Handbook home house plant rd series

He also shows you how to take every type of cutting imaginable. These include stem-tip cuttings, leaf-stem cuttings, leaf-petiole cuttings, whole leaf cuttings, leaf-square cuttings, leaf-triangle cuttings, cross-leaf cuttings, horizontal cane cuttings, vertical cane cuttings, cactus cuttings and small-leaved succulent cuttings. Janet Peace, Hot Tomato Communications. Squire also covers when and how to divide houseplants. He includes a list of houseplants suitable for dividing.

He also explains how and when to air-layer —including the plants that are good to air-layer. And he ends this section with making new plants from houseplants that create runners and plantlets, like the indoor air-cleaning dynamo, spider plant. These include ingenious ideas such as using capillary matting or wicking. He also gives advice for where to place your plants before you leave home —such as away from drafty, drying areas and out of direct sunlight.

Complete with color photos of each plant and their descriptions and growth habits, the guide also gives you important growing advice. Squire also shares the propagation technique for each plant. All in all, a thorough houseplant guide. Grow Dieffenbachia. Grow Low Light Plants. Healthy Houseplants. Plant of the month. ZZ Plant Tops the Charts.

Chinese Evergreen Decorates Your Indoors. Fiddle-Leaf Fig. Decorate for the Holidays with Christmas Cactus. Boston Fern: Growing Nephrolepis exaltata. Brighten Your Indoors with Croton. Split-Leaf Philodendron. Add a Dab of Color with Lipstick Plant. Venus flytrap. African Violet. Corn Plant. Jade Plant. These house plant books will have your plants thriving in no time. Read on!

This book will show you how to make your succulents the envy of your likewise overbooked friends. You, too, can have a tiny tree in your home! This book will coach you through the basics branch by branch, root by root, and leaf by teeny tiny leaf. This book knows. Let no more of your plant friends perish because you have not read this book!

Seeds, grow lights, special soil, fancy pots—where does it end? Right here, friends! This book will show you how to grow a delicious indoor garden from lettuce ends, onion scraps, and random bits of garlic. Picking the right plant is essential, not just to your decor and lifestyle, but to the happiness of the plant in question.

This book will guide you through the process of finding your soul plant. The first step toward improvement is to embrace the fact that you done screwed up. Plants ARE friends! They improve your mental health and your air quality, they force you into a comfortable routine of care and attention, and they generally rock. Let this book introduce you to the magical world of plant care. If you give a plant the proper amounts of water, food, and sunlight, they can absolutely love you back. This book will show you all the secrets of the house plant heart and show you how to win it over forever.

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