What is the opposite of a green thumb? My family calls it a black thumb of death and I am the not-so-proud owner of one. There is no plant that I don't murder with the best of intentions and attention. Which is the worst part because I swear I think I'm taking excellent care of my plants even as they die before my eyes.
Enter Doctor Houseplant and his excellently explained and detailed descriptions of the different types of house plants and how to care for them. There is a lot of information on a small number of pages, but the conciseness needed to fit it all in only makes it easier to reference. You can look up plants you already own or figure out what plants to buy depending on the type of light, atmosphere, and temperature of your home. Then you get tips on how to care for the plant and how to problem solve when things aren't at their best. It really does make taking care of a plant seem foolproof.
The one thing that's keeping me from giving it the full five-star rating is that it includes the scientific names for plants and some of the more common monikers, but the nice people at my local hardware store (the only place nearby where I can get plants) do not speak plant and couldn't really help me with that. I was the weird person comparing plants to images on my phone as I tried to figure out if the plant before me was actually the plant I was looking for. I have no idea how this can be resolved, but it was something that I found cumbersome.
Now, I haven't had it long enough to actually vouch for how well it helps me in dealing with my black thumb, but it gave me the confidence to try being a plant mom once again. We'll see how it goes.

Happy thanks to NetGalley and Cool Springs Press for the read!

This houseplant guide book is straightforward and easy to navigate. I tend to kill plants and have been interested in learning more about what I do wrong. I feel this book would be very helpful to have for both new and old plant owners alike. Looking forward to purchasing it for myself and for other plant lovers in my life.

This is a fantastic guide to houseplants and how to care for them! It is a simple, easy to follow guide to keeping the most common houseplants alive and thriving. I also loved that the book covered plants that are kept outside but can be brought in during the winter months to care for them. There were also guides to help identify and treat common issues that the plants may experience. I just started getting into house plants and found this guide to be extremely useful!

Doctor Houseplant by William Davidson is a straightforward plant guide that provides a cheatsheet for some of the most popular houseplants. I have a monstera and jumped straight to the pages for that and found it to be beautiful and easy to read. The author provides ideal conditions for the light including light and posoition, temperature, watering, feeding, seasonal care, and soil. The author also outlines some common concerns including what overwatering looks like on the monstera which is commonly ignored online! Overall, this is a nice guide for a newbie and may also be a nice coffee table book!

Many thanks to the publisher Cool Springs Press and Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.

An informative, useful and richly illustrated guide to houseplants.
I fond it well researched, full of interesting information and it helped to improve how how manage some of my houseplants.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Doctor Houseplant is a very informative guide on how to take care of common houseplants. It is straight forward and filled with details on how to prevent issues and what to do when they do happen. This guide is also filled with stunningly beautiful pictures of each houseplant. It's a great book to have or to give for any plant lovers!

As someone who is not great with plants, this book was as enjoyable as it was helpful. With guides for 42 houseplants, including most common favorites and a few exotics for advanced houseplant fans, this will get you set up with proper care and maintenance of whatever you are growing. The troubleshooting guides help identify and treat common issues with each plant. Thanks to this book I was able to revive an ailing Peace Lily, find the perfect location for my Dieffenbachia and save a failing Begonia. The pictures are beautiful, the text concise and informative. This is a great reference for plant lovers.

This is a surprisingly thorough guide to taking care of 42 common (and not so common) houseplants and to troubleshooting what can go wrong with them. I was happily surprised to see a couple of plants that I use as houseplants during the cold months but are usually classified as annual garden plants, begonias and geraniums. I always bring mine inside and keep them blooming through the winter, but I almost never see them in houseplant books (I would have loved to see hibiscus featured in this one too, for that reason). All in all, it was very thorough and immensely helpful.

Great information, lots of photos, all around fantastic guide.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

This book would make a great reference guide, although maybe for the slightly more experienced plant owner than me! I'd have loved more upfront about how to choose plants, then the A-Z - which was a little intimidating given the use of latin names!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. Unfortunately, I do not have the capability to read it in the protected pdf format.

Most of the most common houseplants are covered in depth along with more general guidelines for healthy indoor plants. There are some types of houseplants where I thought the information was a bit generalized but nevertheless there are some interesting tips in every plant description. Every aspect is covered, fertilizing, propagating, seasonal care, etc. Very useful especially if you're a newbie.

So happy with another houseplant book. I have a nice collection of plants and as a city-girl, I'm always trying to make sure they stay alive and healthy, but busy days means some plants don't receive the proper love they should.. Doctor Houseplant has reminded me how to take care of the Anthurium, Heptapleurum, my dying fern, peperomia, my pilea that's already propagated two more plants. Turns out I've been over-watering slightly, and reading #DoctorHouseplant #NetGalley has helped me save them just in time.

Great information on many of the common houseplants. Very informative, great photographs and well laid out. Very helpful to me was the side column describing varieties of each plant.

Doctor Houseplant by William Davidson is full of well informed information about various houseplants. The setup of the book is easy to follow and read and the photos add to the whole book.

If you are longing for Instagram worthy houseplants, this book is an excellent visual guide to choosing and caring for popular houseplants. The emphasis is on style rather than ecology but important advice about plant care is part of each species' description. The photos are beach body model examples of each plant in spare, clean modern settings, designed to tempt the plant lover into getting "just one more."

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a surprisingly thorough book!

Organized alphabetically by latin names this book has information on 40-some of the most common house plants. There's information on how to plant them, how to feed and water them, common issues and how to trouble shoot them, and more!

There are beautiful pictures and lots of information on choosing and maintaining your plants.

Super clear with easy explanations. There are not so many indoor plants, but the most "famous" are all in the book.

Molto chiaro e con spiegazioni estremamente facili. Il numero delle piante da appartamento che vengono esaminate non é molto alto, ma quelle piú importanti ci sono tutte.

THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!

I’m very impressed with Doctor Houseplant, as an avid plant collector, this book is a fantastic resource for me and will be for a long time to come.

The first section of the book covers quite a large range of houseplants and in alphabetical order so it’s easy to find the plant you’re looking for. Each plant has listed their scientific name as well as their common name, a little bit about them, ideal conditions and common concerns all accompanied by lovely, clear photos.

The next section covers various topics including buying plants, watering/feeding, light/position and potting etc but my favourite part is ‘symptoms at a glance’. In this section you will be able to diagnose your plant based on what the leaf, stem, flower or just the plant as a whole looks like.

Doctor Houseplant is a great book for anyone with plants, regardless if you have 1 or 100+, I would definitely recommend.

Thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review

very informative. Learned a lot of info on my plants all in one book. This gave the information on care, problems and growth.Thank you

Doctor Houseplant is a great guide to houseplants. It's nicely structured and easy to read.
Something that I really liked was that for each plant (family) there's a section about common issues with the plant - pests, fungi, and other, and information on how the issue can be solved. The added pictures are very helpful as sometimes the explanations are just not enough to help you know what's up with your plant, when you don't have experience. Best of all - at the end of the book there's information of common issues for all and any plants, so even if you have something that's not mentioned in the book, there's still a good description of what to look out for in any plants you might be growing.
Also, all the presented plants were beautiful and now I really want to go and buy some more to further my collection.
I recommend this book for everyone that's still a novice in plant watching and everyone that's interested in trying their hand at having house plants.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.*