Reader's Digest Book of Houseplants: Year-round Indoor Gardening
- ISBN-10
- 0276429753
- ISBN-13
- 9780276429750
- Category
- House plants
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Association
- Author
- Reader's Digest Association
Description
Plants can be a real feature of your home, and this book shows you how, with masses of inspiring suggestions for displaying your plants to best effect, from indoor window boxes and window recesses to using plants as room dividers, bottle gardens and terraria. You'll also find lots of detailed, practical information on caring for your houseplants, with illustrated step-by-step instructions on selecting plants and containers, creating the right conditions, watering, pruning, dealing with pests and diseases, and much more. The Plant Selector displays a range of over 100 houseplants, arranged by plant type and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs. Finally, there's a selection of quick and easy-to-achieve projects which show you how to make the most of your plants, and include decorating pots, creating a kitchen garden, seasonal displays, growing orchids and more. With this book you can make the most of your indoor garden throughout the year and create a delightful display of plants.
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