and cultivars one is likely to encounter.

This book, Complete Houseplants (what an original title), is by Jack Kramer, who has been writing plant books longer than many of you have been alive. And he does know his plants. I just wish this was "complete" in the sense of giving in depth info on each species and its cultivars, like my Elberts book does. Instead over half the book is given over to the usual general info on containers, propagation, decorating "tips", how to grow plants, ad nauseam. Then on page 108 we finally get to THE PLANTS. Here there is much wasted space on each page. Admittedly the photos are illustrative for the most part, although the lighting by the photographer seems to be on the dark side, or is that the fault of the printer? The actual text treating each species is way too brief. This is not "complete"; if anything this is a quick, brief guide to "over 240 easy-care favorites".

On second thought I'd give it two stars.