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

Peerless, Veronica

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 024130217X ISBN 13 : 9780241302170

Editeur : DK, 2017

Synopsis

You had one job: watering your new plant. But it's been a week and it's already dying.

Fear not! This helpful guide is here to show you how to rescue your plants. Follow the survival tips outlined in this book and you'll be on your way to having your home brimming with green life.

It's absolutely possible not to assassinate your houseplant - all you need is this book! From identifying exactly what's in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow, this is your guide to creating an oasis of happy, flourishing houseplants.

With over 50 different types of popular houseplants, this book summarises what type of care your plants do (or don't) need. Find out which types of plant will thrive in your living space. You'll also discover how to keep a cactus alive, where to hang air plants, and how to repot succulents. Understand how much light, water, heat, and humidity your plant needs, whatever your horticulture woes, this book will explain and fix it.

Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, learn to spot the danger signs and how to take the proper action to rescue your sick plant. Packed with helpful tips, pictures, and information panels, How Not to Kill Your Houseplantwill equip you with the skills necessary to raise a healthy plant.

Give Your Plants a Chance!

If you're horticulturally challenged and can't keep a house plant alive to save your life, then this book is for you! This practical guide to raising indoor plants equips you with the know-how you need to care for your plants.

Inside the pages of this comprehensive gardening book, you'll discover:
- Tips on watering and feeding plants.
- Advice on how to choose the perfect house plants for your unique space and needs.
- Helpful survival tips and simple ways not to kill your plants.
- Everything you need to know about lighting for house plants, from natural to artificial lighting sources.
- Learn to spot the danger signs in unhealthy indoor plants and the effective techniques on how to rescue them.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Veronica Peerless is a trained horticulturalist and garden designer and an experienced writer and editor. She is currently Commissioning Content Editor at Gardens Illustrated, having previously worked as a content producer at www.gardenersworld.com and as deputy editor at Which? Gardening. She has contributed to publications including The English Garden, Garden Design Journal and Telegraph Gardening. She was horticultural consultant on The Gardener's Year, also published by DK.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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. If you wonder what the crispy bits at the leaf edges are, why the stalks are looking spindly, or why your plant looks brown even though you've watered it, How Not to Kill Your Houseplant will explain - and fix - your horticultural woes. Understand how much light, water, heat, and humidity your plant needs with quick tips on what your houseplant does and doesn't like. Learn to spot the danger signs and how to rescue an unhealthy plant, and follow easy advice to pick the top plants for your bathroom, cold rooms, desk, and windowsill to create your own indoor oasis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: DK
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 024130217X
• ISBN 13: 9780241302170
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: DK; https://www.dk.com/us/; ; The Lego Group; Billund; Billund ; Dk7190; Danemark