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I love plants, even if it seems that I have a black thumb. There are information about some kinds of plant and a lot of craft ideas.
It's a lovely book, but too short in my opinion.

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This is a great beginners guide to growing and potting house plants within your home and how to keep them. There are some unique projects and ideas within this book and its given me some great ideas to do within my own home.

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As many people, in 2020 I started to having plants on my house, but i have no idea about which ones would work, and which cars they need, so this books was really handy in this department.

To be fair,not all survive, but with time i get better with this things

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This is a cute and helpful book of houseplant tips and projects. Many of the easy-to-grow houseplant recommendations will be familiar to those interested in houseplants, but many of the tips and projects were completely new ideas to me. I will be trying out a few new types of plants as soon as I can find them!

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a temporary digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

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I enjoyed this book. I am new to the love of plants. Beautiful pictures and very informative. Also, will make a very nice gift for a plant lover.

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I love houseplants and try my best to help them all thrive. This book was really helpful, lots of great tips!

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I loved Steinkopf's book Grow in the Dark that came out in 2019, and this book is another hit. This would be a great book for beginners, but intermediate houseplant parents will find lots of good information here as well. The book starts out with a chapter on the best plants for your living space, with a suggested list of sixteen plants and a brief rundown on each plant, followed by a chapter on caring for your plants. You'll find useful tips on light, containers, propagation, watering, fertilizing, and more. Then we get to the fun stuff- fifteen projects and crafts you can make with and/or for your plants! My new goal is to create a marimo moss ball aquarium, and add a betta fish to it! This is a great book for crafty individuals who would like to have happy, healthy houseplants.

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Full of fun ideas of how to incorporate your crafty hobbies with your plants. The different projects in Houseplant Party range from the very easy and quick ones to the more involved and time-consuming projects, but all designed for you to have more fun with your plans and give you great ideas for showing them off in new and fun ways.

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Houseplant Party was a cute book filled with information on caring for all types of plants perfect for your home. A lot of the plants included were common finds, but I did learn about a few plants that I can’t wait to go pick up!

Houseplant Party was a good combination of common sense information, such as plants need light and water and more in depth information, like understanding fertilizers. It also included diy projects to enhance your plants! I’m excited to try making a t-shirt plant hanger and a wooden plant trellis.

This would be a great read for new plant owners, but for more advanced plant people it might be a little repetitive. Although, the diy projects may make it worth it for more advanced planters.

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Houseplant Party by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf is a fun book about bringing the outdoors into your home. This book starts off with a brief history of house plants and then breaks up into three sections. The sections are types of plants (although you learn of a few more throughout the book,) care, and crafting projects.

I learned of a few new house plants, but most of the plants listened I already knew about to varying degrees. There are a few I have wanted to try in my house and the extra knowledge and insight were extremely helpful. The caring section is pretty basic if you have even a little experience with indoor plants or succulents. The last section was the part I loved the most, the crafts!

The craft section has so many ideas and introduces us to a few new house plants in the process. While I haven’t tried any yet, I found some of the instructions and photos more straight forward than others. I would have preferred more photos when it came to crafts involving knots.

There was a little bit about propagation, but I wish a lot more of it had been covered. Another topic I would have liked to have seen covered were house plants that need much lower light to almost no light.

I received an advanced reader copy from Quarto Publishing Group- Cool Springs Press through NetGalley. All opinions are 100% my own.

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I really appreciated all the tips for the most common house plants. The craft projects at the back were not as useful and I would have liked a little more on cuttings and propagation.

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As someone who loves houseplants but can't seem to keep them alive, I find this guide to be approachable and full of helpful tips. There are suggestions for the best types of plants for your space, how to water, how to improve flowering, and more. Lots of color photography that will make you want to redecorate your house or apartment and make more room for plants!

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This is a fabulous book, simple plant to grow, easy to make accessories and really good information explained simply. I grow a lot of the plants that are mentioned in this book, I grew them in the 70s and find their revival today not surprising, all are bomb proof plants and all look fabulous in the home.
In this book there is a section in easy propagation and various crafty ways of enhancing and displaying these plans. a fabulous book for both the new and experienced indoor plant grower.

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A good beginner overview of houseplants. I like that the narrow focus on just a few easy to grow houseplants with descriptions and general houseplant care tips. I wasn't as impressed with the projects which take up 2/3 of the book. I've explored the author's website for more tips and information on houseplants.

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Houseplant Party is a lovely book. fairly simple, so perfect for a relatively inexperienced "plant parent" like me. It has lovely pictures, and would, in paper form, make a great gift. it gave me a bit more confidence around my plant care. If I have one criticism it is that it is a bit too Instagram ready and a bit too apolitical - at one point the book mentions GMO plants and that it's illegal to sell clippings from them and I squirmed at the idea of a corporation being able to own a plant in that sense, but pretty plants and decorating your house is the point of this book, not tearing down capitalism and starting the revolution.

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The information in this book will set you up with the basics for caring for some fun plants. I learned alot fromt he information. The pictures helped me understand which plants i was seeing at the store and what envrionment they are best cared for in. I disagreed on the part about a betta tank. I think a 5 gallon or higher is appropriate for a tank that needs the water changes as it said anything smaller would need completely almost daily changes which can stress the fish. I thought the craft projects for the plants looked fun and easy to do yourself. I enjoyed reading through and learning about the plants as well as thinking creatively with what you could do with them. I really enjoyed the book and I think it will be very useful for others especially when just starting out.

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*Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with a complimentary eARC for review purposes*

As someone who really struggles to keep her plants healthy and happy this book is perfect.
This book includes descriptions of the most common house plants and goes into detail of what they need to thrive as well as information on how to identify what type of environment your house is and what plants are suitable for it.

The crafts look fun and I cannot wait to try them out

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Ok, this book is the coolest book on plants I've ever seen. It describes each common houseplant, how to love on it, and how to make little plant baby versions of your beloved houseplants. Past that, it describes DIY and home crafts you can do (many/all would be appropriate as a family project and done by kids of a certain age) for your plants. This is a really great book by someone starting out on their lifelong houseplant journey. Due to the beauty of the book, it could also be a gift for a more experienced houseplant parent. This would make a nice coffee table book (next to a houseplant of course).

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This is a well rounded book for the new plant parent. It provides basic care and recommendations for common beginner plants, as well as some interesting projects to try to show off your plant collection. The projects are easy and very Instagram worthy, especially the test tube propagation stations. I liked that this book went beyond my expectations and provided instructions for propagating your own plants a variety of ways, including air layering, which I don't see that commonly in beginner books. Overall, it provides information to those just starting their plant collection, and inspiration for others to progress their own knowledge of propagation and craftiness. It's definitely worth a look no matter what your knowledge level is.

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Houseplant Party by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf has some tips for what kind of plants to get as someone new to plants in their house, and then it has some projects for how you can elevate your plants, and make them more of a feature.

It has lots of information about looking after plants, such as certain plants only liking certain windows in the house, depending on which direction it faces, and which how to water plants.

It's a good first guide to plants, and will help you think about the way you care for them.  I found there were more projects than tips, but now that you've been forewarned, you can enjoy the book for what it is.

 Houseplant Party  was published on 4th August 2020, and is available to buy on  Amazon  and  Waterstones .  I’ve found a link to where you can search for  local bookshops , including independent!

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I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley, and to  Quatro Publishing Group  (the publishers) for this book.

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