Indoor Gardens: Fresh ideas for growing beautiful plants indoors (Better Homes & Gardens) [Paperback]

Better Homes and Gardens Books (Author), Cathy Barash (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Better Homes & Gardens | Publication Date: August 15, 2001

Bring the pleasure of nature inside as you decorate your home with fragrance and color, improve the air quality, and create living works of art year-round with the fresh ideas in Indoor Gardens, published by Better Homes and Gardens (R).

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Look to Better Homes and Gardens (R) Indoor Gardens for a fresh approach to gardening indoors year-round. Discover how to use plants to decorate your home, improve the air quality, and create living works of art. Develop your green thumb by coaxing cuttings on a windowsill. Enjoy fragrant blooms and herbs in a garden room. Make impressive tabletop gardens. No matter what your skill level, we show you how to design and maintain a collection of foliage and flowering plants, including your favorite houseplants.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens (August 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0696212552
• ISBN-13: 978-0696212550
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,348,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of ideas and basic houseplant info, March 19, 2005

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Melissa Kaye (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Indoor Gardens: Fresh ideas for growing beautiful plants indoors (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)

I have several books on houseplants, but this one is a little bit different. Other houseplant books are an "encyclopedia" of the different kinds of plants and also includes information on care, propagation, etc. This particular book doesn't go into detail on very many specific plants, so if that's what you are looking for, I would suggest "The House Plant Encyclopedia" by Jantra/Kruger or John Evans's "The Complete Book of Houseplants".

However, this is one of my favorite houseplant books. Although it contains information on care and propagation, it contains lots of ideas for arranging plants and making small gardens. The gardens it covers include:

Tabletop gardens
Ivy Topiaries
Orchids
Holiday Plants
Forcing bulbs
Windowsill gardens
Seasonal Gardens
Plant Collections
Exotic and Artful
Tropicals
Decorating with Plants

Since the book is a "Better Homes and Gardens" publication, it also includes plenty of photos of rooms with plants and flowers. I thought I was running out of room for more houseplants, but some of the rooms they show have quite a number of plants and are truly "Indoor Gardens". I think those rooms are inspiring because plants can really bring a room to life and make it comfortable unlike anything else.

If you want to add some indoor gardens to your house, I recommend this book. It will give you ideas other than just sticking your plant in a pot and sitting it in the window!

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars indoor gardens, September 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Indoor Gardens: Fresh ideas for growing beautiful plants indoors (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)

Offered only generic info but the photos were eyecatching.