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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"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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Include houseplants in your decorating to provide style, color, and texture to all the rooms of your home. Don’t know where to start? Complete Houseplants can make you an expert by supplying
• Complete growing and care information for all of the most popular species of houseplants
• Expert tips on displaying, fertilizing, watering, grooming, and propagating houseplants
• Over 480 color photos and illustrations
Jack Kramer is the author of over 100 books on gardening, including the World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids, as well as dozens of magazine articles. He has researched the growth habits of thousands of houseplants, including those in this book. He is a resident of Naples, Florida.
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A good effort but way too much space given in "how-tos"...,
By Breck Breckenridge (Spokane, Washington) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complete Houseplants: Featuring over 200 Easy-Care Favorites (Paperback)
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.
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Excellent!!,
By Tina (Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complete Houseplants: Featuring over 200 Easy-Care Favorites (Paperback)
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!
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Has an excellent section grouping houseplants by family that I have used many times. Well organized and very informative.
Whenever I review a purchase you show my address as Warrenton, VA. I now live in Louisa, VA where you have been sending my books for at least two years. But, there seems to be no way to edit that part of the review. There should be.
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growing houseplants, bromeliad family, ginger family, indoor conditions, purpose houseplant soil, feed quarterly, standard houseplant soil, feed every other watering, equal parts potting soil, lacy maidenhair fern, propagate new plants, grade fir bark, equal parts sharp sand, moist all year, bright location, goldfish plant, plant profiles, start new plants, humusy soil, purchase new plants, lipstick plant, drains readily, household temperatures, zebra plant, most houseplants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Various Families, South America, Propagating Houseplants, South Africa, Other Families, Aralia Family, Mulberry Family, Houseplant Containers, Gesneriad Family, Lily Family, Orchid Family, Central America, Begonia Family, Southeast Asia, Elements of Design, Choosing Houseplants, Aroids Family, Begonia Rex-Cultorum, Ming Aralia, Urn Plant, Foxtail Fern, Flamingo Flower, Butterfly Palm, Swiss Cheese Plant, Weeping Fig Browse Sample Pages:
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