A beginner's guide to house plants
Book - 2022
"A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants -- and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment. In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips, including: How to select the right plants for your spaces and lifestyle -- Practical advice on purchasing, potting and styling your plants -- How to care for many different types of plants--from succulents and ferns to exotics -- A mini field guide to over 60 popular plants you should know about -- And so much more! Cultivating house plants can be both creati...ve and fun! Plant expert Ryusuke Sakaino provides tips on how to use colors, textures, patterns and shapes to create a lush living space, with one plant or many. His gorgeous photos will inspire you to add greenery to every room in your home and office. No longer just a pandemic hobby, plants deserve to be a permanent part of your lifestyle!"--Publisher.
- Subjects
- Published
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North Clarendon, VT :
Tuttle Publishing
2022.
- Language
- English
Japanese - Main Author
- Item Description
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Physical Description
- 191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780804855099
- Why I Wrote This Book
- Part 1. Creating a Life with More Greenery
- Selecting Your Plants
- For Your First Plant, Choose Something Easy
- Choosing a Plant for Your Tabletop
- Looking for a "Symbol Tree"
- Keep the Shape of the Plant in Mind
- Pay Attention to Leaf Shape and Color
- What are Unusual "Exotic Plants"?
- Enjoying Aerial Roots and Fasciations
- Living with Succulents and Cacti
- Arranging Succulents
- Displaying Your Plants
- Have Fun looking for Pots and Containers
- Gather Plants Together in a Sunny Spot
- Decorative Shelves Can Create a Garden Look
- Keep Height Differences in Mind
- Creating Your "Dream Green" Interior
- Displaying Plants Like Pictures
- Balcony Gardening
- Various Ways to Display Air Plants
- Creating a Moss Terrarium
- Use Art Objects in Areas That Don't Get Sun
- Hanging Your Plants
- Hanging an Elkhorn Fern
- Using a Macramé Hanger
- Projects with Plants
- Making a Succulent Group Planting
- Making a Moss Terrarium
- Mounting an Elkhorn Fern onto a Board
- Adding a Label to a Plant
- Gardening Tools to Have on Hand
- Case Studies
- Living with Greenery (1) Teru Hamashima
- Living with Greenery (2) Ms. Rika
- Living with Greenery (3) Ms. Hana
- Part 2. 64 House Plants You'll Want in Your Life
- Part 3. Some Things You Need to Know
- Watering Basics
- Watering According to Plant Type
- Daily Care to Prevent Plants from Dying
- What Kind of Environments Do Plants Like?
- Fertilizing Your Plants
- Repotting Basics
- Repotting Step by Step
- Maintaining a Plant's Shape
- Q&A About Common Plant Problems
- Credits